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Learn with Leo, our carpentry teacher, step by step and tricks to install laminate flooring correctly. http://www.bricocrack.tv. Didactic Guide Tutorial DIY Carpentry Laminate floors or floors Floating floor. Topic: Complete guide to install laminate flooring: place insulation, slats, overcome obstacles and make final touches. Laminate flooring is also known as floating flooring or click flooring. If you are starting out in DIY, this guide will help you learn slowly because it has an educational approach. If you are not a beginner, you can use the explanations to review your technique and, surely, we will discover some tricks. In this Guide you will learn: 1. How to prepare everything necessary to carry out the installation: from checking the condition of the floor and its level, to removing the skirting board and cutting the door frames when you want the flooring to go from one room to another to expand the visual sensation of space. 2. How to choose the insulation that best suits you based on the features you need (thermal, acoustic, anti-humidity, etc.) and how to install it. 3. How to lay out the plan and decide the direction of the slats before installing them. How to cut them and how to place them from the first row to the last. Maintaining the perimeter joint, saving the jambs, and resolving the meeting with the door and with a step. You will see in great detail how to install the corresponding finishing profile. You will also discover how useful it is to have a false square when we have to install the slats against an out-of-square wall, that is, when the meeting between two walls does not form a right angle. 4. And, finally, you will learn how to save the radiator pipe, to cover a staircase with slats and place a step profile, to mount the skirting board or baseboard (with staples and with adhesive and nails) making the corresponding mitres and joints and to apply a finishing putty. In addition, there are a lot of tips and tricks that Leo will give you while installing and that we hope will be of great help to you for your next flooring installation project. You might also be interested in: Applying levelling paste • Applying levelling paste (Bricocrack) Adapting or removing the skirting board • Adapting or removing the skirting board or plinth... Putting finishing profiles for laminate floors • Putting finishing profiles for laminate floors... More information on DIY, Carpentry and Tools at http://www.bricocrack.tv/ Presented by Leo Naranjo. Follow us also on Facebook / bricocrack and Twitter / bricocrack