Can You Install Laminate Backwards

This means that you will install the female end into the male end instead of the.

Can you install laminate backwards.

On the male end of the laminate which should be the back side of the already installed portion. Install laminate backwards i want to replace one piece of my finished laminate floor as it happens the first piece i installed. Take a chisel and shave off the locking hump that in on the male end. Firstly plan to have a join in the middle of the 60mm cut piece so that you can engage the board s long join and then tap it along to the half way mark from one end of the board you will then be able to install the other board in the same way and tap it back until the end joint engages.

You will need some flooring glue that is designed for engineered flooring don t use elmers or wood glue bu engineered flooring glue. Taper both sides of the room. You may find yourself installing laminate in a room that is 6 inches narrower at one end than at the other. Now to do what i want to do i ahha to re install the first piece of flooring but need to squeeze it into the piece in front of it and next to it ie backwards.

This will leave a smooth tongue. I also have ran into two jobs in the last 6 months adding onto exsiting laminate from mannington they have changed the locking system from a few years back so how i took care of it and also changing directions is cut the one part of the locking system off put my sinch utiltty tape under then put a small bead of wood glue on the lip of the. Some of them are easly installed backwards. It can double or triple the time to install when working backwards and be prepared for twice the waste when working backwards.

That means you ll have to rip a severely tapered last row and it ll look ugly. I don t do doorway t caps no more but only ask the client to inform me if any bouncyness in the floor starts then i will come out and then cut open the doorway and install a t cap. Depends on the type of locking mechanism. I used the standard method of installation going from left to right away from the wall.

In this video i share how to install your laminate or vinyl plank backwards.