There is a big area of wood laminate floor installed in someone’s room. Now he wants to disassemble it and install the planks in another room. He found that the planks are more quickly to be disassembled if he pulls the long side of one plank upward. And he wonders if it is a right way to disassemble the planks.
In fact his way is wrong. The plank he pulls is connected with other plans with locking system at both long side and short side. Part of the locking system will be destroyed with t...
How to deal with the loose locking system of laminate floor?
Posted by mikelol @ Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:15 am
Someone found the locking system of his installed laminate floor got loosen. And the joints don’t look beautiful. And he wonders to how to solve the problem.
Our reply:
You need to use some special tools to solve the problem. The ways is as follows:
1. Insert some plastic or wooden spacers between the wall and planks to protect the laminate floor and wall during the maintenance.
2. Get some special pull bar. Use one end of the pull bar to pull the planks. And then tap the other en...
Wood laminate floor with attached underlay still need pad?
Posted by mikelol @ Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:01 am
Someone plans to install wood laminate floor with attached underlay in his living room. Now he wonders if extra pad is needed to resist the moisture from the subfloor.
There are total 4 layers of wood laminate floor. The bottom layer is moisture resistance layer. The pad directly put on the subfloor is used to reinforce the performance of moisture resistance. There is usually a type of film which main material is PE, EPE or EVA on the surface of pad which plays a key role for the damp resi...