At last your repair is in the home stretch, and everything that remained to you, it to choose floor covering. Your choice stops on laminate. But what you know about it? What laminate can be put in kitchen? It is one of those parts of the apartment which is most of all used. Laminate is quite popular floor covering. Floor with such covering is beautiful, practical and durable, it is easy to contain and move away him, mounting of laminate is simple and fast. Therefore to enjoy beautiful floor, it is necessary to choose covering class correctly.
Instruction
1. First of all, when choosing laminate on kitchen, it is necessary to pay attention to moisture-proofness of covering. The humidity is the biggest enemy for laminate, and the most weak spots are joints between panels. Therefore they need to be processed special voskosoderzhashchy means.
2. Laminate waterproof or moisture-proof will be suitable for kitchen sexual covering. Moisture-proof laminate of moisture is not afraid, but can inflate if on it to spill water. Waterproof – will cope with similar trouble. Experts recommend to choose laminate for kitchen 31 or 32 classes. Having laid such covering, you will be sure that floor is protected from accidental chips and kitchen accessories which have fallen to it, it is ecologically safe and as producers claim, will serve not less than 10-15 years.
3. In the course of laminate laying, surely consider that the surface on which it is collected has to be plain. Use special pith or polystyrene foam substrates, they will provide additional sound - and waterproofing. In addition, substrates protect laminate from shaking, thereby increasing the term of its operation.
4. Remember that laminate it is necessary to get 5-10% with stock. If you have conceived difficult configuration of laying or the room, then "allowance" has to be big. It is possible to stack laminate on two technologies – glue and bezkleevy (castle). Any producer accurately states algorithm of assembly of the products in the instruction. Laminate can be stacked along window, across kitchen or on its diagonal, but the last type of laying the most difficult also demands certain skills. Also laminate can be combined with tile, to thereby make the exclusive drawing on kitchen floor.