Laminate Flooring Expansion Gap Too Big

Oktober 28, 2022

Do You Need An Expansion Gap For Laminate Flooring?

When laying laminate flooring, it is essential to leave an expansion gap of at least 10-12mm around the perimeter of the floor. This includes:

walls

radiator hoses

adjacent floor

stairs

kitchen items, etc.

Experienced and qualified parquet installers advise using a larger laminate floor expansion gap in large areas. Expansion joints are essential in all laminate flooring installations. This will cause the laminate floorboards to lift, often causing kickback. To avoid any spacing issues when laying laminate flooring, we recommend using wood or laminate spacers. Spacers ensure the correct gap between flooring planks and adjacent obstacles, such as walls or light fixtures. Egger Laminate Flooring has an excellent Laminate Flooring FAQ section on their site, which also has some great advice.

For laminate flooring, expansion space is needed around walls, fixed objects, any vertical surfaces, and even screws and other fasteners used to hold something in place, such as a closet slider on the floor. laminate. Expansion space walls and fixed objects

When installing laminate flooring, adequate expansion space should be left around all walls and vertical surfaces. Without the proper expansion space, a floor can warp and pull apart due to the normal expansion and contraction of laminate floating flooring. Expansion space should be left around fixed objects such as pipes, cabinets, fireplaces, sliding glass door tracks, floor outlets, floor vents and thresholds. Failure to leave adequate expansion space locks the floor and can result in floor buckling or warping and separation at floor joints.