Laying PVC in the bathroom

What you need:

• PE film
• duct tape
• Spacer wedges
• Tapping block
• Pull bar
• Knife or saw

Properties of PVC

• You can glue PVC completely or lay it floating. It is particularly suitable for areas such as hallways, kitchen or dining area and sometimes also in the bathroom. Thanks to its surface, PVC is easy to clean, which is particularly beneficial for allergy sufferers.
• PVC is available in many different colors and grains, most of which are very good reproductions. A decisive advantage over a real parquet floor is the lower price.
• This Flooring is particularly flexible. It is easy to lay and because it can be laid floating, it can also be easily removed again. You can use this flooring on various surfaces, such as B. Wooden floorboards, screed, chipboard or Tiles embarrassed. It is particularly resilient, hard-wearing and also recyclable.

This is how you can lay the floor covering in the bathroom

The room in which you have the PVC- If you want to lay the floor, for example the bathroom, the humidity should be between 50% and 60%. Before laying, lay the PVC to be laid for about 48 hours at about 20 degrees in the room concerned so that the covering can adapt to the room temperature. When laying on a plank floor, make sure that the laying elements are laid at right angles to the direction in which the planks are laid. Always lay from left to right and lengthways to the incidence of light. Build in a corresponding expansion joint in larger rooms.

1. First of all, you should consider the Underground make sure in the bathroom that it is clean and dry. In addition, it should be tensile and pressure-resistant and, above all, even. You must then apply a PE film as a vapor barrier on the substrate. This should be at least 0.2 mm thick and overlap by about 20 cm. You can then fix the seams with adhesive tape.


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2. When laying the PVC flooring, it is best to start on a straight wall. The springs of the installation elements must point to the wall. Remove the longitudinal springs from the first row. Now lay the first row of PVC flooring and shorten the last element in this row so that there is an expansion joint of at least 10 mm to the side wall. Work with spacer wedges to ensure the necessary clearances to the wall. Align the first row after laying it with spacer wedges.
3. Then start the second row with the remnants of the last element of the first row. The remaining piece should be at least 30 cm long. With a tapping block and a hammer you can fit the joints of the elements together well. Then start the third row again with a whole element.
4. Continue row by row. For the last row, draw the course of the wall on the floorboards of the last row to be laid. To do this, place the corresponding elements so that they are congruent with those of the last row laid and draw the course of the wall with a pencil on the PVC elements. Saw the elements accordingly and then insert them. The best way to join the last two rows together is to use a pull bar.
5. Once the last PVC element has been laid, you can remove the spacer wedges. The expansion joints at the edges can then be covered with appropriate skirting boards.