He does not have to be as carefull cutting if he has an extra 1 2 inch provided by the 1 4 round.
Installing laminate flooring without quarter round.
A laminate floor is a floating floor meaning it is not fastened directly to the subfloor.
In fact laminate flooring can be installed in almost every room in your home including kitchens since it doesn t have to be glued down and doesn t involve grout or mortar.
I had to be creative with the toilet supply line because it was mounted low but it worked out you can also see the thickness in that picture and that is installed over a floating laminate floor with 1 4 gap.
In this video i am showing how to install laminate flooring for the first time.
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It can be installed over any other tightly bonded flooring making it ideal for retrofits.
How to install laminate flooring.
Planks can be cut with a hand saw circular saw or flooring cutter and most laminate flooring comes in planks that simply snap together with a tongue.
Install baseboards and molding remove the spacers around the border and install baseboards and quarter round molding covering the plastic moisture barrier on the wall and the gap between the wall and the flooring.
Installing laminate flooring is a snap literally.