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Pergo Floor Installation
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" Let's say -- Pergo floor is a joke. Well now you're doing the preliminary work here yes the the job. The condition here in the middle of downtown Boston is a hundred year old concrete floor. Do you need to put down a moisture barrier like us well Bobbie in most. Concrete applications we do put a polyethylene. Vapor barrier primarily for moisture okay. But then he's the real important product is the what you call this -- board yes we call this this is purples wistful walk. Is it sound deadening underlayment that we use on the Pergo and -- that's war is war sound deadening and wide open areas. All right so that when this is. I'm not. Under the Florida situation like this where you have neighbors right below you this would debt in the sounded you're making here from going downstairs and bothering them that's right. And it sees it all I would product yes it what it is it's they would fibrous material compressed. For density OK so that it's about a quarter inch death and it comes in very very. Manageable sizes. And you just don't have to glue it down or anything it's lay it down. Over a year your existing conditions right correct with a two foot by three foot or -- it looks like. And you can cut it with a matte knife. All right well let's talk about the Pergo flooring itself the installation here's a little bit quirky and that the the design the architect's design is that the whole thing be laid down at a fifteen degree. And so we're cutting the starter pieces that fifteen degrees. So that when they bought up against the sidewall over here the party walk the line of the layout itself is exactly that -- a fifteen degree corresponds with. The design of the elevated platform behind us. Now Mike's doing here is he's gluing the groove gonna glue free growth and he's going to use a strap. -- will squeeze the -- together behind you over here you can see the job. The system that you're talking about so it's a stress like it share clamp. Right these clamps are installation straps and what they are. Squeezes her go together. In a ratchet system. You pull it until the noticed night I act like. You leave it there until you come back for the next -- okay you know -- so he just laid this out a couple of minutes ago let's see how is doing back over here. OK so actually three are laid down here he goes and he puts another one of these clamps down and -- it sit tight. And that of course we've as the glue what do you do you have to worry about this glue well the blues you want to walk up wash off. Just within eight to create -- seal opening want to fall on the floor. -- The talking to the -- into the little crack -- threat or what kind of glue is it. We use a PVA glue polyvinyl acetate which is designed for our core yet. For a tight bond and sold floor will stay together. For years."
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" Floor looks great. They thought it's beach yes the beach beach -- You've had told me earlier approximately seven dollars to put right yes installed okay do retail stores now what's he doing over here. K mastic mean that we just floated this product all over the place right what Jon Stewart -- parking -- adhesive to put down a step. There's only time you want to use Pergo. In -- down situation is when you have steps involved exactly and reason for that book is because of safety you don't want to step to move like your. Going down instantly sure. OK now he's pre cut them again with these fifteen degree angle. That's everything in the whole loft is going and skew angle like this right. And when he comes out to the -- it's also been pre cut -- For the facial -- they'll be putting on afterwards right. And because you get the adhesive you don't have to. Put any glue on the terms and groups the only time Pergo is glue in the group is for the the floating system that's right. To keep the moisture out of the court. All right now we're applying it staircase nosing associate threat yes he's going to be using a construction adhesive to put the nosing on. For a strong bonds you can your traffic -- exactly the that if you're putting a finish -- just a little added support and then -- six that bill he's going to use our finishing party which exact match to the to the Pergo floor. Not bad. Thanks match. Now on the upper part of the platform back here the raised portion we've got an unusual situation you've you've already laid out. The Pergo along the width. With the groom facing in this direction right for a and you always want to apply the glue to the group not to the time correct. Essentially we're building in the group. With the regular adhesive. And then adding this piece which is just a filler spline of the work and that will allow us to reverse direction so that now. We start putting pieces and with the -- facing in that correct exactly. -- wallet is really rich Joey looks fabulous. Thank you and of course because of the installation on a fifteen degree angle we've got some run over on this step which will just cut with a little cordless trim saw."
" Well what I like about the Pergo floor is the ease of installation I mean all of this goes down so quickly it's is the floating system except. In the steps here we saw a minute ago how we were putting it down with a season. But it's easy to maintain any really wears well."