Laying laminate in the doorway itself

In that case, if you chose laminate as a floor covering, in any case you will have to face a problem with the method of laying this material in the doorway. In our article, we offer you to get acquainted with all the necessary information describing how the laminate is laid in the doorway with your own hands.

In addition, it will consider the known options for laying this type of flooring, as well as a number of conditions that determine the choice of each of them.

Styling Features

Before you start the installation work, you should familiarize yourself with the requirements that apply to the elements of the floor covering section laid under the doors:

1. First, between the lower edge of the door leaf and the coating there must be some gap that allows the door leaf to move freely in both directions (usually one centimeter is enough for this). That is why when planning the position of the door height must be set in advance.
2. Laminate should be laid on a perfectly prepared (leveled) base, which has no noticeable deviations from the horizontal. Failure to comply with this condition is fraught with unpleasant consequences such as "heaving" and the impossibility of free opening the door leaves.
3. Thirdly, not all types of floor bases can be made with laminate, but only those that provide sufficient rigidity of the substrate (seamless cement floor, for example, or surfaces tiled, veneered, DVP).
4. In addition, it is not allowed to lay laminate flooring on any rigid bases, if some of their elements are loose or have mechanical damage.
5. It is also necessary to exclude and xylolite floors, characterized by a high level of residual moisture.

Technology laying laminate

When laying laminate in the doorway without a threshold, you must adhere to the following rules:

1. Installation of flooring elements should be carried out taking into account the technological (deformation) gaps of a certain size, which are then closed using a plinth.
2. Humidity in the room should not exceed 70%; otherwise, the laminate will begin to saturate with moisture and swell.
3. All connecting seams formed in the area of ​​the doorway between materials of different classes should be blocked with a special profile of a suitable color (aluminum or plastic).

Recall that the laminate coating should be laid on a dry, hard, perfectly flat and cleaned from small debris base. All visually noticeable irregularities should be carefully polished or leveled using a regular putty. Also, you should not forget that when laminate is used, a special substrate made of polyethylene foam is used (in some cases it is allowed to use modern cork coating).

As already noted, during the laying of the floor covering in the opening it is necessary to leave small gaps (about 3-5 mm), for fixing which special plastic plugs are used, which are removed immediately after the work is completed.

Note! In the area of ​​the doorway, the laminate is laid, as a rule, in a floating way, the implementation of which does not result in rigid bonding of the material to the plane of the base. In this method of attachment, the adhesive composition is applied only on its joints, as a result of which a solid coating is formed that is not connected in any way with the supporting base.

Choosing a method of installing laminate

The option of laying laminate in the doorway with a threshold (lower plank door frame) is the most difficult method of installation, which can be implemented in three ways:

• trimming the bottom of the box
• flooring before door installation,
• adjustment of the laminate panel under the gap between the bottom plate and the base of the floor.

In the first case, the bottom plate is cut to the thickness of the laminate panel supplied under the door. At the same time on the box in this place near the floor are made cuts used for its laying. To implement this option, you will need a regular handsaw for wood, with which you can prepare these cuts. During installation, the laminate board is put into prepared cuts and secured there. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that when preparing cuts one should act very carefully, since any accidental damage to the door can lead to undesirable consequences requiring the restoration of the entire box.

The second method involves laying laminate flooring before the door frame itself is installed. This option is applied, as a rule, in cases where the apartment is planned to overhaul with the replacement of all door blocks.

The last of the above options allows you to do without filing the bottom of the door frame and laying the floor covering directly into the gap under the door. It is quite natural that its realization is possible only in the presence of such a gap, i.e. at the corresponding height of the installed door. It is believed that with a minimum coefficient of thermal expansion of the door structure, it is quite possible to reduce the gap between the blade and the coating by 2-3 mm.

This is quite enough to correctly cut and tightly pressed to the base of the laminate panel would not interfere with the free movement of the door leaf. It is quite clear that the latter method of mounting the floor covering is possible only with increased accuracy of trimming the panel to be mounted.

It should be noted that all the above installation techniques combine one requirement. This is the high accuracy of all “fitting” operations that guarantee the required clearances.

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