A wonderful way to enhance your living space is the installation of flooring. Whether you go for a modern and innovative look or want to remodel. Also if you’d like to lessen the maintenance, you can manage this home improvement yourself. This will save on installation costs, yet, you only need to be ready for a full day of work.
Learn How to Install Flooring:
Phase 1: Preparing the Floor
- Make sure your floor is level
- Using a level, you have to check for low spots or bumps. If you are replacing old flooring. Then the floor will usually be a level, yet if you’re installing a floor in a new house. You have to ensure the surface is flat.
- Use a chisel and hammer to grind down high spots
- Use a leveling compound to complete any low spots
- Clean the sub-floor surface
- The sub-floor is the layer of concrete or wood. Underneath your carpet, wood flooring, or tiles. Use a broom to sweep up and debris and dust and remove any lingering adhesive with a paint scraper.
- Remove any baseboards or molding from the edges of the wall
- Carefully pry off the baseboards and set them aside to reinstall. After you’ve completed the floor.
- Take off the doors
- Remove the doors so that you have a more available room to work. And don’t need to worry about them swinging for you.
- To make room for the new flooring cut underneath the doorjambs
- Using a jamb saw that is available almost at rental centers or tool libraries. Trim away the base of the door jamb. The door jamb is the casing or the frame of the door. You need to prepare your jamb saw to the height of the flooring. And trim so that you can slide your new flooring underneath.
Failure to execute prep work will make the installation process stressful and the final job unsatisfactory. Getting it right the first time will also save you money and time spent on repair work.
Phase 2: Floor installation
You can proceed with installing your floor when the surface is ready. This method is easy given you follow the installation guidelines. For your particular type of floor. You need to check a flooring contractor for help if you have any trouble.
Phase 3: The Finishing
Properly staining, cutting, and finishing your quarter round, T moldings, and baseboards. Also, other trims can even make a poorly installed floor look great. This part of your floor installation needs some creativity. As it may have to customize your trim to fit your application.
You have to ensure you have a soft cloth or towel available to protect the floor’s finish. While you’re completing the installation. To set your kneel and tools. Once you’ve done the installation, it’s time for you to add transitions. Base molding and trim to cover all the expansion spaces. Then, allow the floor set based on the manufacturer’s instructions. Experts in floor installation find working left to right makes an easier installation. Always know that the quality of the subfloor will influence the quality of the floor.
