Installing Lifeproof Vinyl Flooring Transition Pieces

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Installing lifeproof vinyl flooring transition pieces. Floating floors will expand and contract with changes in the interior home climate. Lifeproof vinyl flooring features an innovative wear layer made to resist scratches for long lasting beauty. If the two. How to install a floor transition piece in a doorway.

Installing the flooring too tight to the transition molding floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects. To find just the right product ask or search for them by flooring type such as tile transition strips or wood transition strips. Shaped like a t they are used between two hard surfaces of the same height. Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions.

When you change from one flooring to another in a doorway you usually need a transition strip to form the border between them. I have seen many people who use a scrap piece of flooring to tap the pieces in to place. To install them you simply cut the metal brackets that come with it to the size you need and screw them into the sub floor. A tapping block is super cheap buy one we found that it was much easier to get a tight seal when locking the planks in lengthwise when we lined a piece of scrap wood up along the back of the tapping.

Use a broom a rubber mallet a tapping block and a piece of scrap wood. It floats over your existing floor and can be used to cover wood a concrete subfloor or existing vinyl flooring planks. It made the floor just slightly taller so this reducer transition piece smooths out that height difference. Then cut the vinyl piece to size and snap it into the metal bracket.