How To Get The First Row Of Laminate Flooring Straight

Starting the first row with laminate flooring i am ready to start installing my new laminate flooring and have looked at videos and read just about everything there is to read about it.

How to get the first row of laminate flooring straight.

Usually an outside wall will be the best place to start. 1 pry off with a prybar any baseboard or molding from the longest wall in the room. So i understand that getting the first row straight is key. The solution to this problem is to scribe the first and last rows of flooring so that they contour to the wall on one side and remain straight on the other.

1 prepare the laminate flooring for. When installing the first row of laminate flooring i prefer to start on a wall that is as straight as possible. When starting the first row of laminate flooring using spacers to maintain a gap will make it easier. Let s get started and i will show you how to install the first row of laminate flooring.

If the wall isn t straight and you start a full course of flooring against it then the whole floor will look crooked. This foundation i m talking about is at least 4 rows of planks. It is really important to build a solid foundation to work off of. The solution is to angle cut the lengths of the first and last courses for your laminate floor layout pattern so the floor is straight even if the walls aren t.

Measure away from the wall the width of one piece of flooring and add 1 4 inch for example if flooring is 5 inches wide measure out 5 1 4 inches and snap a chalk line across the room.