Installation Guide

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Step 6

• Stagger the end joints between rows at a minimum 12 inches.

• If you can, use the cut piece of floor panel from the previous row. If not suitable, take a new floor panel and cut

it in half.

• Place the floor panel at a low angle and insert the long side tongue into the locking groove of the floor panel in

the previous row.

• Fold the floor panel gently down.

Step 7

• Place the short end tongue of the next floor panel at an angle against the previously installed floor panel and

fold gently down.

• Ensure that the long side tongue is positioned on the locking strip of the previous row.

Step 8

• Using gentle force and at an angle, you gradually, from left to right, push the long side tongue into the locking

groove of the previous row.

• You may need to lift the floor panel to the left of it slightly to allow for the ‘sliding action’.

• Complete the whole row in the same way.

Note:

Expansion gaps around pipes.

• Measure the diameter of the pipes and mark the position on the floorboard. There should be a 3/16 to 5/16 inch

expansion gaps between the floor panel and the pipe or other vertical structures.

• Cut out the holes.

Door frames may have to be undercut.

• Use a floor panel as a guide as to how much to saw.

• Put the floor panel faced down as a guide.

• Saw off the bottom of the door frame to allow the floor panel to slide under it.