Vinyl Floor Installation | How to install a floating click together floor

Today we are completely changing the look of the damaged family lake house with a Luxury Vinyl Floor Installation | LVP Flooring Install over existing Plywood and NASTY Laminate Flooring. These new vinyl plank floors are very easy to install, they cut very easily, click together fast as you can move and don't require a backing pad as it is included as part of the flooring plank.

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I am not exactly sure what was wrong with people in the 80s and why they installed such nasty one sheet laminate flooring! I suppose it was all that was available and it was the rage back then just like these LVP floors are all that right now. Maybe young bucks will be making fun of this floor 30 years from now!

LVP Installation is very easy:

1) Measure to make sure your room is square and accommodate if needed. If you need to hide some "Unsquareness" you can break up the difference and hide it under the trim board that will go around the room after the floor installed.

2) Make sure all nails, staples and foreign objects are removed from the floor or they will not allow the floor planks to sit flat and can telegraph through the planks.

3) Make sure the sub floor is flat, you can hide a bit of unevenness under these floors but it needs to be over a large distance. We had two spots that were no good, one I needed to plane and sand down, the other we used several layers of tar paper to fill the "hole". Worked perfect!

4) Installed your first row of planks making sure to leave a 3/8" gap along the walls. Again, you can hide some of the room unsquareness here if you need to, just make sure you are not tight against any wall as this can cause the floor to pop up as the seasons change. Yes, LVP floors still expand and contract a bit.

5) Install away! We found it best to tip up the plank and insert the long grove, make sure it is tight against the previous plank, snap down and use a mallet to close the short seam. Use a tapping tool to make sure the long seam is closed tight.

6) If you need to cut or drill holes in the vinyl planks it is very easy, this stuff cuts like butter!

7) That is really it! There are a few tips and tricks in the video to help you install the floor easy and to help prevent measurement mistakes.

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