Laminate floor fitting in Willenhall, Short Heath and New Invention. Subfloors levelled first, expansion gaps done properly, doors trimmed, old floor taken away.
Laminate is easy to buy and easy to fit badly. Much of Willenhall is on solid concrete ground floors from the post-war rebuilding, and those are rarely as flat as they look — a laminate laid onto an uneven slab creaks at every joint within a year.
Most Willenhall houses have suspended timber floors, and that is what decides whether a laminate lasts. Boards get screwed and levelled first, then underlay, then the boards click-fitted with an expansion gap hidden behind the beading. Skipping that gap is why so many DIY floors lift at the joints in the first warm spell.
It changes the preparation. A solid Willenhall ground floor needs checking for level and needs a damp-proof membrane under the underlay. Laminate laid straight onto bare concrete draws moisture and swells at the joints.
Almost always, by a few millimetres. It is part of the job, not an extra, and we take them off and cut them properly.
A bedroom is a day including preparation. If a concrete floor needs levelling compound we tell you first, because it has to dry before anything goes on it.
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