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.