Laying the laminate diagonally is one way to give the floor surface an exquisite look.
Unusually arranged lines in the interior lead to a look and form the main impression of the room.
If in the interior of the room the laminate floors are laid along the wall, you can visually increase the length of the room.
To make the space wider will allow laying the laminate, held across the room.
Laying the laminate diagonally will lead the view to the corner of the room, to where the lines of coverage leave.
Alternating light and dark bars during installation, the floors in the interior can be made more expressive.
Diagonal paving is indispensable in the interior of narrow rooms and rooms with non-standard layout.
After all, if in a narrow space the laminate plates are laid parallel to the walls, attention is focused on them.
With diagonal stacking, everything is the other way around, the layout itself is attracting attention.
This is especially true of the angles on which attention is focused, due to what they can be made the center of composition in the interior.
In this case, as can be seen from the photo, the shape and size of the space are in the shadows.
Considering the disadvantages of installing a laminate diagonally, it should be said that there are not more of them than when laying panels using standard technology.
First of all - this is a large consumption of material, which can be eliminated if properly laid. In the second - the process itself, according to some experts, more laborious.
Contents:
- Features of laying a laminate on a diagonal
- Technology of laying a laminate without thresholds
- How to calculate the required amount of laminate?
- Rules for installing a laminate on the diagonal
Features of laying the laminate on the diagonal
On the question: "how to lay a laminate on the diagonal?" You can answer that in this technology there is nothing complicated.
The stacking process differs little from the standard method, which means that the alignment of the main floor and the arrangement of the substrate has not been canceled.
The only thing that is recommended to pay attention before laying is to choose the arrangement of the dies diagonally - relative to the light.
The laminate must be laid diagonally in such a way that the light rays emanating from the windows are scattered along the length of the slats.
This position will visually hide the joints and give the floor covering the appearance of a single sheet.
In addition, the laying of the laminate diagonally must be carried out at a certain temperature. The optimal variant of the temperature regime is 20-260C.
The humidity should be between 45% and 75%.
It is possible to exclude the possibility of deformation of individual laminate laminates if the material is left for a day in the room where the flooring will be carried out.
Draw laminate boards with your own hands, better with a padding - a rectangular bar of wood, which will ideally fit the panels into each other.
The lamination pattern can be made in two variations: starting from the center of the room or from one of its corners.
By arranging the laminate floor from the middle of the room, you can reduce the consumption of material, which means that the above mentioned shortcomings will be reduced by one point.
If you put the first row of bars on the center, you get two working fields, so that unsuitable plates for one side can be used for laying on the second side.
Work will be more efficient if you collect rows in turn, then from one, then from the arc of the central line.
In this case, it is necessary to control the spreading of seams and gaps between the laminate and the wall.
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It is appropriate to use simple devices in the form of wedges - for placement in the appearing lumens and maintaining the laths in the desired geometric position.
And if the skirtings are located along the walls, the gaps near the doors will be much more difficult to hide.
It is because of these ugly cracks that the laminate is laid without thresholds. More details on the process of processing the seams will allow video plot.
Technology of laying a laminate without thresholds
Since it is more difficult to make a section of a laminate near the opening than the rest of the room, it is possible to apply technology that will allow laying the flooring without the thresholds.
For this, it is necessary to lay the laminate for the combined rooms in only one direction, which will allow removing the boundaries and increase the space.
In addition, the original flooring without thresholds will be obtained by combining flooring.
For example, a laminate laid on a diagonal, is well combined in the transition thresholds with ceramic tiles.
Often, such a division of the residential area can be observed in the corridor with a bathroom or kitchen, as in the proposed photo.
For an ideal sealing of joints of the flooring made without thresholds, it is recommended to use an artificial stopper, which in its action resembles a mounting foam.
The gaps are neatly filled with a construction gun, with their own hands the surplus material is cut after hardening.
The sealant does not let water pass, it has the property of expanding and contracting, completely adjusting to the behavior of the laminate.
Adding details to the above material will allow video on the device flooring without thresholds.
How to calculate the required amount of laminate?
Calculation of laminate boards for diagonal laying differs from the calculation of the amount of material required for installation in a straightforward manner.
For the second method, it is sufficient to determine the area of the room and divide the resulting figure by the size of one board, leaving only the rounded result to be found. Additionally, 7% is taken for the cropping.
Calculating the material for laying diagonally will require the use of a completely different mathematical formula.
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To the result of multiplying the length and width of the room, add the result of multiplying the width of one panel by 1.42 and the width of the room.
The mathematical calculation has the following form:
( АСхCD) +( 1,42 АС х panel unit width)
Where:
- АС - width of the room;
- CD - length of the room;
- 1.42 is the square root of the two.
For example, take a space with an area of 5x7 m and a width of one laminate panel of 0.1 m, with a length of 1 m.
The calculation is as follows:
- Area: 5x7 = 35 m 2;
- Area of spare parts:( 1,42х5х0,1) = 0,71 m 2;
- Area of one panel: 0,1х1 = 0,1 m 2.
The required values are substituted into the formula:
- 35 + 0,71 = 35,71 m 2( total number of products).
- 35.71: 0.1 = 357.1 pcs.
We round up to 357. The above calculation allowed to determine that for laying a laminate diagonally in a 5x7 room, 357 pieces of boards are needed.
Rules for installing a laminate on the diagonal
Laying a laminate covering diagonally, you will get a high-quality result only if all the installation rules are observed.
A step-by-step instruction can have the following action plan:
- Determine the direction of stacking of boards, very often they begin to be mounted by hand from the far left corner. The best option is the angle from 300 to 450;
- Spacing wedges 10 mm in size are placed along the walls, between the edges of the products and the walls. Thus, we exclude the tight fit of the boards to them and form thermal seams;
- Laying the laminate diagonally is performed in staggered order. Since the walls of not all rooms are connected at an angle of 900, the first two and even three rows of laminate must be adjusted to the existing angle.
During installation, make sure that the final edge of the stacked element fits its shape at the beginning of the next bar.
How to properly cut a laminate:
- we measure the step from the edge of the penultimate element to the wall( for one side of the bar), not forgetting the existence of a temperature seam;
- using a pencil, make marks on the laminate;
- we measure for the second opposite side of the bar and make a mark with a pencil;
- we connect points of marks among themselves a line and on it we saw a detail an electric jig saw.
Sawing is performed from the underside of the part, which will eliminate damage to its outer cover.
Among the additional recommendations for laying the laminate diagonally, it is worth noting such important points as the optimal length of the acquired board and the time after which it is possible to put the coating into operation.
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A single standard for the length of laminate boards does not exist, among the common variants of 1260 mm and 1380 mm, there are also longer ones around 1800 mm.
But to buy too long panels is not worth it, since later it will be difficult to sustain the geometry of each element during the laying process.
It is possible to move over the assembled laminate flooring only if the panels are installed due to the locking joints.
If the laminate has been installed on the adhesive, it is necessary to wait until the adhesive composition has dried. Usually, the manufacturer specifies the period for the package.
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