Laying laminate flooring: some solutions to an unusual problem

Laminate flooring is a fairly popular flooring. Practicality and ease of installation play a significant role in its popularity. It can be laid both on concrete and on a wooden base, in particular on a parquet floor. It should be noted that laying the laminate on the parquet will be relevant only with an average degree of deterioration of this floor covering.

What are the features of this procedure?

If the parquet is in very poor condition, it will take a lot of time and effort to repair it before you can lay another coating on top, which is pretty expensive. In this case, it is much easier to remove the parquet planks and level the rough floor, which will become the basis for the new coating. If the parquet is in good condition, it can be quite easily and quickly restored, which will cost less than installing a new coating.

But in the case when it is still advisable to lay the laminate, you need to pay attention to such nuances:

Do not lay the laminate throughout the room in one direction, the so-called "solid". This method is not only complicated in execution, but also presents a floor covering not in the best possible way. We recommend for each room and room to choose your optimal laying direction. Borders of the transition can be made in the area of the doorway and covered with sills or special finishing fittings.
It is necessary to eliminate all voids in the old flooring. Otherwise, the installation of heavy furniture may damage it. Missing trims can be cut out of wood and even from chipboard, installed, shattered elements to strengthen, stick.
One of the most common problems when laminate flooring is on the parquet is the increased “creakiness” of the latter. It is important to understand that the creak will not disappear on its own. There are a lot of ways to get rid of it, you need to experiment, and eliminate a similar problem before the main installation work.

The rest of the installation of the laminate on the flooring is performed similarly to a similar procedure for any other basis.

You can read more about how to lay a laminate on a non-wooden floor in the article:https://floor.expertexpro.com/en/pol-pokritiya/laminat/ukladka-laminata-na-derevyannyj-pol.html. All stages of the work, starting with the preparation of the foundation.

Before laying the laminate, the parquet base must be carefully examined and properly prepared.

Foundation preparation technology

Old parquet is checked for strength, reinforcing planks. They can either be nailed or glued using special glue or mastic. Excavations, large cracks and crevices are putty.

Recesses, cracks and large gaps between the parquet strips must be puttied

Get rid of the squeak as follows: between two adjacent creaking laths, a hole is drilled into which a wood tenon greased with glue is inserted, suitable in diameter. Its upper part is cut flush with the floor.

The surface is leveled so that the height differences are not more than 2-3 mm per meter. This is most often achieved through parquet hinges (you can restrict yourself to rough grinding).

After all these preparatory manipulations, it is necessary to carefully remove garbage and dust. Next, the subfloor is preferably primed and allowed to dry. The moisture content of the base on which they plan to lay the laminate should not exceed 10%. The floor must be even, clean and dry.

On a flat floor lay a substrate.Her choice will depend on the load, which is assumed, indoor humidity and financial capabilities. The assortment is large and includes samples from the simplest to the most advanced, with lots of useful properties: noise absorption, moisture protection, insulation, in the end. They lay the joint butt-to-butt, the seams are glued with tape.

Let's talk about the methods of leveling the floor and compensating for defects in the base for laying the laminate in the material:https://floor.expertexpro.com/en/pol-pokritiya/laminat/ukladka-laminata-na-nerovnyj-pol.html.

Preparation of material and tools

When purchasing material, it is important to choose a laminate of the corresponding wear resistance class, take into account the type of panel connection, texture and color. It is necessary to pay attention to the integrity of the packaging in order to protect yourself from defective goods, and choose a coating from one series.

Packages with a laminate need to be placed in the room in which it will be laid for approximately two days. During this time, he will have time to “acclimatize” to new conditions, which will reduce the risk of deformation during installation to zero. Place the packaging on the floor horizontally, face up. Temperature and humidity should be natural for this room.

In order for the whole procedure to go smoothly, and the result is pleasing, it is necessary to prepare not only materials, but also tools: a jigsaw (preferably an electric one), a hammer, a tamping block, a tape measure, a metal square, a pencil, wedges-limiters and a drill.

Laminate Laying Process

Laminate flooring on a prepared parquet base occurs in the same way as in other cases. The panels are laid perpendicular to the window and parallel to sunlight. This is the easiest and most common way.

If you have some experience, you can experiment with more complex options for laying the laminate, which undoubtedly look attractive, but are more time-consuming to implement.

There are quite a few ways to lay laminate from simple to quite complex

You can find a comparative overview of various types of laminate underlays depending on the base and other parameters of your room here:https://floor.expertexpro.com/en/pol-pokritiya/laminat/kakaya-podlozhka-luchshe-pod-laminat.html.

Indentation from the walls is mandatory, which avoids excessive expansion during temperature fluctuations. The width of the gap directly depends on the size of the room and is 1.5 mm per 1 m. Most often leave a gap 10 mm wide, which can easily be hidden behind the baseboard. The panels of the next row are offset from the previous one by at least 40 cm. An interesting chess pattern is obtained on the floor, which can be done by a master of any skill.

The panels are interconnected, most often with a latch. This method allows subsequently, if necessary, without difficulty to dismantle this coating and reassemble.

Parquet flooring can serve as a good basis for the laminate, if it is properly prepared and in good condition. The technology of laying the flooring on the parquet is practically no different from installing it on a traditional base (wood or concrete), this procedure will not be difficult even for beginners. The most important nuance is that you need to pay close attention to preparing the foundation, leveling the floor and correcting defects. How to prepare a parquet floor for laying a laminate on it, we have discussed in the article. Compliance with the necessary technology, accuracy and patience will allow you to get a beautiful, practical floor, which is nice to walk on, in addition, it will last a long time without creating unnecessary problems for the owners, because it is easy to care for.

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Andrew
6 years ago

In my opinion, laying a laminate on a parquet flooring is both expensive and financially and from the point of view of expenses of expenditure of physical forces, but still justified. Using this technology, or it will probably be correct to say, by laying in this way, we get additional floor insulation, which has a positive effect on saving space heating, since a warm floor keeps heat. In any case, the option is a win-win definitely, it is not necessary to dismantle the existing floor covering and pay for the removal of environmentally friendly building materials to garbage.
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Sergei
6 years ago

The idea of laying a laminate on a parquet floor is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, it looks attractive, since the parquet floor can be almost an ideal surface for laying, but on the other hand, the preparation of the parquet floor (eliminating creaks, cracks, etc.) can take much more time, effort and money than if removed old parquet and lay plywood or cement-bonded particleboards as the basis for laying the finish coating.
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