How to seam vinyl flooring

this video is a guide to cutting seams in your flooring the techniques are very similar if you're fitting rubber if you're laying more than one piece there's no need to weld this flooring for the best results we recommend the double cut seam technique demonstrated here when you're doing your wool Cuts you obviously use a hook blade on your joins you have to use a concave blade now I've discovered trying to use straight blades or concave blades the problem with straight blades it cuts it too tight and it ends up doing this to the actual joint making it Peak so you have to use a concave blade it's a lot nicer and a lot cleaner cut so when it comes to doing your join you've overlapped it by between an inch to 2 in overlap now the vinyl underneath is obviously underneath and you can feel that with your thumb here so this is where the actual vinyl underneath is laying now I position The Straight Edge so I can feel the vinyl still underneath now I'm just laying a straight edge roughly in line all the way down the join so it's roughly about the same distance from my thumb to the straight edge for the length just all the way up so you can still see that I've still got the same Gap there and I've still got roughly the same Gap here once you've got that up the whole thing you apply pressure to the straight edge using your concave blade you position it now I score it to begin with just run it gently along the straight edge and just do that several times just keep going and then eventually you actually reach the floor when you hear that sound if you've got a latex floor you should hear a nice scraping noise which means that you've hit the bottom of the actual floor itself if you don't hear that noise you've got to keep on doing it until you've scrape through so I'm still cutting and there's that scrape now once you've come to the end of your straight Ed obviously you need to move your straighted I try and leave the knife in here just so I can slide the actual straightedge down just gently lifting the knife up and then just trying to line it back up leave a slight little overhang of the actual straight edge line it back up and then just do your thumb trick again make sure that you've got the same distance throughout if there's any discrepancies and just move it over slightly so it keeps it at same distance apart so again to the eye I feel like I'm in line again just gently scoring keep on scoring and now I should get the scrap every so often when you've got a long bit I just tend to cut that off just to make it easier for myself so I can see what I'm doing then repositioning my Straight now I've got a stress you must be on this side of the join so you can feel the vinyl underneath if you cut it on this side like that way it normally leaves the join slightly gappy so you can't feel the vinyl either so you've got the danger that you might actually cut off the vinyl so you're not cutting both pieces so just make sure you're on this side and you can feel the vinyl is here once you've cut through the whole join so now this is the last bit obviously lift up this side you lift this up and then you pull out the piece that you've you've cut like so you literally just pull that all the way up now if you've cut it all the way through it'll come up easily if it gets stuck it means that you haven't cut it all the way through and you need to be very careful how you do that you're going to have to get back down in your hands and knees and just pull it back over gently and then just cut it very gently once you've got all of this up dispose it up then you can either use a roller which I prefer to do or just your Thum now I'll show you the Thum cuz not everyone's going to have a roller basically I always start in the middle basically all I'm doing is just pushing it slightly over in that angle just to give it a bit of to put it back in now if you get a stubborn bit like this what I tend to do is just use my knife just to push it down and give it a little tap and then just clean up the edge once you've got it in position I always run my hand just along the back Edge just to make sure that that's in the glue so you haven't got a little sort of bubble where it kicks up against the other vinyl so just give it a little push just to make sure it's completely flat and it's still in the glue and then where you started just go the opposite way with the other Thun so a lot of people worry about the joints if you do it this way you shouldn't have any issues it should be a nice tight joint once once you've laid your floor and the seams done you're complete but you can walk in it straight away but we recommend that you leave any furniture or any heavy Goods out for at least 24 [Music] hours

Channel: The Colour Flooring Company

Views: 172,142

Keywords: How to seam vinyl flooring, vinyl flooring, flooring, vinyl

Id: 6_9Bn9b9PyA

Length: 6min 2sec (362 seconds)

Published: Wed May 31 2017