laminating my kids bedrooms, is it easy?

crispeater

I've decided i want to put laminate down in the kids bedrooms but i would like to do it myself. so my question is, is it hard to do and what do you do when you get to the radiator? i presume i have to take the radiator off the wall??

would i require any special tools? thankfully my daughters room is a nice square shape so no cutting (i hope) should be required but my sons is a bit different.

is it easy enough for a woman like me to do?

susieb1967

word of warning if the kiddies rooms are upstairs..........it will be VERY noisy and gets worse as the kids get older and start going to sleep later ( I speak through my sisters experience!!) However you can mop up spilt juice easily and mouldy sandwiches just wipe away!!:rotfl:

Good luck in the fitting!!

ChasingButterflies

Hi there,

Just a couple of points,

When you lay the boards you need to stagger them - so you will need cuts ever if your daughters room is square! best bet is to cut 1st board in half and then you re use the other half...

There are different types of laminate ones that you need to glue and others that click into place.

Re the radiator - you don't need to take it off the wall. You can cut a rectangular hole in the board - slot it into place and then get a pipe rose (a circlular bit of laminate that covers the rectangular cut and is a snug fit up to the pipe.

Tools - I would borrow the following rubber mallet, circular saw (makes cuts much easier than unsing a jigsaw) jigsaw for other cuts (not a straight line!) workbench, clamps to hold boards down. You will also need a plastic block which the laminate flooring place sell to tap them into place.

I have never laid laminate myself - however I am quality control when hubby has!!!

There is the matter as well that no room is ever truely square!!!

Also don't forget to leave room for expansion round the edge (under skirting board looks nicer - however everytime we have taken skirts off we have had to get them replace!!!

Laminate can be noisy though - just to point out!

Hope I have explained this ok and any laminate you get will come with instructions - to show you how to stagger etc.

Good Luck!

crispeater

my friend has decided she wants to help an she dosier than me so who knows how it will turn out.
i had laminate in my previous house so i know about the noise bit. both kids have already tipped stuff all over the carpet and thankfully it is already a bit manky (previous owners) so i thought easier to mop up rather than start scrubbing stains out lol

thanks guys.. any volunteers wanna come help too ?

c

weekendwarrior

It is fairly easy to do, here is a good "how to"-

Fitting laminate flooring

crispeater

weekendwarrior wrote: »

It is fairly easy to do, here is a good "how to"-

Fitting laminate flooring

oh wow how cool is that!! i do like a step by step guide

thank you :T

gally56

I laminated our spare bedroom with my good wife's help it was reasonably easy I only used 12 f**ks 41 sh%t$ and 38 ballcocks which for me when doing DIY is pretty good. Its like most DIY jobs when you watch a look how easy it is to do display DVD you think "wow that's easy," well yes thats because the man/woman doing it on the dvd is in a perfectly straight room with prefect dimensions.
Good luck with it anyway

adandem

We have laminate in our children's rooms. We used the thick green boards as underlay and have not had any sound problems at all.

crispeater

gally56 wrote: »

I laminated our spare bedroom with my good wife's help it was reasonably easy I only used 12 f**ks 41 sh%t$ and 38 ballcocks which for me when doing DIY is pretty good. Its like most DIY jobs when you watch a look how easy it is to do display DVD you think "wow that's easy," well yes thats because the man/woman doing it on the dvd is in a perfectly straight room with prefect dimensions.
Good luck with it anyway

that so made me laugh! thanks for making my morning :rotfl:

Poppycat

It can be very noisy having it fitted in a kids rooms, we often get a racket of a noise downstairs because one of our daughters dropped something on the floor.

I would recommend getting good underlay to try and dampen the noise too.

Timmne

laminating my kids bedrooms, is it easy?

Not sure you'd fit them in a laminator and you'd need a lot of little plastic pouches!!