The laminate floor has become a well-liked trend to overlay the surface area of floor. You can opt for various materials such as wood, stones and ceramic tiles to have laminated cover. Aluminium oxide or melamine is used as the base material and that material is also known as medium-density fiberboard or MDF. It will not fade in sunlight and you will not see any kinds of stains and scratches. To get perfect natural flooring, you need to hire laminate floor installers who will execute the work very efficiently. As fiberboard or plywood is used for flooring, it might cause seepage that will ultimately lead to damage inside the planks, but the expert can fix the problem by constructing backing layers. If you have allergic issue then installing this laminate flooring can protect you from allergic issues.
Preparations required before the flooring is done
Before installation you have to make sure that the baseboards are removed and the rooms should be neat and clean to avoid any type of scratching. If the flooring is made above the existing flooring then the surface area must be polished properly so that you can avoid spongy texture in near future. The laminate floor installers generally cover up those areas with concrete slabs to create a proper leveling of the floors. They generally ask you to leave lacuna so that the floors can expand during the humid weather. You will never be able to identify those as the baseboards will be placed after the installation.
The laminate floor installers will ask you keep all the packaged material open in the room so that those can be acclimatization with the environment of the room. This procedure is done at least 48 hours prior to installation. You will also be advised to prepare the frames of the doors to get a perfect trimmed door which would rather have a correct height.
Types of Flooring
Solid Timber Flooring: This type of flooring is preferred to decorate rooms. If it is used in bathroom, a leak might occur and can lead to damage of the floor.
Engineered Flooring: It is also advised to install in dry clean place.
Ceramic flooring: Ceramic tiles are generally used to revamp children’s play rooms or bedrooms and it has a concrete waterproof base.
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