How To Lay Down Vinyl Flooring Planks

If you lay the planks parallel to the longest wall as you re installing vinyl plank flooring you ll end up making fewer cuts.

How to lay down vinyl flooring planks. Trade secrets from the pros to make your job easy. Your goal is to create the flattest smoothest surface possible as the underlayment for the vinyl plank flooring. To cut the last piece to fit score it with a utility knife and snap the plank. But don t start that first row with full planks without figuring out how wide your last row is going to be.

Lay the first row of vinyl plank flooring along the wall leaving the manufacturer recommended amount of expansion space between the plank s edge and the wall usually about 1 4 inch. If the planks are cut make sure the cut edge is facing the wall. Justdoityourself lovingit perfecteverytime subscribe now and hit the bell to get. Hold the next plank at a slight angle against the previous plank s end and fold down to click it into place.

Neither the first nor the last row should be ripped down much smaller than half a plank.