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How to Install a Vinyl Floor - Do It Yourself
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this kitchen Flores had it it's got to
go as a matter of fact this whole
kitchen needs to be redone from the
ground up so this is where we're gonna
start today we're gonna be installing a
new kitchen floor and it's a simple
do-it-yourself project and what's great
about it we're gonna be able to install
the new and right over the top of this
old one so that's really gonna save us a
lot of time you'll need to move your
appliances out of the kitchen before you
can lay down your floor
so when plug them first and remember if
you have an automatic icemaker you'll
need to turn the water off you'll need
to use the wrench to disconnect your
water lines and in this case I'm using a
crescent wrench and an open end so
probably just a few turns not to get it
I think you can loosen the rest with
your fingers
you'll also need to remove your stove
and in this case we have a gas stove so
the first thing that you want to do is
turn the gas off most valves are a 90
degree turn to shut them off then you
need to use a pair of channel locks to
loosen this so you can disconnect the
line and just keep turning it so you can
get it really loose to pull this off
just like that if you're putting down a
new flooring on top of the old you'll
need to clean your floor first and I
just used a really good detergent and
some water to clean up this floor and
then if you have any loose tiles that
are sticking up like this one you'll
need to glue these back down so I'm
using a trowel to put on this vinyl
flooring adhesive just put a little bit
on the back of this and then you can use
your fingers just to tamp this down the
last thing that we need to do before we
can put down our flooring is take up
this cord around I'm using a pry bar and
hammer so if you'll just put your pry
bar right in between the baseboard and
the cord around close to the nail and
lightly tap it with your hand with a
Miss and
then you can get it off just carefully
work your pry bar to loosen this coat
around so you don't break it and you
just do this all the way down to make
our job really easy we're using a
flooring installation kit this is a real
inexpensive kit that comes with several
large pieces of paper and all the tools
that you need to make a template of your
floor so you'll want to start with your
first piece in the corner and push it
right up against your baseboards and
then go ahead and roll it out you'll
need to tack this piece of paper with a
piece of tape from the baseboard to keep
it in place seeing away all your other
pieces out as well and what's really
nice about using the paper is it's going
to give you a perfect template of your
floor and that way you're not taking a
chance of miss measuring and cutting
your floor out possibly too short
so you'll overlap your pieces of paper
just a little bit and then tape them
together as you go and to keep your ends
from rolling up on you go ahead and tape
these together to every kitchens going
to have corners and angles that you need
to cut around like this one so all you
need to do is just lay your panel right
up against it I'm going to use a putty
knife and a utility knife to trim this
off the reason for the putty knife it's
given me a straight edge so that my
utility knife doesn't slip back onto the
paper and mess this cut up after I
trimmed all the excess paper off I went
ahead and reinforced my tape with longer
pieces to ensure that my patience will
stay together and now I need to do is
just take off these two pieces of tape
on this baseboard let's start rolling
and this would it be real careful so
that your papers don't separate and your
this is our vinyl flooring and it comes
in standard 12 foot widths but you can
get it cut to different lengths we went
ahead and rolled this out 24 hours ago
that gives it plenty of time to flatten
out and it gets rid of any kinks so that
when we cut it we have a good accurate
cut it down in a corner and then go
ahead and roll it on out now once we get
this lined up really even on both of
these corners I'm going to use some
sturdy duct tape to tape this down so
just put your tape on the paper and then
tuck it under on the floor like that and
we're going to do this all the way
around if you'll use a thin piece of
wood underneath the vinyl that'll make
your cutting a lot easier plus it
protects whatever surface your flooring
is laying on and again I'm just using
the same utility knife and just go slow
so that you can get a good straight
accurate cut as you're cutting be sure
that you keep your body off of your
template and stay on the vinyl that way
you're not messing up your template and
now that our florist cut all we have to
do now is just cut the rest of the
pieces of tape then we're finished now I
got to do is to take this template off [Applause]
now let's lay this floor out let's see
how it fits let me just push it up
underneath the counter you know because
of that template this is a perfect fit
even in the corners since we know this
floor fits we can go ahead and start
putting down the glue what you want to
do is you want to fold this back about
halfway and be sure not to step on this
because you don't want to put a crease
in it and then we're applying this
adhesive directly to the floor and I'm
using this notched trowel so this is
gonna spread the glue on evenly for me
so let me just get me some you want to
keep the trowel up on its edge like this
to spread the game around make sure that
you get right up against your baseboards
so that your flooring in here's to that
and then just do even strokes so that
I'm just about got this half of the
okay now we can lay this down once you
get your flooring down that's pretty
much it you shouldn't need to raise it
up for any reason but really you can
anyway because if you do it will miss
your flooring up so just try to lay it
down as smooth as you can and then you
can smooth it like this all the way up
before we glue this side of the floor
I'm just going to lightly loosen with my
hammer this carpet trim and I'm not I'm
not trying to take it all the way up I'm
just raising it enough so that once I
get this glued I can put the vinyl
flooring right up underneath here to
tuck it in and then I'll push this
carpet trim back down and this wasn't
too bad now I can lay the rest of this
to put the flooring under the carpet
trim that I was telling you about you'll
want to carefully roll this flooring
forward a little bit so that you can
slide it up underneath the trim just
like that and then you can let the
weight of the floor push itself on up
under underneath that trim you'll want
to lightly tap your carpet trim back
down now we need to let the floor set up
for at least 24 hours before we can put
our appliances back in and the last part
of our project is just putting back down
the quarter round you know this really
was a simple do-it-yourself project and
it wasn't very expensive
you could spend anywhere from $2 to
square foot on up depending on the look
you want and a project like this can
really brighten up your kitchen [Music]
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