Artisan studios in colorado springs9/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Glue down installations pertain primarily to sheet vinyl and vinyl plank, although some of the wider wood product require gluing as well. Glue down is probably one of the more generally understood product installation methods, likely due to things like linoleum and VCT (vinyl composition tile) being so prominent years ago. A major advantage of floating floors is their ability to go over existing floors, avoiding expensive removal fees and potential asbestos testing (depending on the existing flooring). Floating floors must be installed after cabinets in order to not be pinned down by them. This means at walls, a gap is left beneath the baseboards at cabinets and vanities it is hidden by quarter round or base shoe and where it meets other flooring transitions, an end cap or T-cap is used to overlap the floor and allow it to move. ![]() In order for the floor to float but be contained, it must be bordered on all sides with some form of an overlap profile. The reason the floor remains detached is so that as the house moves and shifts over the years and throughout the seasons, the flooring does not develop gaps or buckle. This installation technique is just as it is named: the flooring floats over the substrate or existing flooring unattached to the house itself. Today’s floating floors mostly consist of laminate and rigid vinyl floors, but some wood floors have the ability to float as well. With a quality installation, those seams are often times completely unnoticeable.Ī floating floor may sound like a strange concept, but it has been commonplace in the industry for many years now. Since carpet almost always comes in 12′ wide rolls, rooms any wider than that will always have an unavoidable seam. Take a look at the diagram below to see how this works. So a room’s fills must be seamed up in a way that keeps the carpet all running in the same direction. Although it may seem bizarre, carpet actually does have somewhat of a grain to it, meaning that it all must run the same direction or it won’t look the same. In order to do this, measurements are taken and the largest “drops” (full 12′ wide pieces) are cut and then smaller “fill” pieces are seamed onto them in order to cover the entire room. However, before stretching the carpet, it must be seamed to fit the overall size and shape of the room. In a residential setting, the most common installation method is what is known as “stretched in.” This is performed by installing new tack strip or reusing existing tack strip around the perimeter of the room, and then stretching the carpet and essentially hooking the carpet onto the pins in the tack strip. ![]()
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