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Engineered flooring is a layered composition flooring, meaning that the top, decorative layer is real hardwood and the subsequent layers are made of plywood or particle board. In short, engineered flooring provides the same look as real hardwood flooring without the associated cost and upkeep.
To install engineered flooring, you will need a chop saw, table saw, a small hardwood flooring nailer and floor adhesive if installing the flooring over a concrete sub floor.
1.) Measure the room you will be installing the engineered flooring in to calculate how much engineered flooring you will need. As a rule of thumb, purchase 10% more product than you originally anticipate to allow room for error.
2.) If you are not working in a square room, you will want to install the flooring planks parallel to the longest wall.
3.) Lay your first row of planks with the tongue side, or the side with the lip, facing toward you and away from the wall. The last piece of engineered flooring probably will not fit perfectly. Use your chop saw to cut it to size.
4.) Lay your second row of planks with the groove side facing the tongue side of the previous row, interlocking the planks as you go. The last piece of engineered flooring probably will not fit perfectly. Use your chop saw to cut it to size.
5.) Using your nailer, nail the tongue of each piece of flooring to your sub floor.
**Note: if you are installing the engineered flooring over a concrete sub floor, you will want to glue the flooring to the floor rather than nail it.
6.) Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5 until all planks have been laid, staggering the pieces as you go for a more aesthetically pleasing look (i.e., you don’t want all of your seams to line up).
7.) After all the flooring has been laid, you may find that you need to cut some pieces of engineered flooring in half long ways to fit against the baseboard. Use your table saw to cut these pieces to size.
As a rule of thumb, a good installation will have a quarter inch or less gap around the perimeter of the room for quarter round to be installed.
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