How to Keep the Laminate Floating Floor from Unlocking

The Laminate flooring is the best way to enhance the visual request of your real estate investment. The Floating floors are the best option when you don't want to paste the laminate planks to the subfloor. The floating floor planks are designed to connect with the adjoining planks and lock in the place to create a solid floor surface. Unluckily, the floating floors can unlock when the subfloor surface is not level completely. When you solve the floor screeding problem, you will feel like you are floating on the cloud nine.

·         Examine a laminate planks to govern which piece is unlocking. Replace the plank if a laminate is ruptured or the tongue and groove locking system is injured. If the planks are in a good working condition, then the sub floor is possibly the problem.

·         Attach a small masking tape to the top of every laminate floor plank initiating with the last plank which was installed. Place a small piece of tape on every plank up to the troublesome floor plank. Number these masking tape portions with a pencil or crayon, by the number one on the plank which was installed at the last.

·         Remove the baseboards or trim through prying them loose with the backside of the hammer. Insert the floor puller under the middle of last plank which was installed.

·         Study the flooring close to the unlocking plank to locate any dips in the sub floor. Smear skim coating compound using a trowel to the uneven floor area. Allow the skim coat to completely dry.

·         Reinstall the laminate flooring in the same order as you removed them, beginning with these pieces closest to the troublesome sub floor region. Due to retraction and expansion, the flooring may give the laminate planks.