Pergo Laminate Flooring Tidewater Oak

Pergo Laminate Flooring Tidewater Oak - Today I'm gonna tell you a little bit about how to install laminate flooring. Now first, before we start, I do want to caution you to please read the instructions for your individual product that you purchased. Every Laminate manufacturer does differ slightly in their installation instructions. This is not a one size fits all for all installation techniques, but this is probably the most common installation technique and installation method. The type of installation that we're going to be doing on this floor is what's called an angle angle locking system. First what you want to do is to go up against your wall - we have a makeshift room set up here  up against the wall or any vertical surface in your field. You're going to want to leave a three-eighths inch gap between the product and the wall. Laminate is a “floating floor” therefore it does need the room around the perimeter to float and to move. The best way to keep that three-eighths inch standard width is to use spacers.

You can buy the spacers from us. We sell an install kit with spacers, a tapping block, and a pull bar for ten dollars. You can buy them locally or, is pergo laminate flooring water resistant depending on the thickness of your laminate, you could even cut your laminate into strips, a scrap piece, and you could use that all the way around your room. So first thing is that you want to use spacers, and you want them placed all around your room. Now we have all of our spacers placed along our first wall and along the second and third walls, the sidewalls, (let's pretend they go all the way down to the end of the room). What you will do is you'll lay your room you'll come back and pull these spacers back up and then that gap gets hidden or covered by your quarter round, or wall base, or whatever transitions you use – we’ll discuss that in a later video. The product that we're going to use for demonstration purposes here is one of our new Elite Supreme Click click together vinyl plank products. It's not a laminate product, but it goes down in the exact same way and it's  I wanted to show off the new one of the new colors, so that you could see it. You want to start by putting your first board in what's actually the top left-hand corner of your room.

So you'll actually be on this side installing this while you get your first few rows in, and then you're gonna want to turn your body put your weight on the product you’ve already laid, and move out into your room and into your field. Pergo american cottage tidewater oak laminate flooring so you lay the first board putting it snug up against the spacers on both sides. In angle angle locking system, in the first row, you angle in your end joints to where the corners line up and touch, and then you just lay it flat. On your first row all you will do is end joints, and you'll continue all the way down to the end of the row, where of course you will need to measure and cut your piece to fit for the last piece of the row, but still continuing to only butt the end joints. Line up your corners, and lay them down flat. That goes all the way to these set of spacers. Now, the way to have the least amount of waste possible is typically when you cut your last piece in a row what falls off of that piece  can be your first piece in your second row. So you come down and use that cut off piece down as your first piece in the second row. Now you always need to make sure in a floating floor that from row to row your end joints are always a minimum of eight inches apart. You don't want these end joints on top of each other like this.