here is a question for the wood experts"which is the easiest laminate and wood product that you prefer to install"?.
Re: its all gone quiet in the wood flooring forum ?? LoL, great question to ask a wood expert to see what the easiest laminate (melamine plastic stuff) is :lol: :lol: As for the most easiest, hardwearing, load-bearing wood-engineered floor - there's nothing (at the moment) that beats the Original Duoplank produced in The Netherlands Worst: many - if not all - click-systems
The modern laminate clix i dont have gripes with especially when they get to be thicker than 8mm but woods i would have thought would be better?.
No matter how fancy a name or if applied to laminate, wood-engineered or solid boards - nothing is simpler and easier to install (in any circumstances) than old fashion, properly routed T&G construction. No one has even managed to come up with a decent workable solution for the click part on the short joint - most break off. We simply hate every click system - and yes, we're old fashion :lol: Strangely enough, none of the manufacturers we work with - all independent and most in The Netherlands - for high quality wood-engineered floors, use a click-system. If it really adds value sure they would have made the switch too, but they haven't (and they frequently come with innovations of their own, but leave the quality T&G intact)
Installing last rows, next to wall, next to fireplaces, next to other obstacles. It's the angle you need to have - if you can't make that angle you'll have to cut off the click-part. The "quality" of the click system on shortest joints. T&G is simple, easy to install everywhere, no matter what to obstacle. As in: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I dont get why they make click systems on solid/engineered, like wood u like, I dont think you can beat a decent t & g, specialy when your going under door frames. I dont use any lamanate apart from quickstep I think it has the best loc, balterio and Pergo are pretty good tho
hello wood you like, i normally sand off the small lip on groove section and apply a bead of pva on click systems that require a tiltiing action to lock. is this an acceptable practice? :?:
Hi vman Yes, that would be the only solution for it. This way you also make sure there is a firm bond between the last row and the rest of the floor. It does show that click-systems are only quicker to install when you have an absolute straight room and you can start at the only door in there ;-) As for easier for DIY-ers - you don't want to know how often we receive cries for help in our inbox from people having bought in to the "so easy to install and glueless floors".
By far the easiest laminate system to install has got to be Quick-step - never had a problem installing it. There are some manufacturers of engineered wood that also use the Quick-step locking system on their flooring but as WYL says none of the click systems make life easy. I think they have been introduced by the manufacturers to fool the diy market into thinking that because no glue is involved it is easier to install - until they get to the last rows!!!! I have just put down 90m2 of Tuscan - glued down over underfloor heating - in a barn conversion but luckily there were no door casings or skirting so it was pretty straight forward otherwise it would have been a bit of a pig.
haro do a decent engineered click as do kahrs and quickstep. But you can't beat T&G kersaint cobb do a decent enough range.
There's a few engineered ranges available with the uniclic / unilin profile. As good to install as the Quickstep laminates, can be either tilted and clicked or tapped together flat. Quickstep themselves now have a range of engineered but they're pricey.
Yeh the quickstep engineered stuff made my jaw drop when i seen the prices lol What others have you seen, are you thinking about?
