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Installing Wood Laminate Flooring

Bob meets up with Fred Giuggio in the former barn where the crew is installing QuickStep wood laminate flooring. QuickStep is a glueless flooring. It's engineered using an 8-millimeter board. The boards just click together on all four sides. It has a 25-year stain, fade, wear, and moisture warranty and comes in 25 different colors including the "bianco" selected for the barn/studio. The crew puts the QuickStep Unisound 1/16 sound attenuating floating pad on top of the concrete slab and lays the QuickStep on top of that. It's quick and easy to install and since its uses no glue, post-installation cleanup is a breeze. During installation spacers are placed around the perimeter allowing 1/4-inch for expansion. Boards are staggered to prevent joints from lining up. A board is locked in on one side, positioned as close as possible to the next board, locked in and then tapped from the end to secure the mechanism. If a board is damaged it can be easily removed and replaced. The product has a vapor barrier on top with removable tape on the edges. The installers peel away the tape and stick the edges together so that they butts rather than overlap creating a uniform vapor barrier throughout the space. The product can be cut with a crosscut saw for installation around columns, etc. It cleans up with a damp or dry mop.
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Installing Wood Laminate Flooring

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" Red Georgia is here from -- Florida that the orient this so this is a revolutionary new type. Wood laminate -- clueless that's what's revolutionary about it clueless you know removed not only those nails that went -- leave. What's to keep it from just kind of popping up there on the -- out."

" The engineering is done this way it's done with an eight millimeter board when the two boards come together. -- And they lock on all four sides as you can see the -- put its --"

" That's the best part about what about it getting absorbing moisture and swelling up we have a 25 year wear -- in moisture warranty."

" And because of that we have."

" The stabilizer what we have Melanie underneath. -- plus we have moisture wear layer underneath OK and you get it in all sorts of 125 different colors that they would doing Bianco for the barn this and what we're pretty proud. What's the underlayment on top of the concrete we've got -- to -- the -- used to this is once sixty."

" Floating foam pad that's high density pad that sucks up a lot of the sound."

" Okay let's say hi to Kirk ward from Award flooring so how do you like putting this down I'll it's a great product."

" It's a time savers it's very fast and non."

" We we have the no glue situation helps you with the cleanup what are all these black things that I don't it -- we're creating a space around the perimeter for expansion have to leave a quarter of an inch expansion around the parameters to. So as it does where -- potent force that's expansion. And so you start off with staggered does stagnant stagnant."

" And then so that that -- joints don't line up let's see how obvious it -- together it just snaps in just like that. -- That's that's it. Let's watch the boys. Finally this stuff. So really that color is to it and it's just tapping it tight in place. You -- on the side. And then you get -- education laid into position lock it and then it happened in from the end okay and the mechanism makes up. But Kirk do you stick the seams together."

" We. We have eight vapor barrier on the top of the product oh look at that gap and and what it does is we have a removable tape here. And then what that does --"

" Finalized until it makes it one uniform vapor barrier throughout the entire space yeah and it saves us from -- tape it's a pretty nice."

" It's a faster way of getting it sealed."

" Great. So the stability of this material makes it very easy to cut definite and he's actually most people misuse the cross cuts aren't like that right through it right around columns or whatever it."

" This is gone in real time in about. 45 minutes so they're two thirds of the way done all right completed -- the -- let me ask you a couple of other questions for example. Maintenance with something like this you have to put any special. No actually we do have cleaning kits to go with a and it's just just a very very damp type of situation damp mop again like cleaning or even -- strike and yet I'm I'm rubbing my. Right across that there's even Mars but it doesn't very very it will not and in the nice part about this -- with us and 25 years to maintain warranties well. Now Kirk how will you make the transition from here the concrete slab in the utility area."

" OK what we'll do is we'll fasten this receiver for our transition down to the concrete. -- Molly's or adhesive and then we snap in this transition to finish off the edge. Because we have another floor coming into this nice job thanks."

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