Bending Laminate Flooring

Create super strong curves in wood by gluing thin pieces around a form.

Bending laminate flooring.

If water has seeped into the boards they may swell against one another which can cause the bow. When putting edging on use a heat gun to make the strip easier to bend. Make sure nothing is under the strip so you re sanding flat. Check this by ensuring that the horizontal surface edge and vertical edge come together perfectly with a t square.

Two areas are giving me trouble. It is essential to leave an adequate expansion gap when installing a laminate floor. Beading or floor skirting is a strip that is designed to cover the expansion gap left around the edge of a room for a laminate floor. Because fiberboard swells when it gets wet a wet laminate board pushes against the one next to it.

This video shows how to install scotia beading around a laminate floor. I ll start on a straight edge which holds up one end of laminate for you. Clamp the laminate strips to your table before sanding. I have a bay window so i need to take the beading around a rather tighter curve than it wants to follow and the door frames have quite awkward.

However i need to put beading around the edge because i didn t feel up to removing and replacing the skirting. I m laying laminate flooring which is going well. In order to stop any gaps bubbles or distorting of the laminate you need to make sure that the vertical edge around which the laminate will bend is perfectly square with the top surface of the counter. How to fix bowed floors.

Bowing or warping of floor boards can occur for several reasons. Make sure when sticking the edge you ve got the thinner section lined up with curve.