Installing Laminate Flooring Backwards

Keep this angle as you push the plank in until the laminate edges meet.

Installing laminate flooring backwards.

The laminate can bind up around door jambs and cause the laminate flooring to buckle. This means that the laminate flooring has to stop at each doorway less than three feet wide and leave a gap between the hallway and the room next to it. The flooring will be installed on a slab that has been cleaned of old floors and glue due to flood waters and will soon be prepped and properly leveled. In other words the tongue will have to face the opposite direction of the completed area so we can staple it in.

Raise the outside edge of the plank upward approximately 1. The gap should be covered with a t mold. Lots of people have issues working laminate backwards they will damage the back of the board where it needs to connect and then it causes problems it does n. To do so we have to extend the next row of boards through the area top to bottom.

The edges which lock together have just enough give to them that you can force them together. The already completed area can simply be stapled. I want the floor to completely flow together i don t want to use transiti. So when placing a board on the wrong edge of the installation you simply lay it flat use the block and gently tap it until the edges overlap and come together.

With back filling the installation runs backwards. Repeat previous steps to complete installation. We are planning to use an lvp flooring in the entire house 2400 sf.