Tips & Tricks for the floating installation

Wood floors are very popular. Enter residential premises in a friendly atmosphere, offering a variety of decorative options and are easy to clean. The floating system is the easiest way parquet, laminate or wood flooring process. But here are some tricks to keep in mind that the joy continues at the new ground for long. This includes choosing the right Fugenleims - with wood glue parquet & laminate Fugenleim Henkel holds the wooden floor was guaranteed to all charges.

Wood floors are in the trend. More and more homes are decorated with parquet flooring and laminates tested as similar. These are not only practical use, easy to clean and allergy-friendly; they contribute to a healthier well-being in their own homes. Thanks to the tongue and groove wood flooring system can even be slightly embarrassed by it-yourselfers. Here, the floorboards are floating, without additional attachment to the substrate, glued together in a tongue and groove. Thus, the popular wood flooring to the daily stresses and capable of withstanding, are quietly observed when installing a few tricks.

Before we start, should always be the right tool at hand saws, hammers, angle, bat, distance wedges and Ponal Fugenleim from Henkel are standard equipment of the handyman when laying wood flooring with tongue and groove system With the exception of deep-pile carpets, the user-friendly material to be laid on almost any surface. To preventable water damage, it is recommended to screed and tile flooring, at additional layer of polyethylene film, in rooms without a PVC film is to use as additional moisture barrier to under the insulation.

For a pleasing floor appearance the direction of the course is particularly important plank. To reduce shadow areas the boards are always laid in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the incoming light. Spacer wedges, lengthwise and crosswise inserted, Provide the Necessary distance to the wall. This Directive are 10 mm in order to work the material and variations can be compensated in the course of the wall. At the end of each row, the last board is appropriately marked and cut. Is the residual pieces longer than 40 cm, it can be used as the starting piece for the next row. Otherwise, just half of a new hall for the next row to use.

Apply Now, according to the coating manufacturer's enough wood glue parquet & laminate Fugenleim in the spring and into the groove and put together the planks. Here it is important that all joints are seamlessly together. To tap gently with the bat against the spring-side. With laminate flooring should be the glue when assembling the boards emerges consistently. This immediately deported after the formation of skin with a plastic spatula and then wipe with a damp cloth.

To improve the stability of the respective end pieces are tightened after insertion with the crowbar firm and tight. The first three rows will need a dry period of about an hour, and then just move on, row by row. Finally, it is again tricky. To install the last plank row accurately, it requires a little trick. Here's how it goes: the last board placed on the penultimate and accurately aligned. Another hang up the pen against the wall and mark. Now the last board and cut to be fitted with a crowbar.