Tongue Or Groove Against Wall Floor Laminate

I m installing a click floating floor mono sierra solid q 12mm and i ve encountered a persistent issue.

Tongue or groove against wall floor laminate.

I hope this information shall be of benefit to you and good luck with the project. Install the planks with the groove edge facing up. So if your room is 100 sq. If you mix the two up and start with the groove side you will have difficulty completing the installation because you will essentially be.

Once your floor is down you can lay out and create a custom made threshold to jump or sink to that existing tile or laminate floor surface. Each floor is different but before you leave the home center make sure you have a couple of pieces of 1 by 6 of the same wood species as your floor. The one with the overlap is the tongue edge. This should face down.

Which side is the tongue which the groove and which goes first during installation the tongue is the side that you will want to place against the wall as you start your laminate flooring installation. In fact laminate flooring can be installed in almost every room in your home including kitchens since it doesn t have to be glued down and doesn t involve grout or mortar. Set it on the 2 by 4 and press it against the tape. Tongue and groove flooring solves the pesky problems such as shrinking warping and working loose commonly experienced by nailing planks to floor joists.

The tongue and groove are important because they keep your flooring locked together. Sometimes one end of a floor tile panel will click into the previous one but the other end won t. A moisture barrier pad 3. Cut the final piece as needed on your miter saw leaving a 1 4 inch expansion gap.

A damaged tongue and groove on laminate flooring can cause improper installation or instability. It s in the groove but either the far left or far right end won t click into the top panel. When installing be patient with the tongue and groove. Most diyers can complete laminate floor installation in one day.

Lay your first course of tongue and groove laminate floorboards down along the starting wall with the groove side facing the wall. Floating means that it isn t attached to the floor beneath in any way. If you were installing a hardwood floor you would always place the groove against the wall so the floor nailing gun would be able to fire the nails into the tongue. Laminate of your choice this is tongue and groove floating laminate flooring.

Planks can be cut with a hand saw circular saw or flooring cutter and most laminate flooring comes in planks that simply snap together with a tongue. Clip the boards together end to end. After hang the first plank with its end 1 4 inch from the edge of the wall. When you buy laminate expect that ten percent will end up being wasted by cutting and trimming.

Just to be safe.