Laminate Laying Tool

The flooring must be beautiful, high-quality and neat. The laminate meets these requirements, as it looks modern, has a long service life and is easy to install. Any person who has minimal construction skills can lay laminate flooring. It will take only free time and familiarization with the styling technology. You need to know what kind of tool for laying the laminate is needed for the work to be done quickly and efficiently. We will talk about this in this article.

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Essential Supplies

Before proceeding with the installation of the coating and answer the question, what tools are needed for laying the laminate, consider what you need from building materials:

• Masking tape to limit the jigsaw.
• Waterproofing film.
• Conventional adhesive tape for gluing the joints of the substrate.
• The substrate, with which small bumps are eliminated and the coating is insulated.
• Silicone sealant for filling cracks and gaps.
• A mixture for leveling obvious defects on the basis of the entire floor.

After purchasing supplies, you can prepare a tool for laying laminate flooring.

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Necessary tools

Most of the necessary tools that are needed are used in everyday life. If something is not there, then they must be purchased or borrowed from friends.

Electric jigsaw or hacksaw

You should not buy a professional tool if you do not have one. But even the cheapest copies are unreliable, since products with low power can quickly fail.

You will need this tool when laying a laminate for cutting and sawing boards. If you use a hacksaw, then it should be with fine teeth, if you do not have a gap between the bottom of the door frame and the base of the floor covering.

Important! Choose a jigsaw with a minimum power of 500 watts, a well-known brand in the middle price category.

Laminate Clamp or Laminate Clamp

This is a curved plate with a thickness of at least 5 mm. At the edges of the plate, bends are made in different directions, but always at an angle of 90 degrees. One edge should be wider than the other.

It is used to tack the last boards, which are laid along the walls. It is necessary for an even distribution of forces along the entire length. This bracket makes it possible to preserve the edge of the laminate when tamping the panels with a hammer.

With a wide edge, the clamp is applied to the end of the laminated board, and with a hammer they beat on a narrow one.

Pad block

It is necessary for knocking out each lamella so that they clearly fit together. Applying the lock, you don’t have to worry, as all the castle joints will remain intact. The bar can be made of plastic or wood.

Feather Drills

Used for accurate and accurate drilling. With their help, holes are made in the laminate for heating pipes or in order to lay other water pipes.

Important! The holes should be 4-6 mm wider than the passing pipes.

Wedges for a laminate restrictive

Required for mounting boards to the wall. With their help, you can leave a gap of 8-12 mm, which is necessary for the thermal expansion of the laminate panels in the off-season. These gaps are covered with skirting boards.

Other tools:

• Interchangeable files that fit your model of electric jigsaw.
• Roulette 5 m. It is best with a sealed iron tip that will cling well to the canvas and not ride on it.
• Hammer or mallet. It will be needed to accurately connect the floor strips and fit them. With a hammer, the boards are snapped and tamped.
• Clerical knife. It is necessary for opening packages with a laminate. With it, you can also cut the substrate under the floor covering.
• A simple pencil. For marking a laminated coating.

Important! It is best to use a pencil with a soft stylus.

• Square 30-centimeter. It is used for marking corners.
• Goniometer or protractor. It is useful if the coating is laid diagonally. You will need an angle of 90 degrees, with which you will mark lines. On them and elements will be cut off.
• Awesome. Used for the final padding of the panel.
• Drill. Both electric and manual will do. With its help, holes are made for self-tapping screws during installation of the screed from plywood sheets.

Important! It happens that there is no tamping bar at hand. Never hammer the laminate locks with a hammer so as not to damage them. Use an unnecessary piece of one of the boards, dock the locks and very carefully hit the laminate tiles.

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Using new tools

We considered the most popular tool for laying laminate, but professionals recommend using more advanced tools that are offered by engineers from the German company Wolfcraft.

These tools include:

• A machine that serves for cutting PVC plates. This is a dust-free and silent cutting of panels without the use of a hacksaw or an electric jigsaw. Cutting with a machine is performed at a right angle. This device is very easy to use, you do not need to make much effort. This result is due to the special structure of the blade in the machine.
• The square that automatically divides the angle. This design makes it possible to effortlessly and quickly measure the angle of the walls that are in contact, and transfer the result to the laminate panel without problems. The scale starts at 30 degrees.
• Template for marking flooring. With it, you can quickly mark the place of cut of the final row.
• Contour for applying forms and bends of the laminate. It is necessary for marking cut lines. With its help, it is easy to display the form, and after that - apply it to the laminate sheet, so that then, for example, cut out decor elements or semicircles under the pipes. You can also combine template designs from one to the other.

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We examined what tools are needed for laying laminate do it yourself. Most likely, most of them are in your home. Any of the tools can be replaced with improvised tools, the main thing is to do the work carefully.