Installing Laminate Flooring Without Quarter Round

In this video i am showing how to install laminate flooring for the first time.

Installing laminate flooring without quarter round. 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. How to install laminate flooring. He may be trying to speed up the process of laying the floor yes you do need expansion room for the flooring to expand but between the space normally there where the sheetrock meets the wall and the baseboard it should be enough without the 1 4 round. Installing laminate flooring is a snap literally.

It can be installed over any other tightly bonded flooring making it ideal for retrofits. I had to be creative with the toilet supply line because it was mounted low but it worked out you can also see the thickness in that picture and that is installed over a floating laminate floor with 1 4 gap. 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. Install baseboards and molding remove the spacers around the border and install baseboards and quarter round molding covering the plastic moisture barrier on the wall and the gap between the wall and the flooring.

Most diyers can complete laminate floor installation in one day. A laminate floor is a floating floor meaning it is not fastened directly to the subfloor.