In order
to ensure that you will enjoy years of pleasurable
use from your floor, please go through this brief
checklist prior to laying.
1.
Examine, wether between floor and door is enough
space (at least 1 cm) so that after the laying of
the mats and the laminate the door still can be
opened and closed, if necessary shorten the door.
2. Is the space which you are
going to be installing the product, suitable (no
damp rooms)? Be aware of the type of flooring you
are using!
3. The following
subfloors are suitable: V100 subfloor planks; old
flooring such as PVC (if full-surface adhesive is
used); wooden flooring, ceramic tiles, linoleum,
cement floors. *The readiness of the subfloor for
installation must be ascertained. If a measurement
protocol of residual moisture is not performed,
the manufacturer will not make good on any claims.
4. The following subfloors are
not suitable: Thick carpeting with long fibres is
too soft and must be removed prior to
installation. Composition flooring contains too
much residual moisture.
5.
Pretreating the subfloor. Only install Kronotex
flooring on subfloors that are absolutely dry,
even, solid, stable, and clean. Minor unevenness
will be equalised by the underlayment pad.
Unevenness of greater than 4 mm should be sanded
down to 1 mm or smoothed out with putty. Be sure
to sand down any highspots. Lay new planks in such
a way that they run perpendicular to the existing
ones.
6. Use of underlayments:
In order to provide a moisture and vapour barrier
when laying the material on a mineral substrate or
on a floor with radiant heating, foam underlayment
with diffusion-proof PE foil with a minimum
diffusion thickness of 0.2 mm must be integrated.
Subfloors that lie directly on the subsoil or are
subject to fluctuations in temperature require a
vapour barrier comprised of a PE foil underlayment
with a minimum thickness of 1.2 mm. This applies
to such spaces as greenhouses without cellars or
that are located over unheated rooms, corridors,
ect. Strips should be glued down or installed with
at least 20 mm of overlap, and should also be
positioned about 5 cm above the base of the wall
and subsequently covered with the baseboard.
7. For impact sound and thermal
insulation, please use underlayments such as PE
foam, felt, or Kronotex Laminate flooring
with ”Sound Design” footfall sound
reduction. You can also use, for this purpose,
Kronotex combination underlayment pads which are
comprised of moisture-regulating corrugated
cardboard. These pads are laid joint to joint and
are glued down with moisture-resistant
self-adhesive tape (advantage: the whole job
consists of only one step).
Vapour barrier
Impact sound
insulation
Composite cement
x
x
Earthenware tiles
x
x
PVC
-
x
Linoleum
-
x
Wooden particle board /
compressed fibre board
-
x
8.
Allow for expansion joints. Kronotex floorings are
a natural product and inasmuch as the base
material (wood) has the properties of a natural
product, planks expand or contract in all four
directions. Consequently, on all surfaces to which
flooring is applied, expansion joints of at least
10 mm or 1.5 mm per running metre must be allowed
for all vertical surfaces (pipes, conduits,
thresholds, columns, room dividers, ect.) Spacers
(to be removed after installation is completed)
are used to localise these expansion joints.
9. Spaces that measure more
than 12 m and/or 8 m in terms, respectively, of
plank length or width, require an extra expansion
space of a minimum of 10 mm or 1.5 mm per running
metre. This applies as well to doorways, openings
between rooms and corridor corners. We recommend
removing plank tongues in the area around the
expansion profile in order to allow for sufficient
expansion space. Under no circumstances should the
floating system be removed in whole or in part.
Mouldings should be attached to the wall only, and
not to the flooring.
10. Cover
the expansion spaces. After installation,
expansion spaces around the perimeter of the floor
as well as transitions to other flooring need to
be covered with base or shoe mouldings that match
or are colour coordinated to blend with your
floor. Kronotex has trims colour coordinated to
Kronotex floors that can be used to cover wall
expansion spaces. To see our complete line
accessories, visit your nearest Kronotex dealer.
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