How to make the floor to be reliable, beautiful, easy in laying and at the same time it cost? These seemingly incompatible qualities are combined in laminate. Because it flooring Used more and more. However, the floor serve for a long time, you just need to know the fineness of the technology. For example, before leaving the laminate, it is necessary to check how even reason. The maximum allowable deviation is not more than 1-2 mm per meter of the surface. Only with this condition it will lie tightly, will not be fed and creaked. If the differences are more, maybe even the lock breaks or crack the board.
If the base has irregularities, the dimensions of which exceed the permissible, it must be aligned. For cement floors, everything is simple - an aligning screed is poured. Raise laminate begin after the solution will drop at least 50% of the strength.
If the old wooden floor serves as a base, it is necessary to remove it, then make a full cement floor, with all the necessary layers (submet, hydro and heat insulation, reinforcing belt and tie). It is possible to build a heating system in this floor, and it is already on the warm floor to carry out an outdoor coating. Only in this case it is necessary to use special varieties of laminate, which are well tolerated heating. The cost of such a floor is high, and there is a lot of time on its device. Therefore, it is not always done. If the lags and boards are not damaged, you can align the wooden floor of the plywood, and on it already laying the laminate.
When aligning the wooden floor, all strongly protruding fragments are shying with a planer or with a cycle, the cracks close up with putty. On the prepared old wooden floor laid plywood sheets (it is used more often, although you can put any sheet material with a flat surface). They are fixed with self-draws to the floor: around the perimeter after 15 cm, in the middle of a checkerboard order.
Sheets are shifted - they should not coincide (see the photo below). So more uniformly transmitted load. Another point is between sheets. Leave some gaps - they should not be driven close to each other. Wood changes dimensions depending on humidity and temperature. And these gaps will give the necessary freedom to not arise "humps" and distortion.
Laying plywood on the wooden floor under laminate is a common way to prepare the base during repairs. If the wood was not damaged, and the plywood was laid smoothly, does not "play" and does not bend, such a base serves years
On the smooth and clean base first lay the substrate. It grows those irregularities in 1-2 mm, which are permissible and makes the floor less "noisy." It serves for depreciation and better redistribution of the load.
The substrate makes several types:
Cork is the best, but also the most expensive kind of substrate. Foil - slightly cheaper, and its plus - it is suitable for heated floors
Foamed polystyrene - secondary quality and price
The substrate under the laminate is rolled (unfolded) along the wall with which laying will begin. Long it should block the entire floor from the wall - to the wall. The links of the joints are combined tight, for convenience they are sick of scotch. Sometimes the panels fix the brackets from the construction stapler. It is faster, but the brackets are not very good - they can rub about the board and make an unpleasant sound. The next layer is spread as needed - immediately to put the entire floor is not necessary: \u200b\u200bit is better not to walk on the substrate.
In which direction to lay a laminate with your own hands? There are no strict rules, but there are recommendations. To smaller the joints along the boards, the direction of light should go along the board. It turns out beautifully if you lay the coating at an angle. But this method is more complicated and waste obtained more. You can lay and across the light - this is also practiced, and nothing, except for more visual seams, does not threaten.
Laying of laminate relative to the window: elements location scheme
The main rule that needs to be observed during laminate flooring is the shuttle offset. The minimum transverse seam should be at a distance of 40 cm from the other. So the strength of the floor cover will be greater: the boards under load will not disperse.
The minimum distance between the seams in the adjacent rows is 40 cm
Laminate laying scheme should be developed taking into account this rule. The simplest for independent execution is the offset of half the board. Then every odd row begins with the whole, and every even - from halves (or vice versa).
If the length of one element exceeds 1.2 m, then the second row can be shifted to 1/3, the third on 2/3 of the length (as in the photo above). It turns out a kind of "ladder". In some types of laminate (expensive), the minimum bums offset are significantly less - can be 15 cm. This is indicated on the package or in the accompanying instruction.
You can put the laminate with "Lestenka", only to observe the minimum allowable seam offset. Right - laying scheme with high board length and low displacement
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Stacking technology is the same: there are only some features when connecting elements depending on the locks. The procedure will be like this:
If the geometry of the room is correct, no difficulties. If there are skews - you have to trim. Issues may arise when finishing the threshold: the board near the jambs is cut not exactly, but on the arc, with the preservation of the gap of 10-15 mm. Why on the arc? So, under the door platband, any form will not be holes.
Laminate laying technology depends on which castles on your floor covering. They make two species - "Click" (Click) and Lok (Lock). You do not confuse, because the system is written on the packaging of each pack, and the pictograms explaining the principle of laying on many many.
When using the locks "Click" it is more convenient to collect a plank one by one. The system is named so due to the characteristic click, which is heard when the spike is entry into the groove. With such a system, first connect the side locks, then longitudinal. This happens like this:
How to raise a laminate with the lock "Click", see the video.
The lock should be inserted on the side and the assembly method is different. It will take a piece of laminate with a spike and light hammer (rubber cizyanka). The boards are folded on the floor, correct that they lay exactly one relative to the other. Move the spike to be close to the groove, insert the laminate cut from the other side and tap it with a hammer, achieving a connection.
How to bed laminate with the Lok system
The method is also simple, but requires caution: the hammer can be too hard to hit and break the castle. Then you have to use another element.
With this method, it is more convenient to drain the laminate first collecting individual rows, and then connect them. This is schematically displayed in the photo below.
So it is more convenient to lay the laminate with your own hands with the Lok system
For more information about this method, see the video. There is no sound row, but everything is clear.
The laminate laying methods described above can be made almost sealed, in any case a lot to reduce the amount of water that can get into the surmise space. For this use special glue. They are missing the spikes of stacked boards. It preserves its elasticity for 10 minutes, therefore apply adhesive immediately before installation.
The disadvantage of such technology is that the coating becomes almost monolithic. If you need to replace one or more boards, it will not work.
You can cut the boards of laminate:
In order for the sink on the front surface, burrs did not form, the "face" she should lie up. In order for cuts to be even, the guides are ruler (strips) from metal or wood. When using hacksaw, the ruler should not give the opportunity to "climb" on the desired half.
When cutting across it is more convenient to use the coal. It is pressed to the long side, the second serves as a guide.
Laminate laminate laminate with solid flooring throughout the apartment looks good and aesthetic. Laying the laminate for the formation of a single floor is not a simple task that requires high quality materials, skill and professionalism of the stacker and compliance with all features.
Recall that the laminate is classified depending on the level of strength, wear resistance. The highest strength is inherent in coatings 31, 32, 33 and 34 classes. When laying a laminated coating with thresholds between the rooms it is possible to select various material strength classes separately for each room, according to the load.
When laying a laminate without thresholds, its class is chosen at the maximum load of some room in the apartment and is applied throughout the apartment. Those. To mount laminate without thresholds, you should choose a coating not lower than 33 class of strength.
When laying a laminate without thresholds, the substrate must first be charged. The optimal thickness of the substrate is 3 mm.
Installing the laminated coating immediately in several rooms with solid floor, without breaks in doorwayWe will call "laying without thresholds." The technology has the goal to achieve visual expansion of space and decorativeness. Such a designer technique creates the effect of a single space, space.
It is impossible not to remind and not warns that manufacturers of laminated coatings do not recommend Implement such a solid laying of laminated material on a large area. This is explained by this property of laminated panels to change linear dimensions with a change in humidity and room temperature.
With an increase in air humidity, for example, in the fall, laminate, having the ability to absorb in certain amounts of moisture, does it and starts expanding. To do this, when installing the coating and leave the gaps of 8-10 mm in size, allowing these extensions, as a result, the floor retains its own type and integrity, without swelling and the screen of its panels.
During the heating season, a reverse process is observed. Laminate slightly reduces the dimensions from lowering the moisture content in the air. If errors were made when installing the floor coating, non-compliance with the technology - gaps may appear between the panels, the condition and functionality of the locks are deteriorating.
The prerequisite condition for impeccable laminate installation is a special creation of a deformation seam separating some part of the coating from the rest of the floor. According to the instructions, the maximum permissible area of \u200b\u200bthe solid flooring of the laminated coating cannot exceed 50-100 square meters, the number is determined for each specific material. For example, for the Belgian coating, the size of the whole canvase for the floor is allowed: 10 m length, the width is also 10 m. Then ten meters of length and width should leave the gap to compensate for changes in the physical size of the material. For other laminated panels, dimensions can be in smaller limits with actually compile: length 8 m, width 6 m, and less. For them, the clearances are more often required.
How to find out exactly the maximum area of \u200b\u200blaminate without thresholds allowed for laying in the whole apartment? The answer to this question and many others relating to the specific laminate, you will find in the instructions attached to each package of panels.
Solid laying of laminate in doorway
Outcome: Coating manufacturers do not recommend laying the laminate with a solid floor without the use of thresholds. It is explained by this high probability of deformation of the coating under the "walking" of the sizes, the consequence of which there may be a swift of the material, cracking, creak. Professionals specialists correctly calculate the permissible parameters of the material and laminate the laminate with a single web without thresholds.
First, it is necessary to properly prepare the basis, making it the surface as possible aligned, smooth and dry. Even small irregularities of height should be corrected in advance. For alignment, a thin layer of bulk sex can be used, covers plywood sheets, etc. Concrete screed It is possible to fine with the grinding machine, it will make the base surface perfectly smooth. Only then can be planned and start laying laminated sex.
We advise first to draw on paper layout of premises in the apartment and distribute the location of the panels, withstanding the size on the scale. It greatly simplifies the styling process and reduce the amount of waste during the cutting of the material.
Laminate is laid in the direction of movement For flooring panels with a solid cloth in the place of the doorway apply the principle brick masonryWhen the next row goes with a displacement of about a quarter from the size of the board relative to the previous series. The most correct will be the location of the panels in the direction of movement, which will reduce the load on their joints in the form of abrasion. Installation of the coating should be started with a larger room, from the angle from the window side in the direction of the door.
In the doorway, the laminate is placed in the same method. The floor is brought to door box, to a dense adjustment to the platband.
Experts consider it right to install the door frame after flooring flooring. If it is difficult to do, then pushing the accessories to bring the lamel under the platband. Then several long, uncircumcised boards are laid out in the center of the passage, cut-off from the sides. Do not forget about the gaps along the walls.
When the laminate laying is directed across the passage through the doorway, the tropped panels in the passage are stacked with a standard method and fixed with a lock compound with the main web. It is good to apply a gel for handling the joints to increase sealing.
Laying laminate diagonally without thresholds Video: Laying of laminate with one blade in one direction
If you compare which method of laying the laminated floor is preferable - using thresholds or without them, then the answer is definitely with the threshings. In the case of the categorical reluctance of the installation of thresholds, profiles to the laminate, you should find experienced specialists who are capable of performing laminate laying with a solid floor without thresholds.
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of the method.
As we see, the disadvantages of the stubborn laying are more than advantages.
It should take into account the huge variety of profiles, thresholds for placing the joints of floor surfaces. They are distinguished by materials, forms, decor and colors, fasteners:
From above, the threshold is covered with a decorative layer, it makes it possible to accurately choose the product to the connecting surfaces in color.
Railings between tiles and laminate multi-level
The profile consists of the foundation and decorative nozzle. Can dock surfaces at different levels. The variety of forms and wide range of shades of the profile contribute to its frequent use. 
Cork compensator It finds a frequent use in the design of the connection of the tile and laminate without a clad, the joint between laminate and laminate without a napkin is in the same level. Provides a change in the size of the laminated product without clearance. Docking on the line is not more than 6 m. From above, the compensator can be painted using color sealant. 
Note that the use of a cork compensator for the joint of two surfaces unambiguously requires that the surfaces are strictly in the same level.
Conclusion
Now you know how to lay a laminate with a solid floor without thresholds, what features and disadvantages are inherent in this method, you know what are the thresholds for laminate and tiles, what are the thresholds on the floor for laminate, you know several types of mounting thresholds.
It remains to embody your knowledge, desires and skills in the design of your sex. We wish you success and excellent results!
Located with a solid carpet throughout the apartment laminate looks aesthetic and kindly. Move it comfortably. The absence of thresholds simplifies the cleaning process. But is everything so unequivocal? In this article, we consider the different sides of this issue. We will tell under what conditions the floor laying without thresholds makes it possible to enjoy its advantages, and at what can the problems can create.
To obtain the desired effect from laying laminate without thresholds throughout the apartment, compliance with some mandatory requirements. Their violation is fraught negative consequenceswhich are able to outweigh the resulting attractiveness and comfort as a result of this method.
It should be noted that all manufacturers of laminate definitely recommend performing work with a breakdown of the canvas in the doorways. When flooring with a large area, it is necessary to make deformation seams that make it possible to compensate for the processes of seasonal dice expansion.
Multilayer floor coatings are a derived product of wood, which preserves its property to absorb moisture from the air and with direct contact. In periods of wet weather, air temperature fluctuations, with water bays, such processes inevitably lead to the physical expansion of the dies. Violation of recommendations on their laying will result in the swelling of the coating, the screens or the appearance of the gaps between the ds. This may worsen the strength of the locking clutch or lead to the dice dropping out. Manufacturers of German and Belgian products are called 100 m2 (or room 10 by 10 meters), as the maximum solid floor area for performing a single carpet. For products manufactured on Russian lines, this area is 48 m2 (or room 8 by 6 meters).
The risk of laminate seamless flooring on a large area or throughout the apartment / house can only take on experienced masters, OK knowing parameters Physical expansion of material, its laying technology and capable of improvinely perform work in specific conditions. The first condition is to prepare the perfect foundation for further work. At the same time, it is better to exclude even permissible producer of surface level fluctuations.
IMPORTANT. Floor base should be perfectly even.
Such an effect is achieved different waysDepending on the leveling of which base is performed. It can be:
Concrete floor alignment is allowed using a mosaic-grinding machine.
Information is relatively extremely permissible area to be laminated without thresholds, is contained in the instructions placed on the liners in packs with dies. There also indicates the parameters of the permissible humidity of the base and other recommendations regarding the installation of the material.
IMPORTANT. The entire surface of the base for installation should be removed in zero. After that, it leads to an ideal clear state.
Performance of flooring in two or more rooms by one carpet without a threshold requires professional knowledge and skills. The implementation of such works by non-professional is possible only after careful preparation.
Laminate is classified by level of strength. A higher class will provide the appropriate coating quality and a long service life. When choosing, you should pay attention to the density of the dice connection and the quality of the connections. Choosing a material of the material for flooring without thresholds, focus on the most intensely operated room. Otherwise, the coating will be in disrepair noticeably earlier than in others. This will force earlier to replace the entire surface covered with one carpet.
The fulfillment of flooring in a private house will require a hydro and heat insulating layer device, which are stacked by the direction of laminate installation. The substrate is performed with an overlap about 10 cm.
IMPORTANT. Before the start of work, the laminate should be in the same room at least 2 days. Do not install when high humidity. Its level should be the permissible specified in the instructions for the material.
In places of adjustment to walls, door frame, pipes or other objects, be sure to leave technological gaps.
Professionals and manufacturers give the advantage of laminate flooring with thresholds. It is resorted to the execution of work without thresholds in cases where the threshold profiles do not fit into the design project of the apartment or at home or they are not categorically perceived by the customer.
We list the main advantages and disadvantages of the method without thresholds:
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disadvantages |
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Great view. The effect of a single space. |
Violation of manufacturers instructions, which eliminates their warranty obligations. |
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Comfortably move. |
Damage to one lamellae forces the replacement of the coating is not in the same room, but in the entire apartment. |
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Simplifies cleaning. |
High likelihood of coating. |
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The need for professional laying, and not fulfilling it with their own hands. |
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The cost of the work is higher in comparison with the installation with the thresholds. |
From the table you can see that flooring without thresholds has more minuses than pluses. In addition, manufacturers of decorative joints offer a rich assortment with finishing under stone, wood and other materials of various shades and forms. With their help, you can create smooth joints, rounded and more complex forms.
For the rational consumption of material, it is desirable to make accurate measurements and perform scaled laying of the dice on paper, taking into account the direction of their laying. Starting work follows from the wall with a window in the largest room and move towards the exit.
Further operations are produced in such a sequence:
the first row dies need to cut the lock;
on the perimeter of the room, the injected wedges or homemade strips of ≈ 12 mm wide for creating a technological gap for the expansion of the dies without extinguishing (they are removed at the end of the work);
IMPORTANT: If the pre-laying of the first row shows that the last lamellas must be cut more than two-thirds, performing one third of the length of the first in a row of lamella.
after laying the first row, all subsequent rows are mounted with a shift on 1/3 or 1/2 of the lamella (across the area equally).
Increase the technological gap to avoid the coating should not be avoiding, as it leads to the formation of the slots between the slats.
Laying the laminate in the doorway without a threshold between rooms will require special attention and training. Professionals believe that the flooring must be mounted before installing the door frame.In this case, the laminate is trimmed in the form of a doorway. If the door is already installed, you must remove door leaf, And in the door frame, perform propyl, in which the lamel will start. Propyl is made with the calculation so that there is no pressure on the laminate, the gap should be ≈ 10 mm. To do this, there are lamella with a substrate next to the door frame on the draft floor, mark the horizontal line (taking into account the gap), according to which the propyl is then performed. After installing all the lamellas, the plinth is installed. If the room with a laminate is adjacent to the kitchen, in which the tile, connecting with the tile of the dice, must be cut as accurately as much as possible, and the junction to lure a special grout.
The area of \u200b\u200bmore than 120 square meters is not recommended to cover the area of \u200b\u200blaminate without joints throughout the apartment is not recommended due to the fact that the chance of swelling the coating will be very high.
First of all, you need to prepare the surface on which the laminate will be laid. It should be perfectly smooth height difference on it should not exceed three centimeters of depressions and heights must be sharpened and cleaned. Since laminate laying will be without junctions throughout the apartment you need to immediately calculate the height of the doors between the rooms. It will need to be corrected, so that the door would be freely opened and closed when the distance between it and the floor is near a centimeter.
To work with laminate, you will need only a few tools:
Do not buy specialized saws, measuring instruments and electrical appliances for laminate. Most of these are advertising tricks or simply unnecessary functional.
And of course you need to choose a laminate that look to share on:
Each of them varies at a price and purpose right for specific types of premises and about the choice of one or another laminate should be consulted with the seller.
It is very important to make sure that the humidity in the rooms where the laminate will be laid, will not exceed the material permissible. Otherwise, the material, hidden, will deform and swell.
If you are going to lay the dies on a draft base from wooden boards, then do not be lazy and check each of them. Digitized and deformed boards will definitely replace. If among them there are boards with cracks, do not doubt, and replace them and that the tree is neither. Do not forget that the laminate on such a base is in the same direction as the boards.
Based on cement screed Or just floor need to put a substrate. As a rule, it is foamed polyethylene or cork material. Such a substrate is needed not only for insulation and noise insulation, but also to protect the flooring from the deformation, which will significantly extend the service life. If you have difficulty finding suitable material For the substrate, you can take a relief cardboard and decompose into several layers, scratch well. The thickness of the substrate should be only 2 - 4 millimeters.
Do not think to use the old carpet with a high pile or carpet as a draft base. Such a basis though will not need a substrate, but it will be too soft.
As a rule, the base of the dice is made of wood. This means that when moisture gets, they can expand. Therefore, it will be necessary to leave technical clearances along the walls of 5 - 10 millimeters. To make such gaps and not be distracted by constant adjustment of the irregularities of already laid dies between the wall and laminate insert plastic plugs, and after the installation is simply removed.
When preparation for the upcoming laying is complete, you will need to choose the appropriate option to lay the laminate without jets throughout the apartment. There are two ways with their advantages and disadvantages.
The first option used to be very common, as it did not have a worthy competitor. This is a variant in which each placed dice is attached to the previous shield with glue. Thanks to this, the cracks in the laminate become hermetic, which makes it protected in front of moisture and dust. For him, moisture-proof Fiberboard is perfect as the basis, since then the "floating" floor will not give deformations. But such a floor cannot be dismantled or correcting even the most insignificant error committed during installation.
The second option is the so-called "Castle". It is convenient and practical, but more expensive, since the panels are equipped with snagging profiles. Using it you will have a huge space for exact fit Floor, which will help make it much easier to lay the dice, in the doorway, avoiding the junctions. Also a lot of laminate made of a wide variety of materials is made with locks, which allow putting it in any direction. I am glad that, if necessary, the entire floor or part of it can be easily disassembled, and the installation itself occurs much faster than in the case of glue masonry.
First you need to remember hard to remember what more squareon which the laying is made the greater the chance of swelling of the floor. In order to avoid this to avoid between dies and walls, pipes, corners of rooms, spokes from the floor must be performed. Try to make them in 1 - 1.5 centimeters. After laying, such gaps are easily hidden using a plinth, which is attached to the wall and in no case to the floor.
Spend the laying only in dry warm rooms with the expectation that you put all the laminate in one approach to avoid the deformation of the surface of the laminate.
In the doorways, the fit should be done very carefully considering not only the indentation from the jamb but also the fact that in the films it will be necessary to cut out the excavations on the fact that they immediately go to the next room. With incorrect fit, all indents for one room will be an interference in order to make such in the following.
If yours designer solution It implies the docking of the laminate with another coating within the room, then you would skillfully close the gap between the materials fit artificial cork. Its applied to very much reminds mounting foam. From the pistol, it fills the space, then, after frozen, cut off excess. It is not amenable to rotting and thanks to its properties can and shrink and stretch, which will prevent the deformation of the laminate and the material bordering it.
Properly performed laying of laminate without junctions throughout your apartment, a single web will make your gender beautiful, durable and reliable. The most important thing is not to make mistakes when laying and take into account the nuances of the installation in complex places.
