Laying Linoleum on Wooden Floor

Choosing flooring for wood surface should turn its attention to linoleum, because it can truly be considered a versatile material. Linoleum is wear-resistant, suitable for almost any environment, the process of laying linoleum on a concrete floor is not particularly difficult, and, finally, its price is significantly lower than other flooring.

 

The main stages of laying linoleum

Before laying the wood floor must be checked for the presence of irregularities and gaps, if necessary, to remove them, otherwise the life of linoleum significantly reduced.

Since in most cases the wooden floor has defects, the perfect solution in this case would be the flooring of thin sheet material, such as fiberboard, after removing the old baseboards. Fiberboard sheets should be strengthened on the surface with nails, then the existing gap between the stacked sheets necessary to cover special putty. Once prepared the final floor dries, sheets coated with a varnish to prevent moisture from the wood surface and putrefaction.

Determine the size of linoleum, you can go to the store for purchase (see calculator floor space). Prefer one piece cover, to avoid future additional seams and tedious work of combining drawing. The optimum thickness of linoleum - 3 mm, it will increase its lifespan.

To prevent cracks and creases on the cover of transporting and storing a roll of linoleum, no kinks web.

A special tool for cutting linoleum removes extra centimeters.

Before the final paving should lie down and take the form of sex. To do this, linoleum laid on a prepared surface as it will continue to lie. If you need paving not one-piece cloth and pieces, then they should also be immediately expanded in the right order.

Laying linoleum on wooden floor

According to Eurotex Flooring, after finally linoleum, you can proceed to its immediate installation. Before that, check the dimensions cover may need to remove a couple of extra inches.

Avoid the formation of bubbles and waves on the linoleum, between the wall and the edge of blade should leave a gap of no more than 1 cm after installing new baseboards gap will not be seen.

Next glue pieces of fabric at the base. For this you will need special glue for linoleum. In cases where the floor covering is a continuous web, eliminating the need for gluing, simply presses firmly linoleum baseboards. Usually this applies to those premises, the area does not exceed 20 sqm

Primarily linoleum must roll up, and using a special roller, apply adhesive to the floor. Then, strongly pressed to the base fabric, slowly roll. Apply glue to the surface of the floor as needed, otherwise it will dry quickly. Laying linoleum in areas with a large area, it is more convenient to work in four hands. If in the process of laying pieces of fabric are used, then they should use the method of sealing cold welding linoleum.

Having made their choice in favor of linoleum should not forget that this kind of coverage is very susceptible to moisture, which in turn leads to swelling of the floor boards. Therefore, you should choose wood floor linoleum felt without basis because it is good to accumulate and retain moisture.

About Author: Sumit Jain is a professional in Eurotex Flooring, a flooring company. Laying linoleum on the wooden floor is not particularly difficult and can be done with his own hands. I hope the people will get some helpful information if to know more about wood flooring you can click here.