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BlogsMichael Rossi's Landlording BlogFinally Started on the Floor

Posted over 17 years ago

Finally Started on the Floor

I finally got started on the kitchen floor of the 2 bedroom house today. Things went fairly smoothly and I got about 3/4 of the floor done. I am still not satisfied with the joints between the individual laminate panels. I re-read the instructions for the installation and was very careful with each piece of laminate, yet there are still wider gaps in some of the panels than I would like. This is an old house and nothing is square or perfectly level, so that may be having an effect on the job.

My brother-in-law has a very large rental business and I may talk to him about observing his next installation. He has a guy that installs his laminate and this guy does an excellent job. There may be some tricks of the trade that I need to learn from an expert.

Comments (1)

  1. Mike, first off I want to say sorry about the loss of a family member. I have also installed the same laminate flooring from Lowe's. What I found was that sometimes when you are joining the planks small debris or flaking from the tongues fall in between the planks and keep you from getting a good joint. This seemed to happen more often than I would have liked.

    Jesus Garcia, over 17 years ago