How To Properly Lay Linoleum On A Wooden, Concrete Floor, On Plywood With Your Own Hands In An Apartment, In A Room + Installation Video

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

How to lay linoleum with your own hands - the correct laying on the floor

Here it is, rolled into beautiful rolls, lying in the middle of the room, the linoleum we bought. The whole family is wondering where to get an uncle who can quickly and efficiently lay him on the floor.

Set aside your thoughts in a distant box and do all the work yourself with your own hands - save family money and get moral pleasure from the work done. Approaching this issue without haste and thoroughly, having thought through everything and providing for all the nuances, your floor will be transformed beyond recognition.

Content

• 1 Room preparation
• 2 Most Necessary Tools and Materials
• 3 Correct laying of linoleum with your own hands in the room, toilet of the apartment (on a wooden, concrete floor or tile)
• 4 Watch the video: we lay the material on an uneven surface
• 5 Video: How to lay on plywood
• 6 Video: Linoleum on the kitchen floor

Room preparation

Step 1. Freeing the premises.

As always, all repair work begins with the most unpleasant and difficult - we take out all large-sized furniture and various household items from the room. We clear the space for activity as much as possible. If linoleum is laid in the room where you live, for example, in a two-room apartment, then we lay the linoleum in turn - first in one room, then in another. Furniture and household utensils, respectively, are transferred to the room where work is not in progress.

Step 2. Preparation of the floor surface.

The room is free, we proceed to the preparation of the floor surface itself. Regardless of what floor you had previously, before laying linoleum, it is necessary to ensure that the surface on which we lay linoleum is flat and clean.

We remove all the skirting boards around the entire perimeter of the room, because in the process, we will cut the covering directly to the wall.

If the skirting boards are planned to be reused, on top of the laid cover, we do it carefully, trying not to break it. We sequentially remove each plank, number it on the back, put the same number on the wall so that during installation we do not have to solve the rebus, where which segment was.

If the floor has been repaired for a long time, the floors have been painted many times, then it is almost impossible to remove the skirting boards whole. And if you also consider that it used to be a practice to nail the plinth into the gap between the floor and the wall with 100 mm nails, then it is definitely better to buy new plinths. And they will look much more beautiful on the new coating.

We figured out the skirting boards, let's move on to the floor itself.

Of course, if a complete overhaul is being made in an apartment, then the best option to make the floor perfectly flat is to use a self-leveling floor.

For a base made of concrete or cement-sand screed, this is generally the best option.

But, basically, the floor that needs to be laid is either a pre-assembled grooved painted board or an old parquet that has dried out from old age. The grooved board eventually bends in the transverse direction and “waves” appear on the floor, the old parquet falls out and has large differences between the planks.

If you do not plan to completely remove the old floor, then you can choose one of the many options on how to remove all these irregularities and make the surface even:

• cover the floor with sheets of chipboard;
• loop and secure the drop-down bars;
• make a self-leveling floor using the technology intended for this type of work and special leveling compounds.

Often with such a floor, another problem arises with prolonged use - it starts to creak very strongly. In this case, additional operations will have to be performed to eliminate the squeak.

The whole point of the preparatory operations should be reduced to achieving a flat surface and cleanliness of the floor. Drops, ledges, pebbles left on the floor and other debris after covering the floor with linoleum will certainly appear, and in places of intense wear (for example, on aisles), the coating will fray or tear.

We achieve the evenness of the surface by the above methods, and cleanliness - by thorough cleaning - we vacuum and wash the floor, before laying the linoleum.

Step 3. Prepare the necessary tools and conditions for laying linoleum.

Linoleum can be laid only at positive temperatures. The optimum temperature is from 15 to 25 ˚С. This is due to the fact that when cooled, this flooring loses its elasticity and becomes brittle. Because of the same feature, it is necessary to allow the roll to fully warm up if you brought it home in winter. At negative temperatures outside, the warm-up time inside the room should be at least 12 hours.

Before cutting the sheet to the walls of the room, it is advisable to roll out the roll and let it rest in this state until the “waves” are removed.

The most essential tools and materials

While the coating is curing, we are preparing the tool. To mark up and fit a piece, we need:

- ruler and tape measure;

- pencil;

- scissors;

- stationery knife.

If laying linoleum on the floor will be done in a large room (over 25 square meters), you need to purchase glue and tools for applying it to the floor and covering. In rooms of a smaller area, gluing of the coating is not required, the so-called "free" laying is performed.

Correct laying of linoleum with your own hands in a room, an apartment toilet (on a wooden, concrete floor or tile)

Step 1. Positioning the sheets.

Our sheets "lay down" and you can start laying linoleum. We place the sheet in such a way that gaps do not form around the perimeter, but on the contrary there is a uniform overlap along the entire perimeter of the room. You can immediately adjoin one of the sides of the sheet to the wall, provided that the wall is straight and a uniform gap of 3-5 mm is formed between the linoleum line and the wall. In this case, the work is simplified, and the piece will only have to be cut to three walls.

If you have a large room covered with several sheets, first we combine the joints of the sheets, and then we level everything relative to the perimeter of the room until an even overlap is formed on the walls.

Before laying linoleum on a wooden floor, you need to cover it with plywood sheets

The next question is: how to lay linoleum if it has a repeating pattern? In this case, one more is added to all the above operations - it is necessary to combine the picture. Moreover, we combine it first at the joints of the sheets, if 2 or more strips are laid in the room. Then we combine the drawing in the doorway with the drawing of the next room, if we spread the same linoleum in different rooms. All alignment operations are performed by shifting one web relative to another and, accordingly, the length of the strips should allow this. How to correctly calculate the required length, I described in detail in the article " How to calculate linoleum on the floor and save a lot of money on it."

Another important point before you start cutting the linoleum around the perimeter of the room. If you are laying linoleum with a pattern (for example, a linoleum pattern imitates parquet laid in symmetrical squares), after all the alignments of the sheets, pay attention to the pattern. If it forms straight lines across the floor, these lines should be parallel to the walls of the room and the wall should not “cut off” part of the design. If this happens, it is necessary to turn the entire plane of the laid sheets clockwise or counterclockwise and achieve parallelism.

Step 2. Cut the sheets to the walls.

The last time we check that the sheets of linoleum overlap the walls and that no gaps form anywhere between the edge of the sheet and the wall and between the sheets themselves. If all is well, proceed to pruning.

We start from any convenient angle. We slightly bend the linoleum along the wall and make marks with a pencil on the back of the coating so that when cutting off the excess strip between the coating canvas and the wall, a gap of 3-5 mm remains. (see photo below)

Moving along the wall, we make such marks in increments of 20-30 cm.

We bend the linoleum completely, use a ruler to connect our marks and cut off the extra strip.

It was easier for me - on the reverse side, the coating had a pattern in the form of a cage, which made it possible to make a cut without connecting the marks, and to navigate along the lines on the canvas itself.

While there is no skill, it is necessary to put marks so that you get a small overlap of the covering on the wall than a large gap between the wall and the covering. Better then make another cut and precisely fit the edge of the linoleum to the wall. After 10 meters of sidetracking, you will have experience and you will begin to set marks very accurately the first time.

Thus, we go along the entire perimeter of the room and adjust our covering sheets.

Step 3. Cut the cover on the outer corners.

If the room has a large protruding angle (as in the diagram below), the cut must be started from this angle. Moreover, you must first first cut the corner, and then do an exact trimming as described in step # 2.

To do this, after positioning the sheet with an even overlap on all walls, we measure 2 sizes A and A1. Add 2 cm to each size for an exact cut and connect the points with a line. This will be a preliminary cut line along one corner wall.

Similarly, we measure the size B and B1 at the second wall of the protruding corner, add 2 cm to each size. This will be a preliminary cutting line along the second wall of the corner. Cut out a protruding corner according to the resulting marking.

Since we cut off the linoleum with stocks, we have an overlap of 2 cm on the walls of the protruding corner, so that the sheet rests against the corner and can be accurately cut, it is necessary to make a cut, as shown in the photo below

After this technique, the sheet will precisely adhere to the corner, and the excess floor covering will go to the wall.

We make markings along the walls to be cut off the corner, as described in step # 2, bend the corner and connect the marks with a ruler.

Using the resulting exact markings, cut off an extra strip along one wall and similarly along the other.

This completes the process of fitting the flooring sheet to the walls of the room. It remains to make joints on the threshold, at the junction of pieces of different rooms. If you used several strips for laying linoleum, weld them and the joints on the sills. For the production of all these final works, it is necessary to allow the coating to mature for 1-2 days, so that it finally lies down in its new place.

How cold welding of sheets is carried out at the joints using cold welding, and how the installation of a plastic skirting board is carried out, I will write in the next posts. If you are interested in this topic, and to be the first to receive articles by e-mail, please subscribe to the blog update.

Watch the video: we lay the material on an uneven surface

Video: How to lay on plywood

Video: Linoleum on the kitchen floor

In conclusion, I suggest watching a small video "Laying linoleum video", evaluate our work and express your opinion on the result in the comments.

Yours faithfully