How correctly to lay linoleum?

The theme of how to lay linoleum, does not cease to be relevant, because this flooring has all the necessary qualities that allow you to have a warm and externally attractive floor in the house.

Having thoroughly studied the characteristics that linoleum has received in production, it is possible to choose suitable products for laying flooring in the kitchen, in the bedroom and even in the bathroom where the humidity level is constantly high.

In the process of repairing a room in the house, the question is how to properly lay linoleum on top of the old one, and whether it can be done.

This problem usually occurs when the old cover can not be carefully removed from the base with its own hands, or the owner of the house wishes to make the floor warmer by increasing its thermal insulation properties.

Therefore, consideration of this issue should be given time.

How to lay a new linoleum on top of the old one?

Before you lay a new linoleum over the old coating, you need to carry out restoration work.

But here it is worth to clarify, if the old linoleum has zazhevannye zone, a lot of bends and ragged places, then repair of such coverage will not be expensive. Therefore, it is better to completely remove it yourself.

First of all, we wipe the old floors in the apartment with a damp cloth, then proceed to the surface investigation.

All the defects of the old linoleum circle in pencil, or more precisely, draw a rectangle around the damaged areas.

Use a sharp knife and ruler to cut the damage. Instead of them we paste pieces of a new linoleum.

If in some places on the old coating the seams have parted and sealed, they are put in order with the help of a special sealant.

After the repair work, the floor surface is again wiped, after it dries up, the new linoleum is laid.

Linoleum spread over the room and adjusted to the desired size, in this position is left for a day.

If there are bends on the product, they must be leveled, having packed something heavy, you can stack a book. During the day, the material will be completely disposed of and will get used to room temperature.

On the second day, the linoleum is held by a roller and fixed skirting boards, this is provided that the area of ​​the selected premises of the house is no more than 10 square meters.

Otherwise, the product needs to be laid using double-sided adhesive tape:

• One edge of the linoleum is wrapped in half, thereby freeing the surface of the base;
• On the floor along the room we paste an adhesive tape with an indentation of 50 cm. The last strip is applied near the wall;
• Carefully remove the top layer of the adhesive tape and put linoleum on it, immediately pass over the surface with a roller;
• The other half of the product must be stitched in the same way. We finish the work by installing skirting boards.

The new flooring can be laid on the old floor also with adhesive compound. This technology is an excellent option if the apartment has rooms of more than 20 square meters.

To lay linoleum on the glue, it is necessary to wrap a part of the material and to work with glue first one side of the floor, then the second.

The material is smoothed with a roller, the plinth is mounted only on the second day.

Thus, you can lay a new linoleum in any room of the house, for example, in the kitchen, bedroom or bathroom.

But as in the bathroom, as well as in the kitchen, there is a high humidity, products for them must be chosen with special characteristics.

More details about the possibility of installing an old deck on the surface of a new one, the following video story will tell.

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What linoleum to put in the kitchen?

Floor covering, which can be laid in the kitchen, should have a high index of strength and durability.

In addition, any traces of contamination should be easily removed from its surface, and the material could be characterized as environmentally safe.

Kitchen is the premise of a house where food is prepared and dishes are washed daily, so one more important requirement for flooring material, like moisture resistance, can not be ignored.

Of the existing varieties of linoleum is better to put in the kitchen commercial and semi-commercial type of products.

Household linoleum in this case in the kitchen is not recommended for laying, due to poor technical characteristics and short service life, which is from 1 to 3 years.

Commercial linoleum has a limited choice of textures and high cost, so in the kitchen it will be expensive to lay it.

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The semi-commercial product type remains, the structure of which combines the advantages of the two above-mentioned materials.

At the same time semi-commercial linoleum has an acceptable price and a service life of about 10 years.

What linoleum to put in the bathroom?

The characteristics of the bathroom flooring completely correspond to the characteristics of the flooring used in the kitchen, as both rooms regularly generate steam and water.

Based on this, we can conclude that you can not put ordinary cheap linoleum in the bathroom.

The finishing coat for a bathroom floor is better to choose from a homogeneous group. The differences of this product are in its structure, which is a monolithic layer.

In addition, in the production process, the pattern is introduced into the entire thickness of the product, and not applied to the surface, as in the manufacture of other types of linoleum.

The absence of the felt layer on the underside of the product, excludes the absorption of moisture by the material, thereby preventing the formation of a mold and mildew under the floor covering in the bathroom.

There is nothing complicated about how to put linoleum of this type. In the bathroom lay a homogeneous flooring with your own hands better with a minimum number of seams and with a turn on the walls.

Add the details of the above material will allow the following video.

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What linoleum to make in the bedroom?

Due to the fact that the bedroom has a small mechanical load on the floor and a constantly comfortable climate, flooring is easy to choose.

Optimum option will be a soft and springy linoleum, executed on a foamy basis.

When choosing a material, one should not lose sight of its ecological properties, on the floor in the bedroom it is best to put natural products, including laminate.

But as the cost of them is quite high, you can choose a household or inexpensive semi-commercial material with a suitable texture.

Although the natural material significantly exceeds the semi-commercial linoleum by the wear resistance class.

At the same time, the semi-commercial type is much stronger than the household type, which means it has a longer service life.

Why do I need a linoleum underlay?

If you decide to completely dismantle the old coating, then you need to choose a substrate for a new linoleum, in order to make the base more even and warm.

Various substrates can be used as substrates, among them sheets of fiberboard.

Substrate from fiberboard will allow to carry out leveling of the base and slightly increase its thermal insulation characteristics.

Basically, a fiberboard substrate is used when it is necessary to hide fine deformations of a wooden floor, while sheets of fiberboard with a thickness of 8 to 12 mm are taken.

For the purpose of leveling and simultaneous insulation of concrete base by own hands, the substrate made of fiberboard is not recommended.

Instead it is better to use such a heat-insulating material as expanded polystyrene to make the floor really warm.

Learn more about the technology of the substrate device, the following video will allow.

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Is it possible to lay linoleum on the warm floor?

The "warm floor" system must have a finish coating that meets several stringent requirements, so some materials can not be laid as a floor surface.

If you decide to put linoleum on top of a warm floor, do not ignore the following rule: "warm floor" should not heat the surface over 30 °, it's the maximum temperature.

If you do not follow this rule, then the surface finish will change color over time and deform. In addition, from linoleum will start to be released harmful substances for health.

The most optimal option for linoleum is the "warm floor" system in the form of a film heating product.

But from the existing varieties of linoleum it is difficult to choose the right material for it.

At the moment the market offers five main types:

• natural;
• rubber;
• alkyd;
• polyvinyl chloride;
• nitrocellulose.

From the list above the most suitable product is natural material.

Its high cost is justified by ecological safety, antistatic and refractory characteristics.

Rubber and alkyd material poorly tolerate heat, and nitrocellulose has a large flammability index.

As for the PVC product, which is based on foamed or fabric material, its disadvantage lies in its specific odor.

Is it possible to lay a laminate on a linoleum?

Over the linoleum, it is possible and even necessary to lay the laminate, as the old floor covering will bear additional advantages.

The main thing is that the old flooring should have a perfectly flat surface and there are no significant damages on it.

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To ensure that the laminate does not flex during use, the linoleum should not be too soft. In this case, the old coating should fit well on the base.

Before laying a laminate, it is recommended to lay a cork or polyethylene intermediate substrate over a linoleum, about 3 mm thick.

If you do not save, then at the output you can get a high-quality and beautiful coating that will last for many years.

Laminate before laying is kept indoors for about 3 days. During this period, the laminate adapts to the humidity and temperature of the room in which it will be laid.

Laminate is recommended to be purchased with a margin, since lamellas from different lots with the same texture and color can still differ in color.

Once the laminate has been laid, the difference in tints can be evident.

To supplement the above information will allow a thematic video in our article.