Pergo snap lock floor. Field is light color and dark border.
Insurance job. Customer installed original floor. Water damage and now needs replace.
What is the best way to install this type floor with the dark border.
Customer had to face nail a lot of the field due to not being able to lock to the border, We do not want to do that.
Can this be done?
Russell
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I've done similar, but with the old glue together stuff.
You'll need to machine the edges so they'll fit together, table saw with a good carbide blade will make invisible seams it you do it right.
Lotta work. Face nailed pergo? Got a picture of this loveliness? And the Ins co is going to pay to replace it?
Joe H
Joe, How much experience do you have with this stuff?This is going to be a challenge and I may need someone to lean on.Or a miracle.Russell
None.
What I was using was pre snaplock.
Glue each piece to the next with strap clamps, long nylon straps like tie downs with special ends to fit the flooring.
What I did to do what you're wanting was trim the ends of the planks to a dado to fit the edge of the border pieces.
It was pretty simple really, just a matter of getting the right set up on the table saw to make the dado match the corresponding plank.
With snaplock you will have to make the dado and the lip, then glue it.
Sounds like you'd be able to use the walls as something to pry against to get the border tight. Use something like a wonderbar and not a lot of glue.
Gotta look better than nails, no? How fussy a customer could this guy be?
Joe H
Joe H
We have already told him if we do it the way he did it it will void the material and workmanship warranty.He did make it look nice but if you really look at it you can see where he used finish nails to set the field pieces. And he is animate about using the same product.I was also thinking of gluing it. But I was thinking of using a mastic and a notched trowel and gluing the whole thingRussell
One thing of note, if you're doing a lot of this stuff is the padding they sell.
It's outrageously expensive from the flooring cos.
If you're in a metro area, a place that sells packing materials sells that stuff in rolls about 6' wide and looooooong. About 3' diameter roll of it is well worth buying if you're gonna have a use for it. Not like the UPS store places, a real packaging materials warehouse.
About 20% of the price from flooring manufacturers. It's just packing material, I don't remember the name of it though.
Joe H
Good idea!Russell
surprised it didn't buckle before the flood with nailed down pieces.
I ask him about that and he says he has had no problems.It has been down for 6 -7 years. But I wonder about some of the placement of the finish nails.Russell
I will attempt to add pictures of the floor.
Edited 10/10/2009 10:52 pm ET by Huntdoctor
It looks a hell of a lot better than I expected.
Guess I was picturing roofing nails or the like when you said he'd nailed it.
You'll have to mess with it some to get those pieces lined up where it's going around that island. You're going to need some scrap to sacrifice til you get that right.
Looks like he didn't stagger the joints, suppose you know to spread the joints like shingles so they don't go across the floor in a line.
Joe H
"suppose you know to spread the joints like shingles so they don't go across the floor in a line"Yes, we noticed some of the odd things he did.We have done many snap lock floors over the past few years but never with a border. And we always tried to stay away from "pergo brand".What do you think about a total glue down of this material?RussellPS: Sure would like to talk someone into letting us do this right!
What do you think about a total glue down of this material?
One way to find out...........
Joe H