Pergo Laminate Flooring Accessories

Pergo Laminate Flooring Accessories - Today we're going to be talking about an installation method of laminate flooring called Drop And Lock. Now, as you probably know, there are different ways to install laminate flooring. Every manufacturer has their own license for a lock system or a click system so ALWAYS BE SURE TO READ THE INSERT THAT COMES IN THE BOX with the flooring you purchased before attempting to install any flooring. The one that we're going to talk about today is Drop & Lock. The two most popular install methods, or click methods, are "Drop and Lock" and "Angle Angle". We've already done a video on Angle Angle installation. Today we're going to be demonstrating the Drop & Lock installation. So let's get started with one of our drop and lock products. The first thing you'll want to do is put your spacers all along the wall every 18 inches to two feet or so, and down your side walls as well. On a Drop and Lock flooring installation, just as with an Angle Angle, you have two sides to your boards. You have a groove side, which is kind of a lowered lip, and then you have a tongue side. You install this flooring with the tongue side against your wall, and your groove side out into your field, out into your install area. You're going to be up against your spacers on the side wall, and your spacers on your back wall.

There are two common mistakes people often make when installing Drop & Lock flooring, but they're easy to correct, pergo laminate flooring 4 in 1 door profile and then the rest of your install job should be a breeze. Let's look at the two common mistakes real quickly. The first - this is your starting wall. This is the groove side of the board. This needs to be out into your field, out into your room, and the tongue side needs to be up against your starting wall. Often people reverse that. They put the groove against the wall, and the tongue into the field. Makes everything backwards, very difficult to install, but very common mistake and very easy to fix, because all you do is you turn it around. But make sure that lower lip, that groove side that's out, is facing into your field, and then this tongue side is facing towards the wall. That's the first common mistake people make. Okay, so we have our first board installed, laying up against, or sitting up against, the spacers on both sides. To continue out and finish our first row, all we do is we line up the end joints, and simply place the second board over top of the first, line up the end joints, make sure everything is tight against the spacers, and continue all the way to the end of the first row.

Now these pieces are not completely locked together. That's one of the tricks that most people don't know about the Drop & Lock system. When you put the end joints together, pergo accessories uk this seam is not fully installed until you do your next row and this joint is covered. So it takes the next row to fully engage and fully lock in the row behind it. So we have our first row done all the way to the end of our wall, and always remember that, with Drop & Lock flooring, just like with Angle Angle, whatever cuts off over here usually is a good sized piece (and you need to measure it. It needs to be at least eight inches long) is usually a good sized piece to come over and start your second row with, because, with Drop & Lock, just like with Angle Angle, you will want your end joints, or your end seams, to be a minimum of eight inches apart. So you need to make sure that that first piece in the second row has a board length that will give you at least an eight inch stagger between rows. So, to start the second row, the first piece of the second row goes in at a slight angle. You'll see that it can slide very easily. Slide it all the way down to the end, up against a spacer, and then rock it into place. If necessary, you can tap the face with the palm of your hand. Now the second piece in the second row, you start with the side seam, the long seam. It, too, will slide at a slight angle. You do need to be careful to hold this seam, this joint, together, because it's not engaged yet. You slide this in all the way over to the first piece, to where it's basically laying right on top of the end joints, and then you push that down into place. Again, if necessary, palm of your hand across the board.