How To Install Floating Sheet Vinyl Flooring

Measure the dimensions of your floor so you can find its area in order to calculate how much vinyl you.

How to install floating sheet vinyl flooring.

Take the doors from their hinges. Remove the floor trim moulding with a pry bar. Remove the furniture appliances or toilet. Lay the first row of vinyl plank flooring along the wall leaving the manufacturer recommended amount of expansion space.

Your particular brand of loose lay vinyl may require a slightly different size expansion gap so read the manufacturer s directions carefully. If the subfloor is. Slowly wedge the pry bar between the trim and wall inserting a small block of wood behind. Continue to work across the room making sure each.

Proper subfloor preparation can make or break your vinyl floor installation. Lay out and cut a template just as you would for standard sheet vinyl. If the flooring has a pattern in it align the template for the most desirable layout. Butt the planks end to end overlap the adhesive strips and press down firmly using a hand roller to administer even.

Tape the template to the vinyl flooring and transfer the marks with the framing square and compass. Felt backed sheet vinyl floors install using a multi purpose latex adhesive. Spread out the vinyl on a clean floor that is larger than the template tape the template to it and cut the vinyl to shape. Unroll the vinyl flooring on a clean surface and tap the template to it.