How to Install Vinyl Plank Flooring Quick and Simple

so in today's video we are gonna install a new plank floor system and I got a trick for you this is not MDF this is not a laminate this is vinyl yes this is totally vinyl floor comes with a brilliant texture cork underlay super quiet so if you're looking for that kind of install stay tuned there's been a lot of changes in the flooring industry over the last 20 years let's face it the old standard of carpet everywhere and maybe hardwood tile in the bathroom is gone there are new products coming out it seems like every six months to a year and again we have another one here this is a vinyl plank now a lot of you may have seen vinyl plank available at the local building store or over at like your local Costco this is not your vinyl plank you're gonna find there this is the Turley's everwood premier it's a brilliant series the stuffs runs about five to six dollars a square foot so beware if you're looking for a floor that's gonna last a long time this is a good choice for you if you're looking for a quick fix this is probably out of your price range now when you're gonna install a floor like this you want to keep two things in my preparation and then preparation okay it all comes down to how clean your floor is you can never remove the dirt under a floating floor once you've gotten started so you always want to vacuum do all your sanding on any patches and you're working in the room get yourself swept and vacuumed then double check your floor for squeaks and screws keep your drill handy as you're going if you hear a squeak in the floor stop what you're doing and take some time throw some extra screws in because you don't want to have a squeak in your floor when you're done that would be almost impossible to fix hmm now I have seen a lot of installation videos related to this type of product or different plank flooring and they all kind of follow the same theme right if you've seen them they have their little clip system they have little wedges you put around the perimeter of the room you try your best to keep things square with that and to be honest with you I've tried installing that that years ago and it drove me nuts so what I did is I developed a better system and I'm gonna share it with you first you got to pick which wall you want in most cases you're going to run this parallel with the longest all in the room in this particular place it's open-concept main floor so we had two different options we could run with so the client would discussed it they liked this direction so we'll do what the client says next get out your trusty laser and at both ends of the room you want to measure off the wall at some point or another something healthy like three inches all right we'll do that over here three inches here's why instead of using wedges I'm gonna put this level laser level on my mark at both ends of the room if you're working alone just set something up at the other end where the mark is so it'll help you to identify when you're on that spot there we go BAM now what I want to do just check I'm in here along the wall everywhere you go and I'm noticing that most of my measurement is pretty consistent it's a little tighter in here plus or minus the quarter beautiful so now I know the wall is relatively straight there's a bit of a bull bow here so when I'm putting the first few boards down I want to make sure that I'm not sliding underneath the baseboard but just touching the baseboard here it'll open a bit of gap of both ends and then I'm gonna be fine because I'm gonna use a quarter round to cover it when I'm done so if you like me you like to do things fast you don't want to waste your time what I do is I just start hit the baseboard I drop it there's my first board done when I get to my heat register vents now of course they have the ever click system with these floors so it is brilliant no need to be hammering everything around once you put it together it's just done I just mark right on the floor when I'm going mark my heat register vents I'd rather drill a hole when I'm done and then come back and use my jigsaw to cut it out because that helps to keep the integrity of all of this together because when you're first starting you know we all know I mean it's hard enough to keep this stuff straight as it is right so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my handy dandy tool about I'm gonna cut a few more boards cuz I like to build three or four rows at a time it helps keep everything straight and square and you're not always running back and forth and fussing around closing gaps and making adjustments alright so here we go we're ready to cut our boards generally you always want to cut from the left side because that's going to go under the trim so I want to have a board that is about 3/4 and then 1/2 and then maybe something that's like around 2/3 all right that's a good way to start keep the joints away from each other a nice distance now there's a different ways that you can cut this stuff you read the instructions online it says use a knife let's try that can you just score it god that's not easy hit it again [Music] yeah that just seems dangerous you can use a chop saw or you can do what I did grab my laminate floor cutter and see if that works yep I don't know why the online instructions don't include laminate floor cutters but that worked brilliant we're gonna go with that system from now on so what we're doing here is this just a unit click system okay we're just gonna put the stuff together really quite simple the idea is just get the first couple of rows in okay now you can see because this is tongue and groove on both sides you can't just shove it in with your hands so there's different techniques there's this technique where you can do an entire row of the room like this and then you can lay it in together and you can leave that down and that works if you're working in a room that's gonna be 20 feet long I cut in that systems unfortunately isn't gonna work for you trying to maneuver all those boards in at the same time it's gonna take three or four people so if you're working alone unfortunately the only thing you have left is a tapping block for me the best way to make a tapping block let's just take a scrap piece of the floor and cut it down to size okay then I got both edges that I can work with all right so here's the other way to install your board with both joints do the short side first and here's why this vinyl and cork has a tongue and groove if you can look at that in this that's a really long piece of flooring I put that one in and then start tapping from the other side it takes a lot of force to force that because there's a lot of a lot of resistance because of the kind of texture we're dealing with now this is gonna operate a lot like my laminate floor video little of tap just to seal the joint it locks nice and tight okay you don't have to beat the living daylights out of this just a little tap and then all of these joints are locked now you'll see the floor moving all over the place when we're doing this and now this is where the trick comes in so that you don't have this problem so generally when you're doing a plank flooring the problem you run into is everything's moving around as you're using the click system because you've got to use a certain amount of force to make it work so these floating floors tend to slide all over the room to keep that from happening with vinyl you can actually screw it down I would recommend every six inches right near the edge where your quarter-round is going to cover it make sure you've lined it up really good you don't want to over commit with this program and then be moving around later just grab a few screws for every plank when you're all done you can pull the screws out later so that you don't have any bumps where you're putting your cord around down I'm just going to her a little tapping block that we made look at that that's closing up really nice beautiful alright so that covers most of the basics of how to install this floor of course you know that when you get to the transitions of the doors make sure you can slide this underneath your casing or install your casing after your flooring that's always my preference and one more thing about this flooring this particular product this company has developed a tool for maintain its over time if you have a damaged piece of flooring like this you want to remove it they have a special stretcher it's kind of like a rib spreader and you can put it down on the floor and you can pull the floor apart and then you can lift the board out and then reinstall a new one this is why the manufacturers suggest that you have room around the outside of the floor okay so that it not for expansion contraction purposes but for maintenance purposes okay so when you're done doing your floor like this make sure you pull out your screws cuz one day down the road you might need to make the call and then I can swing by with my rib spreader and take care of that damage as a quick note it doesn't come in every box but there is instructions and all other recommendations here one of the recommendations is to put down a six mil poly not as a moisture barrier but more to help make it easier in case you ever have to do maintenance so the floral slide we have installed the quarter inch luan which is a real smooth surface and we aren't gonna see the need for the plastic here so you don't do that if you feel necessary one other question might have is because it's cork can I put this directly on my concrete floor in the basement and the answer is yes you do not need any plastic when you're putting cork okay so just make sure it's not a fresh pour and make sure that it's a solid surface in one of the earlier videos we actually did some floor leveling around where we had cut the concrete open and so that was necessary because you want to have a nice flat surface for this to go on you don't want this going up and down because then it makes it really difficult for the locking system to engage there you go folks this is how you install a vinyl floor lay it down click tap repeat' hundreds and hundreds of times and by all means if you need one of these cutters go to the local building store they will rent it for you it's a big investment but if you're just doing one or two floors in your house then just go rent the tool thirty or forty bucks you can do most of the house in one day is definitely worth the investment it keeps the desk down it keeps your run running back and forth to the saw and it'll keep you from slicing your hand open using that knife because that was ridiculous well thanks again for watching us if you like the channel subscribe if you have not subscribed yet and if you want to ask some questions about this product or other installations by all means check the comments section below and leave me a message because we respond to every one of your messages it's one of our things we love to do and we'll see you again next time [Music] [Music]

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Length: 12min 30sec (750 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 11 2018