Excellent decorativeness and practicality, convenience and ease of use - gave the laminate a well-deserved reputation for a popular and practical material, very convenient for finishing floors in rooms of various kinds.
It can be laid on any level surfaces, including a wooden board, however, it is more common to lay a laminate on a concrete floor.
Contents:
- Features of the
- preparatory process
- self-styling specialties
basic work and additional services costs
preparatory process features Because the laminate flooring process is not difficult, many prefer to do this work on their own, saving on access tocorresponding to the masters.
And, in turn, to lay the laminate on the concrete floor with your own hands was performed professionally and qualitatively, it is necessary to follow several simple rules:
- There should be some time between the cement-sand screed device and laying of the laminate board, so that the concrete base "stands"and has acquired the optimum moisture content( no more than 2.5%);
- It is very important to check the basis for possible irregularities and blemishes. Any roughness height of more than 3 mm must be eliminated, and then clean and clean the base.
The laminate should be laid on a concrete floor with a substrate on a dry and clean surface, free of dust and debris.
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In addition, laying the laminate on concrete also requires the installation of an additional vapor barrier layer, for which a polyethylene film having the appropriate qualities can be used.
Another important point: before laying a laminate board, it must be held in a room whose temperature regime is about 18 degrees, in a sealed form for about two days for better adaptation of the material to subsequent operating conditions.
Thinness of self-paving
Put the laminate on the concrete floor, having pre-covered the substrate.
For this purpose, inexpensive polyethylene film can be used. This is done in a "lapped" manner, with fixation of the joints of the film with adhesive tape.
Instead of cheap polyethylene, it is possible to use a more expensive and quality bitumen-cellulose substrate with cork chips, but it requires the installation of a special type of skirting boards that have "breathable" properties.
In addition, it can not be laid under the "warm floor".
To laminate a concrete floor it is necessary in parallel, installing special spacers between walls and boards, providing the necessary size of the gap.
Orientation should be about 0.7 to 1.5 cm wide.
The second row boards should be installed in relation to the previous ones at an angle of 30-40 degrees, with locks to themselves, in order to make them easier to snap.
The following rows should be staggered, for example, for example, the first board of the second row should be cut approximately half.
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All other panels of the series will be already intact, except when they need to trim because of the geometric features of the room.
All boards must fit tightly into the grooves of their "neighbors" from the parallel row, for which you can gently knock on them with a hammer, using a wooden plate as a shock absorber.
You need to saw off the laminate with a special jig saw.
The best way is to lay out the laminate panels perpendicular to the window opening of the room, since in this case the joints between them will be less noticeable.
After the third row of panels is laid out, it is necessary to check the correctness of the laying line of the lock.
If you are going to lay a laminate on a heated concrete floor, keep in mind that the heating system must be started a few weeks before the installation of this floor covering and turn off in advance.
Cost of main works and additional services
If the room in which you need to put a laminated board has a complex configuration or a large area, for an optimal result, an invitation to carry out this work by qualified specialists will be more rational.
They will perform it more quickly, ensuring the high quality of the services provided.
This will allow you to prevent the occurrence of the hassle associated with its reworking in the case of your own unsuccessful experience.
The cost of laying a laminate on a concrete floor depends on the number of preparatory and additional works associated with this process.
This amount often includes the cost of the cement-sand screed, which serves as the basis for the future laminate coating.
The price of this procedure will depend on the quality of the mixtures used, the need for additional reinforcement work, or the preliminary disassembly of the old coating that was in the room, etc.
As a rule, services for leveling one square meter of the base under the laminate cost in the amount of 300 to 350 rubles.
The price of laying a laminate on a concrete floor without the device of screeds for today starts from 200 rubles.
This amount will have to pay for the usual laying of the laminate board of the lock type.
Laying diagonally and decorating the floor with laminate in rooms with complex architecture will cost a bit more.
The cost of these services includes the installation of a substrate. As for the installation of skirting boards and other additional elements, including thresholds, the prices for these services are calculated separately.
