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16th May 2007, 06:41 PM #1
Laying floating floor Uniclic
Hi
Interested in any stories on self install of floating timber flooring onto concrete slab. There was some discussion on another thread of using full 19mm tongue and groove flooring on battens/ply.
This system has caught my eye and is a non glue style that click together.
Recommendations experiences of laying timber floors appreciated.
cheers
dazzler
This is from the company site;
http://www.uniclic.com/
The Uniclic profile has been designed so that during installation the laminate flooring panels can be slotted together either angled or horizontally and without damage. This is very important in areas where angling is either difficult or impossible (under door frames or radiators, for example).
The ingenious UNICLIC-system has a special shape of tongue and groove. Their sophisticated and very accurate milled shape makes it possible to create a very tight connection during the installation.
You can use two simple techniques to make an UNICLIC connection.
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16th May 2007, 06:54 PM #2Registered
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If you have ever walked on such a floor you will realise that they sound drummie when you do, they are cheap and sound it too.
I wouldnt use a "floating" floor in a mad fit.
Al
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16th May 2007, 08:11 PM #3Senior Member
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I have recently laid floating floor in a new room with concrete floor, We are reasonably happy with it but had quality issues with the supplied boards both broken corners and a production scratch. After some discussion the boards were replaced but I have a failure in the boards to fix as yet
Although not stated in the instructions the person I saw suggested the end joins be joined with 3 drops of "D3" glue this could be a good idea. we laid it under benches in a kitchen/family room
happy to discuss further if you like
doug
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16th May 2007, 09:59 PM #4
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16th May 2007, 10:00 PM #5
hi Doug
did you lay the uniclic style?
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17th May 2007, 10:49 PM #6Senior Member
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No we laid Kronotex
You should consider whether you need it repairable after you finish it. I laid mine the wrong way round and so is not easily repaired I believe.
doug
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18th May 2007, 12:06 PM #7Quantum Field Theorist :-)
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I have uniclic floors in most rooms of my house. They don't sound "drummie"
at all. On the contrary, they are quiet and feel softer underfoot than hardwood
(i.e: more pleasant to walk on). The laminate finish on top is extremely tough
and resilient, requiring no maintenance. My floors neither look nor sound cheap.
However, I've heard a less good story from another person, disappointed
with the quality of the result (end gaps opening up over time). I think
this might be because their floors were laid by carper layers who don't
specialize in uniclic laying. Mine were laid by Pro-Flooring in Sydney,
whose layer contractors are indeed experienced specialists. I have no
complaints whatsoever with the job they did.
They did pour quite a lot of special leveling compound first. Maybe a
"drummie" sound is caused by the supporting floor underneath not being
prepared sufficiently level?
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18th May 2007, 05:30 PM #8
Noisy floating laminate floors are caused by using cheap undelay, like everything else you get what you pay for. Do not skimp on the undelay. With quality underlay there is no noise when the floor is walked on.
For a concrete slab, you will need to lay a plastic film first, overlap the joints by about 200 mm and seal the joint with Gaffa tape. Take the plastic film up the wall about 50mm. Trim it after you have finiished laying the floor.
Then lay the foam underlay, butt jointing the edges. Use short strips of Gaffa tape to keep underlay joints together while you lay the flooring.
If you have skirting boards then remove them, lay the floor, then refit them. I think it looks much nicer than leaving the skirting boards and then using quad to cover the expansion joint.
The packs come with full instructions.
Bunnings sell a laminate floor laying kit. It has a block for tapping the boards together. a flat piece of metal with hooks on each end for tapping in the last board in the row closest to the wall and lots of adjustable spacers for setting the expansion joint gap as you lay the boards.
This flooring is easy to lay and you see a pleasing result very quickly.
I used Formica flooring, very similar to Uni-clic.
Videos here http://www.formicaflooring.com/video/
Growing old is much better than the alternative!
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18th May 2007, 07:54 PM #9TIMBER FLOOR CONTRACTOR
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Uniclick is a MDF base with a very thin synthetic layer on top that looks like timber. It will let you down and cost you that much again in a few short years . It will breakdown quickly . WARNING
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18th May 2007, 10:24 PM #11TIMBER FLOOR CONTRACTOR
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Hi daz, Their could be more than one. The last uniclic i saw was mdf and it distorted very quickly with little moisture. I had to replace aprox 20m2 in a unit in brisbane, it was about 6mm thick.
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19th May 2007, 12:53 PM #12
thanks larry
i will triple chech it
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19th May 2007, 08:45 PM #13TIMBER FLOOR CONTRACTOR
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Afloater with 4mm wear layer is worth looking at. Check for base structure. A good engineered floater is made from struct ply to prevent possible distortion. But any thing will distort when water is present except if it is plastic
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20th May 2007, 02:16 PM #14Quantum Field Theorist :-)
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Hi Larry,
Apparently some people neglect the manufacturer's warning about not using steam cleaners, or they slosh vast amounts of water on it when mopping. There have been some court cases about that, so I hear. However, mine has been down for over 7 years. In a couple of places it has even been punished with water occasionally by a leaking roof, and yet those particular areas remain indistinguishable from the rest. The whole floor still looks good, and has not let me down at all.
I had another look at some of my old spare boards, and they do indeed look similar to Dazzler's description, i.e: not MDF.
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