How to Lay Click & Lock Wood Flooring
- 1). Remove the floor trim around the room, using your pry bar and hammer. Keep the trim intact as you remove it, so you can reinstall it later. Set it aside.
- 2). Lay plastic underlayment over the floor, starting along one wall and laying it in courses, side by side, so it covers the room. Cut the courses as needed with a utility knife. Tape them together along the edges with the plastic tape that came with your flooring kit.
- 3). Set your first course of flooring next to the wall where you want to start. Lay the boards so the grooved side of the tongue-and-groove edging faces the wall. Leave a 1/2-inch space there. Click the boards together end to end, cutting the last one on your miter saw to fit.
- 4). Lay additional courses, clicking each course to the one before it and cutting the ends to fit. Work across the floor course by course. Stagger the sizes of boards you use so they don't line up between courses.
- 5). Cover the whole floor, cutting the final course of boards along their lengths with a table saw so they'll fit by the wall while leaving the same 1/2-inch gap you started with.
- 6). Reinstall your floor trim, using your hammer and trim nails to secure it, covering the 1/2-inch gap and holding down the flooring.