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Laminate Flooring
You can find laminate flooring for sale at most home building supply houses such as Lowe’s, Ernest’s, Menards and Home Depot and many online outlets like Amazon and Ebay. Your local Yellow Pages will also provide information regarding carpet and flooring suppliers in your area. You can even buy directly from some manufacturers online.
Laminate flooring is most often four layers of materials. The inner two are the HDF core layer, made of fiberboard, and the design layer made to resemble hardwood, tile, plank flooring, natural stone, bamboo, and wide plank flooring. Both the top and the bottom layers of the laminate flooring are impregnated with amino plastic thermosetting resins or melamine. This sturdy flooring is available in many installation forms from tiles, planks, and panels and even other styles.
Originating in Europe, laminate flooring is a relatively new product to North America. Its popularity is the reduced cost, ease of installation, and long enduring beauty.
Care should be taken to research price, quality of product and delivery costs. A wise consumer will take the time to identify not just cost by square foot of the laminate flooring but the cost of any needs of “sub flooring” and underlayment. Some laminate has the pad preinstalled and others you will need to buy it seperately.
Many retailers and wholesalers have laminate flooring for sale and are offering specials on installation for those not wanting to do it themselves. Lowe’s and Home Depot from time to time also offer the “do it your self” seminars in “how to” Install laminate flooring.
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You can buy Mohawk laminate flooring at way to many places to list them all here but a few of them are The Home Depot, Lowes, discountflooring.com and you can do online comparison shopping at builderssquare.com.
It runs at about two dollars a square foot at HD and Lowes. The main benefit of going to a local store is that they have flooring specialists that can help you to deside which one is right for you. You should keep in mind though that they are also there to sell you.
They both carry manydifferent designs and styles so you should be able to find something that will fit in with your decor.
One of the great things about getting it at The Home Depot or Lowes is that if they don’t have what you are looking for in particular they can order it in for you and have it within days. Also, one of the benefits is that with the purchase of flooring you can also get it installed for a discount price, unless you happen to order during a special then you can get it done for free.
You can also install it yourself. It’s very doable for the average person and it comes with instructions. We also have a guide on this site that will help if you want to do it yourself.
You can buy Mohawk laminate flooring at a great many places. Shop around and get the best price on the style that want and if you are going to have it professionally installed don’t forget to figure that cost into the total cost of your new floor.
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Laminate Flooring
Installing or “laying” laminate flooring is an easy and relatively inexpensive way to improve the beauty and value your home. If you already have your flooring you can skip this next part.
To determine how many boxes of planks and how much underlayment pad you will need to buy you’ll need to know the square footage of the area to be covered. To get this figure simply measure the area cross ways and length wise and multiply the two numbers. To be safe it’s best to buy a little more of each than you think you’re going to need.
It doesn’t matter wether you get your flooring from Shaw, Wilsonart, Mohawk, Amtico or any other manufacturer they will have directions for installation either on or inside the box: but here are a few tips that will help.
To start laying your new floor the first thing you need to do is remove all the furniture and vacuum the floor. Next remove the baseboards. If you are careful you’ll be able to reuse them.
If you are going to be installing through any doorways pull the hinge pins and remove the doors. Then use a coping saw to trim off the bottom of the jambs just enough for the planks and pad to fit under.
Now put down the underlayment and I would suggest that you go ahead and spring for the best. Connect the pieces together with wide tape.
Laminate flooring is a floating floor so you want to leave about a quarter of an inch free space around the edges of the room, use spacers along the wall that you are starting on. Remove these once the floor is down and before installing the baseboards.
Now lay out your new floor. Most laminate planks simply snap together with a tonge and grove action. You can use a rubber mallet to keep things tight.
If you are going through doorways you may need to trim the planks to get them in place. If you do this use a little wood glue to keep them secure.
When you are done all that’s left is to put up the baseboards. If you cut anything too short and there is space showing between the baseboard and floor you can use a strip of quarter round to cover this. Just use it around the entire room, it actually gives a nice look.
With proper care your new laminate floor should look great for many years to come and you will have the satisfaction of installing your new laminate floor and a job well done.