Installation Guide

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Installation Guide

How to install standard underlayment for your new floor

The main purpose of the flooring underlayment is to allow your floating floor to shrink expand as the room

temperature and humidity changes. Floating floors are not permanently attached to your subfloor, and to

help avoid damaging friction you need underlayment, which will give your floor smooth surface to float on.

Standard Foam Underlayment is the most common type of flooring padding. It is suitable for laminate wood

flooring, engineered wood hardwood floor and /or any other type of floating floor.

This underlayment is simply a thin foam padding, about 1/8″ thick. Made out of polyethylene or polypropylene

it usually comes in rolls. The size of the roll ranges anywhere from 100 to 1,500 square feet.

Standard underlayment provides very basic sound reduction, thermal R-value and sub-floor correction.

In general, flooring underlayment gets laid down over the subfloor before installing the floating floor. Standard

foam underlayment is suitable for installation over wood, plywood, OSB subfloor, and other places where there

is no possibility of moisture coming up from the subfloor.

Step 1: Remove

Your very first step should be to remove your existing floor that is currently covering your room; this will

include removal of the carpet as well as carpet padding. Carpet padding is too thick and cannot be used as an

underlayment for floating types of flooring. We are getting a lot of questions about removal of the linoleum or

commercial carpets. You can keep them as long as the manufacturer of your floor allows it, and they are even

and flat.

You will also need to remove any existing quarter round molding as well as wall base prior to the installation

Step 2: Clean Your Subfloor

The surface of the subfloor must be clean. Using your broom or vacuum cleaner, clean your subfloor from all

loose debris and dirt before moving forward with the foam underlayment installation.

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Installation Guide How to install standard underlayment for your new floor The main purpose of the flooring underlayment is to allow your floating floor to shrink expand as the room temperature and humidity changes. Floating floors are not permanently attached to your subfloor, and to help avoid damaging friction you need underlayment, which will give your floor smooth surface to float on. Standard Foam Underlayment is the most common type of flooring padding.
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Step 3: Inspect Your Sub-Floor After your subfloor is nice and clean it is time for an inspection. It is a very important task that’s very often neglected. Make sure to carefully inspect your subfloor and make sure it’s flat, in good repair, and dry. Step 4: Fix Your Subfloor If you noticed any issues with your subfloor, take time to address it before moving forward. Your subfloor MUST be FLAT.
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Step 7: Tape Rows Secure rows by taping them together, this will keep your underlayment in place. Step 8: Don’t Overlap Be sure not to overlap the pieces of the underlayment when you add consecutive rows. All you have to do is butt rows together and secure them with a sticky tape. Step 9: Work by Sections Do not roll an entire roll of underlayment out at once. Work section by section, installing your underlayment and flooring together as you move forward.
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Step 10: Add Flooring To begin laying flooring start at the corner of the room and lay plank-by-plank on top of underlayment until you reach the opposite wall. Each row should have no gaps in joints. Once your first row is complete start on the next row. Please note the joints in the flooring should not line up from one row to the next. This will help prevent the flooring from separating over time. Continue to lay rows of flooring until you are getting near the edge of underlayment.