How To Install Laminate Wood Flooring On Walls

Install flooring parallel to the longest wall or focal point in the room.

How to install laminate wood flooring on walls.

Subscribe to lowe s youtube. Http bit ly 1bllmvd or head to our channel. For this tape to work the wall must be perfectly flat with variations no greater than 3 16 inches no peeling paint and no crumbling drywall. Don t try to hang laminate flooring from a wall covered with wallpaper or wood paneling.

Measure the width of the room from this wall and divide the distance by the width of the planks. Step 7 also to make sure you don t end up with a tiny sliver of flooring for the last row measure the length of the room and divide by the width of the plank not including the tongue or groove to determine how many rows of planks. When installing go from left to right along the longest straightest wall which is usually an exterior wall. Lumber liquidators has a better idea.

Use wood flooring tape. Download horizontal instructions download vertical instructions. Create a showpiece for your home in as little as a weekend. This will tell you what the width of the final row of planks should be.

Alterna is faster easier and cleaner to install than traditional tile. The only places we don t recommend are shower walls fireplace surrounds or any wall application that exposes it to continuous saturation or temperatures above 300 f.