What Are Laminate Floors

Laminate flooring is one of the most comfortable and practical coating types for your home. Besides being very natural looking, they are long lasting. In addition, their affordable prices add a distinct attraction to them. Many users prefer laminate flooring. Let's get to know laminate flooring better.

How to Install Laminate Flooring?

It is not difficult to install laminate flooring. You just need to use the right materials and methods. There are 3 methods: You can install without glue, laying with a joint material such as clickguard (high protection against moisture) and laying with glue. Tiling with glue also provides continuous protection against moisture. But this process is more troublesome than others. In other methods, it is possible to remove the coating and lay it again. On the other hand, it is impossible to disassemble and cover a second floor with glue.

We will write you a few items to get your laminate flooring right. First, you need to clean the subfloor you want to lay. Not all sub floors are suitable for laminate flooring.

If you are going to lay laminate on a screed floor, the floor must be absolutely flat, clean and dry. You need to eliminate unevenness of more than three millimeters in the floor. You should also use PE-foil as a dehumidifying material.

If you are going to make laminate on the wooden floor, you need to level the uneven points after fixing the planks. You cannot use PE-foil on wooden floors.

You cannot laminate on a PV or Linoleum floor. If you have such a floor, you need to remove this floor.

If you are going to laminate the substrate with floor heating lines, be sure to consult a heating system specialist. You must not exceed 28 degrees ground temperature.

What You Should Do Before Laying Lamina Covering:

Store packages under the same climatic conditions and use opened packages immediately.

The subfloor must be absolutely flat, clean and dry. Remember, uneven floors are your worst enemy when laying laminate.

The optimum temperature condition for laminate coating is 20 degrees. Relative humidity of 50-70 percent is sufficient for coatings to be long-lasting.

If you are laying on a mineral subfloor such as concrete, screed, tile, you need to measure the moisture of the subfloor. If you have a floor heating system, if you are going to make cement screed on it, the screed layer should be 1.8 cm. If you are making cement screed without heating the floor, this ratio should be 2 cm. If you are using anhydrite screed on the floor heating system, the screed thickness is 0.3 percent; If the floor is not heated, the screed thickness should be 0.5 cm.

Before laying on mineral subfloors, you need to take a precaution for moisture. For this, you must cover a vapor barrier foil in PE foil.

Carpet flooring is not a suitable flooring for laminate flooring.

You can use 2 mm thick PE-foam foil to dampen walking noise.

Lay the lines in the same direction as the panels.

How to Install Laminate Floor Skirting?

15-20 mm expansion gap is left at the bottom of the wall while the skirting is installed. The space left can be covered decoratively. Therefore, laminate parquet broom installation is done. The quality of the material you will purchase is very important for its longevity. Laminate parquet skirting is a paper covering over MDF. There are sizes varying between 4-10 cm. Mounting is done to the wall with steel wire nails.

What Should You Pay Attention To When Choosing Laminate Flooring?

The first thing to note is that your laminate flooring has ISO 9002 certification. You should definitely learn the strength of the parquet. It should be stated how many kg of HDF is used in 1 cubic meter. Get information about the density of HDF.

The main criterion is always durability. Although the color of the parquet is very attractive to you, it can have an easily drawn structure. Try to look at the event logically, not emotionally. Look for its durability. To make the parquet look more stylish, you can choose skirtings in close tones or contrasting colors.

The usage area of the parquet is also a very important factor. There are two different classes of parquet. Upper classes are preferred in places with high movement volume, ie walking traffic. Subclasses are used on soils with less movement. Classes 21,22.23 are for residential use; Classes 31, 32, 33 are also suitable for commercial places. There is a 10-year warranty for 8 mm parquets and a 15-year warranty for 10 mm parquets. 

How to Remove Laminate Flooring?

First, remove the items in the room completely. Parquet edges are fragile. If you intend to use the parquets that you have removed in the future, disassemble carefully. It is convenient for you to remove the baseboards before dismantling. Use a flat iron to separate the baseboards from the wall. After removing the brooms, you will see nail residue. Remove nails with the help of traction. Do not damage the wall. The parquets are very easy to dismantle. When you remove a single one, the rest will feel like a sock ripper. You can use a flat iron spatula for this. You can remove the laminate flooring glued with glue with a solvent solution.

How Should You Delete Laminate Flooring?

You bought your parquets, but do you want to maintain their stylish looks as on the first day? For this, you need to clean your parquets frequently and use the right products during cleaning. When cleaning your parquets, you should not choose harsh chemical products. Because these harsh chemicals are very likely to damage your flooring. You must have the criteria for choosing the right material. In addition to all these warnings, you do not need too many cleaning items to clean laminate flooring. This type of parquet is more durable than wooden parquets, so this process is quite easy. In fact, it is enough to vacuum laminate flooring once in daily cleaning. But apart from that, wet cleaning once or twice a week is also ideal.

You can clean your laminate floors with a natural soap. Add some liquid or gel arabic soap to your cleaning bucket depending on the dirtiness of the parquets. Soak your cleaning cloth or mop in this bucket and wring out the cloth well. After these procedures, you can start cleaning your laminate flooring. If the scent of Arab soap is heavy, you can drop a few drops of floral scented essences into the water. After the cleaning process, you should take care not to leave the laminate flooring wet. Your parquets may swell over time and take an unwanted appearance. Make sure not to leave it wet. Dry well after wiping.

Imagine your kids drawing something on your parquet with crayons, or your lipstick smearing the parquet.

In such cases, you can drop dishwashing detergent on your laminate flooring and rub it with a wet cloth. You are likely to remove any food stains this way as well. After rubbing the area where you driped dish soap with a cloth, dry it thoroughly As we said before, it is very important that laminate flooring does not stay wet. It would be beneficial to use a damp cloth or a special fiber cloth while wiping. You can polish your parquets once in a while. Still, be you, do not do this too much. Otherwise, the life of your flooring will be shortened.

It is also very important that laminate flooring remains shiny and does not wear out over time. There is a very simple method for you to keep the shine like the first day. It's vinegar too. Vinegar is perfect for keeping your parquets shiny while killing many bacteria on the surface. In other words, you will both provide hygiene and save your eye pleasure. You can also use vinegar in other ways. For example, after wiping the parquets thoroughly, you can finally pour a tea glass of vinegar into the bucket and go over it once with vinegar. Or you can mix arabic soap with a cup of vinegar and use it. Vinegar is indeed a panacea. With all these methods, you can be sure that your parquets will remain clean. Remember, less is always more. You do not want to fluff and rot your laminate flooring, which contains a lot of wood material, by using excessive liquid during cleaning.