How To Install Locking Wood Flooring

Each piece fits together like a puzzle.

How to install locking wood flooring.

Measure that number out from the starting wall then snap a chalk line at that point the length of the room. As with so many other do it yourself jobs careful. Immediately wipe up any glue that squeezes through the boards. Here s how to install click lock engineered hardwood flooring.

Put the first board up against the mason s line with the groove side facing away from the walls. Note that some engineered hardwood flooring products have a click lock design. Apply wood glue to the tongue and groove seams. Once you lay the tongue in the groove it should click lock and fit like a glove.

Use 1 2 inch spacers to assist in maintaining the 1 2 inch expansion gap between the first row of flooring planks and the wall. Then connect the pieces carefully folding and tapping the new piece to rest on the subfloor. When installing additional rows work from left to right. You shouldn t have to wrestle with the floorboards to get them to lay flat and lock into place.