TD Vinyl Flooring Installation Guide

10/3/2013
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III.INSTALLATION
1. Installation method of floor panels, cont.
Fig5.
General.Distancesbetweenshortends.
Minimumdistancebetweenshortendsofplanksin
parallelrowsshallnotbelessthanabouttwotimes
thewidthoftheplank.
Fig7.
Secondplanksecondrow.
Placetheshortendofthefloorboardatan
angleagainstthepreviousinstalled
floorboardandfolddownalltheway.
Fig6.
Placethefloorboardanangleagainstthefloorboard
inthepreviousrow,pressforwardand
folddownatthesametime.Leavethepanelina
somewhatupangledpositionwherethepanelsstart
toloc.Tomakethisfurthereasier,awedgewiththe
suitableanglecanbe
placedundertheplanknearthe
shortsidejointassupport.
Fig8.
Pushtoslidetheplankagainsttherowinfrontsoit
alignswiththefirstplank.Putitdownlikewiththe
firstplankwhenthefloorboardsarepositioned
tightlytogether.Thefirst/previousplankcannowbe
foldedcompletelydowntohorizontalpositionandif
awedgeis
useditcanbemovedtothenextshort
endjoint.