Anyone ever lay laminate flooring? - Page 2

Originally Posted by Chainsaw13:
Use a scrap piece of flooring, or you can always buy one of those plastic blocks. That and a rubber mallet will help tighten all your gaps after you put each piece in.

You don't want to start banging on engineered "click" flooring.
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Oh and to answer the question in the title of the thread?

Once. But I got splinters something fierce.
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Originally Posted by smitty81:
Like I just posted, he did tear it apart and fix it.

Anywho, you guys told me what I wanted to know.

Thanks.

Fixing the problem is one thing, Fixing what caused said problem is a whole different thing.:-)
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Originally Posted by jluck:
Fixing the problem is one thing, Fixing what caused said problem is a whole different thing.:-)

its 40 years old. Normal wear and tear.
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What you are doing is called A floating floor. Be sure to place a quality piece of styrofoam padding underneath do not go for the cheap stuff. You need to glue all the tongues and grooves together, and be sure to leave a 3/8 inch gap for expansion and then apply a shoe mold which will usualy come in the same as the flooring. Its easy and you should have no problems. Also break the joints 8 to 12 inches no less.
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Quarter round will be your friend :-)
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Originally Posted by Bigsam:
What you are doing is called A floating floor. Be sure to place a quality piece of styrofoam padding underneath do not go for the cheap stuff. You need to glue all the tongues and grooves together, and be sure to leave a 3/8 inch gap for expansion and then apply a shoe mold which will usualy come in the same as the flooring. Its easy and you should have no problems. Also break the joints 8 to 12 inches no less.

The old floating floors were glue together. The current ones on the market are not. They have a locking system where the planks lock into each other at the joint. Do not try to glue a floor that's meant to be glueless.
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