Laying laminate floor

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How hard is it? Do I pay someone to do it or have a go myself. All this for a house I am trying to sell.

We did our kitchen.

Lemon squeezy.

We did a room before starting our family but paying for the next room to be done as now a bit busy!
Easy except getting the edges right, you either take off the skirting which is not easy diy or cut sticky laminate strips to go all round. Not only do the strips not stick very easily but even if done very well they look a little naff

Ah, I see the problem, we didn't have any edges as all covered by kitchen units.

easy to do
a bugger to do well

we paid someone second time around

its really easy ive done the whole house just recently! dont be put off best stuff on a budget is screw fix who deliver next day for free, you can watch how to do it on u-tube! thats what i did and it looks great, there are loadssssss of differnet edging solutions out there but would advise not to use the stick on stuff its crap!

Well I am tempted - but it is the lounge and there are lots of edges!

at skirting boards, cut into skirting and slot laminate boards in, just done our dining room , used wickes found them cheaper than b and q, homebase etc.

certainly would not recommend you cut into skirting boards! screw fix is a 6mm thick board where bq homebase wicks is only 3mm thick and there the same price!

How do you attach the other edging options Kittycat?

you attach the edging serval ways depending what type you decide to by and how much you want to spend some edging is screwed doen to the floor with a base plate but the quarant edging is the most commonly used and thats stuck to the skirting not to the floor, using flooring sealant with comes in a tube310ml one tube will do an average size room and costs 3.79 you will though need a selant gun also usually around3.00.. if you go onto screw fix or tool station web sites you will find a range of products to choose from at a much cheaper price

We did the lounge diner in our old house using laminate from Floors 2 Go. Dreadful stuff - the easy click system was fine if you got it all in evenly in one go, but trying to connect a strip of 6 lengths into the bit you'd already laid and keep it all level was a nightmare. The lip that connects the two bits tended to shear off if you didn't get it right first time and the wastage was far more than we had allowed for.We were left with a final strip to do that was too wide to cover with edging but was really small and a pain to cut for a left handed person.

If we were ever mad enough to do it again we would definitely pay someone to do it. On the upside I did gain a husband from it as he felt that if we could survive the hell that was laying laminate we could survive anything so he proposed!