0:01 how's it going welcome back to the
0:02 channel in this video i'm going to show
0:06 you how to make a proper seam in sheet
0:07 vinyl flooring
0:09 okay so the type of flooring i'm going
0:11 to be using right here is a wood grain
0:13 vinyl this might be a little different
0:15 than a tile look or something like that
0:17 and i'll explain why we're going to do
0:19 this a little different than tile in
0:21 just a second so the difference in the
0:24 wood grain vinyl and a traditional tile
0:26 look vinyl is the tile will actually
0:28 have a really wide grout line probably
0:30 about the
0:32 width of the ink pen there where the
0:34 wood grain vinyl has just about like a
0:36 little pin mark on that so i'm going to
0:38 go about this a little different since
0:40 it is a wood grain and a super thin
0:42 grout line okay and what i'm going to do
0:44 with that is i'm going to completely
0:47 remove one grout line here
0:50 and leave one on here okay so what i
0:52 want to do is take this and slide it
0:56 over just a hair just to get
0:58 maybe a 16th of an inch from this line
1:00 to that line that way whenever i make my
1:02 cut i'm actually taking this line off
1:06 and leaving this one on okay now to keep
1:08 that in check all the way down what i'm
1:10 gonna do is take a brand new blade
1:13 definitely got to have a brand new blade
1:14 and i'm going to put just some little
1:18 slip marks in it not many
1:20 just so that i can fold it back like this
1:21 this
1:23 and see the grout line underneath of it okay
1:24 okay
1:25 i'm going to do
1:28 two and then
1:29 i'll be able to check my other end as
1:32 well i definitely want to do it on each
1:34 end and then maybe a couple in the
1:36 middle there just to make sure
1:39 that your seam is directly on it's very
1:41 important and these little bitty
1:43 little bitty grout lines that you do
1:45 keep an eye on that because if these
1:47 will actually run together you'll have a
1:49 big fat spot in the grout line or you'll
1:51 have it completely disappear which will
1:53 make the seam stand out like a sore
1:55 thumb so you definitely don't want that
1:58 you got to be super precise with this
2:01 wood grain vinyl okay now
2:03 if i was on a job doing this
2:05 i would get this
2:07 perfect just like this
2:09 i would run me some blue tape right here
2:11 so it didn't move and actually set some
2:12 weight on it
2:14 and i would take and fold this whole
2:19 just like this
2:21 and i would glue everything over here
2:23 except for about two feet about the same
2:25 maybe a foot and a half by the seam then
2:28 i fold this back over in the glue
2:30 and only have my seam on both pieces to
2:32 deal with so that's where we're going to
2:34 start off in this video actually making
2:36 the seam okay
2:38 okay so as you can see now i'm just
2:39 going down through here and double checking
2:41 checking
2:44 to make sure my seam is all good my
2:45 grout lines okay
2:47 definitely want a sharp blade and i do
2:49 not want to use a utility blade i want
2:51 to use a carpet blade because they are
2:53 the thinnest
2:55 that you're going to get a utility blade
2:58 is going to be really thick and cause
3:00 a slightly thicker
3:02 gap in it okay
3:04 okay so you can see here that i've got
3:07 about a 30 second maybe a 64th between
3:10 my grout line and straight edge and also
3:12 from the bottom grout line the piece
3:14 that i'm cutting off i have about the
3:15 same distance
3:17 from the top grout line to the bottom
3:19 grout line that way there's no chance of
3:23 me cutting off both grout lines or
3:25 leaving too much on to where they run together
3:26 together
3:28 now that i've got my straight edge
3:29 placed i'm going to simply
3:31 slice through
3:32 really important that you have your
3:34 carpet blade straight up and down okay
3:37 if you have it angled in or out just a
3:38 little bit you're going to have gaps in
3:40 your seams okay
3:41 really important to keep your blades
3:57 with that done now i'm going to be super
4:01 careful not to move it pull away
4:02 the scraps okay
4:08 there we go
4:11 now this is going to fall together just
4:13 beautifully right there okay i'm going
4:15 to go ahead and put some adhesive under
4:19 this and put it together permanently
4:22 this is tinder grip g67 it is a water
4:23 based pressure sensitive flooring
4:26 adhesive it's made specifically for
4:28 sheet vinyl vinyl tiles and such like
4:30 that okay vinyl plank all that stuff and
4:33 it's super easy to use because it's a
4:35 spray method okay so for the sake of
4:37 this video i'm going to use this it's
4:39 really good for small repairs and such
4:40 like that
4:42 i've actually done full
4:45 out rooms with that stuff before i
4:46 really like this product it's a really
4:53 definitely i'm getting it a little heavy
4:56 here since i'm so close i don't want to
4:58 cause a huge mess in my studio
5:00 so the same sealer that i'm going to be
5:03 using on this is a
5:06 dt65 it's a low gloss seam sealer for
5:09 the low gloss vinyl if you're using a
5:11 really shiny vinyl you're definitely
5:14 going to want to get a high gloss vinyl
5:17 this is a very important step of making
5:19 your seams you have to have this on
5:22 there and you have to have the proper
5:24 seam sealer or else you're going to be
5:26 in trouble down the road i guarantee it
5:28 okay whatever sheet vinyl that you're
5:30 installing see what the specs say on it
5:33 see what the manufacturers recommend for
5:35 the different brand of seam sealers that are
5:40 able to be used on your vinyl okay again
5:44 this is a dt65 made by tarquette and it
5:46 is a two-part process here it comes with
5:48 part a and part b
5:51 one ounce of each
5:54 one ounce in each bottle and what you're
5:56 going to do is you're going to take and
5:58 mix half and half
6:04 which i did here you can see now that i
6:06 have one ounce in there what i did i put
6:09 a half ounce of each in each bottle and
6:11 you have to get these to mix up really
6:13 good you do not want to take this bottle
6:14 and check it like that you're going to have
6:15 have
6:18 uh air bubbles all in it after you pour
6:20 your half inch or half ounce and half
6:22 ounce in it simply roll it like this and
6:24 you're not going to cause a bunch of air
6:26 bubbles in your sailor if you have air
6:27 bubbles in your sailor you're going to
6:29 have weak spots in your sealer and it's
6:31 also going to show up more as you put it
6:34 down there okay the uh thing about this
6:36 this is a chemical it's a super strong
6:38 chemical it'll actually take these two
6:40 pieces of vinyl that we're going to be
6:42 joining and melt them together as one
6:44 piece so whenever the next guy comes in
6:46 tears them up
6:48 if you do it properly you'll not even
6:50 rip the same apart when you pull it up
6:52 it will come completely up just as if it
6:55 was one piece i've done it
6:57 okay so for the sake of the video i'm
6:59 going to go a little bit premature on
7:01 this this typically should be a little
7:03 bit drier but like i said for the sake
7:05 of the video i want to go you can see
7:07 the difference here let me point this
7:09 out if you're wondering what it should
7:10 look like so this
7:13 uh where it's not white is what it
7:14 should be these thicker spots where it's
7:16 still white it should not be that way it
7:18 should be completely translucent and
7:21 then you know it's nice and tacky okay
7:23 so anyway for the sake of the video i'm
7:25 going to go ahead and do it and i'm
7:29 my seam
7:31 starting from back here
7:34 and work my way closer to the seam that
7:37 way i don't have any air bubbles getting
7:39 trapped underneath of it okay
7:40 so when i place the other side in there
7:42 i don't want to just flop the whole
7:44 piece down in there okay usually what
7:45 i'll do if i'm on a long stem i'll have
7:48 my guy hold this up down here and then i
7:49 will come in
7:50 uh one day at a time and i'm actually
7:53 gonna push from where i started gluing
7:56 right up to my joint like that it's good
8:00 if it overlaps just barely okay
8:02 so as you can see i'm working it
8:04 together to my seam
8:07 and like i said it should be overlapped
8:09 just a little bit
8:13 and for that reason right there
8:14 look at here
8:15 see that
8:17 so it is overlapped just a little bit
8:19 and the reason for that is i want to
8:20 take and zip it up like a ziploc just like
8:35 now that is a beautiful
8:38 seam right there
8:39 now that i've got it together i want to
8:41 go ahead and take and roll everything
8:43 again i'm going to start from back here
8:54 so this seam is completely put together
8:56 and now all we have to do to finish this
8:58 is apply our seam sealer okay
9:01 these applicator bottles
9:03 will come with a t-shaped nozzle on them okay
9:04 okay
9:06 this t-shape right here is actually
9:08 going to go in between the two pieces of
9:10 vinyl as
9:12 you squeeze your sealer out and move
9:14 along you're seeing this
9:17 causes a slight gap in your joint there
9:19 that allows the sealer to come out and
9:21 go in between both pieces of vinyl so
9:23 that the sealer gets in between it and
9:26 not just on top of it okay so
9:27 getting that buried between the two
9:30 pieces of vinyl as you're sealing it is
9:32 very important
9:33 okay once again i want to take that
9:35 little t piece and make sure that it is
9:37 sunk in the vinyl
9:39 and i'm going to squeeze and pull right along
9:40 along
9:42 that seam will actually close right back
9:44 up as i drag this along and you'll see
9:53 okay
9:56 now that seam is completely 100 ready to
9:58 go you can see i got just a little fine
10:00 line of that sealer on top
10:03 the majority of it went down in between
10:05 it where you want it to be the sheen
10:07 that you see the shininess of that is
10:09 going to blend right into this matte
10:11 finish as soon as that dries this is a
10:12 low gloss
10:14 sealer so it's going to blend perfectly
10:25 all right thank you guys for tuning in
10:27 hopefully you find this video helpful
10:28 hopefully it will help you in your
10:31 day-to-day installs once again if you
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