How To Lay Moisture Barrier For Laminate Flooring

Start in one corner of the room and spread the membrane out from there across the floor.

How to lay moisture barrier for laminate flooring. As moisture can also penetrate laminate flooring from walls make sure to place the vapour barrier so it extends up on each wall by three centimetres. Concrete substrate must be tested in accordance with the flooring manufacturers instructions. Since the laminate itself is not waterproof moisture from below can get into the laminate and cause it to rot.

A vapor barrier under laminate floor required for most laminate flooring installed over concrete. Floating Floor Installations When installing laminate or other floating floors over cement VCT ceramic tiles or kitchen vinyl use 6 mil poly sheeting plastic as the moisture barrier. Go along one edge of the room and tape your sheet to the subfloor.

Dont worry about this overlap now once your flooring is complete you will trim the vapor barrier by the wall and the remainder will be covered by your moldings. So Im only going to take about a three to four inch piece put my vapor barrier into position and then just tape it to the floor. This makes it vital that you install 6mm polyethylene barrier or an underlayment with an attached moisture barrier or both.

Overlap your underlayment 2 inches up the wall. Circular saw table saw miter saw jigsaw as well as hand saws. You can also paint the entire exterior surfaces using moisture barrier paint.

After a heavy rain concrete will soak up some of the moisture around it. Continue reading below Our Video of the Day. Floating Floor Installations When installing laminate or other floating floors over cement VCT ceramic tiles or kitchen vinyl use 6 mil poly sheeting plastic as the moisture barrier.

In order for it to work as it should you need to create a moisture-proof enclosure. Apply Moisture Barrier Cut out your moisture barrier and lay it on the subfloor then fasten pieces together using packing tape. In this video I am showing how to install laminate flooring for the first time.