Click Strand Bamboo Flooring Installation

Click strand woven bamboo flooring is recently popular in the bamboo flooring market because it has high density of strand woven bamboo - 1100 kg / m3 and has the easy and quick installation as click lock bamboo flooring. You can install your own bamboo flooring under our detailed description and photos display. Click strand bamboo flooring is designed and produced for DIY and saving the cost than the installation of nail-down or glue-down.

Click lock bamboo flooring can be installed without glue. It is important to make correct installing or it will shorten the flooring life with the problems like swelling, shrinking, bending and cupping. Before installation, open the boxes and let flooring accommodate the room moisture in 4-7 days. You also need check the click grooves carefully and take 2 planks out and snap them together to see if the click grooves will join together closely and tightly, no gaps. The dust, moisture and water can go inside of flooring through the gaps and this will kill the flooring. Before start, please clean the room and get the moisture down to 15%-20%. Lay the foam on the ground.

First Row

Start in a corner of the room with the locking strip (lower edge of the lock) facing into the room (see picture #1). Using spacer wedges, maintain a 13mm gap between the wall and the edges of the planks being installed. Install the first plank. Install the second plank (see picture #2), pressing the short end of the second plank against the leading edge of the first plank and then, in one movement, laying it down flat to engage the locking mechanism. Ensure that the edges of all planks being installed are parallel and even. Continue with this method until you are ready to install the last plank of the first row.

Carefully measures the required length of the last plank in the row, allowing for a minimum of a 13mm gap at the end of the row (see picture #3). Cut the last plank of the first row to size using a saw with a carbide blade (see picture #4), then install as done for the previous planks, leaving 13mm gap at the end. After the first row is complete, ensure that all edges are perfectly even and parallel. Note: It is practical to fine-tune the gap between the long sides and the wall later, after the first three rows have been laid.

Second Row

Start the second row beginning with (if available) the piece left over (cut off) from the first row - piece must be at least 30cm in length. If the piece is too short (or if there is no leftover piece), start with a new board, cut in half. Always ensure that the end joints (between planks in adjacent rows) are staggered at least 25cm apart.

Maintaining a 13mm gap between the end of the plank (row 2 plank 1) and the wall using a 13mm spacer, begin the second row by inserting the long edge of the locking mechanism of the first plank (row 2 plank 1) into the long edge of the locking mechanism of the adjacent plank of the first row. Push the plank forward and press down at the same time to fully engage the locking mechanism (see picture #7). With the plank resting flat on the floor, (see picture #7a) ensure there is no gapping at the joint between it and a first row. If necessary, use a tapping block to ensure that the plank's locking mechanism is fully engaged and that there is no gap between it and the adjacent plank.

To install the second plank (row 2 plank 2), place the long edge of the plank into the adjacent plank of the first row. Slide this plank to the left until the short end of the second plank is flush against the leading edge of the first plank (row 2 plank 1). Then, in one movement, lay the plank down flat, ensuring that there is no gapping on either the short end or the long side of the (see picture #8). Use a rubber mallet and tapping block to correct any gapping. Note: If gapping cannot be corrected by a rubber mallet and tapping block, ensure that there are no splinters or other obstructions keeping the locking mechanism from fully engaging.

Now you finish the installation of your click bamboo flooring and it looks very great and matches with your house very well, right? The installation is not complicated than you expected, but simple and fast, it saves 10% of flooring cost. Click strand bamboo flooring is really eco flooring because bamboo is rapidly renewable resources and its installation is no pollution as there is no glue involved.

The key point in click lock flooring installation is the quality of bamboo flooring, if the click lock is bad quality, it will have a bunch of problems after installation. Bothbest produces click system with Homag machine to ensure the consistent and top quality in all our bamboo flooring. Flooring will be flat after clicking together, no tolerance, no gaps.

Click lock flooring installation is the guide for laminate flooring and bamboo flooring with click system.