Installing Lifeproof Vinyl Flooring Transition Pieces

Lifeproof vinyl flooring features an innovative wear layer made to resist scratches for long lasting beauty.

Installing lifeproof vinyl flooring transition pieces.

Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions. It made the floor just slightly taller so this reducer transition piece smooths out that height difference. To find just the right product ask or search for them by flooring type such as tile transition strips or wood transition strips. To install them you simply cut the metal brackets that come with it to the size you need and screw them into the sub floor.

Use a broom a rubber mallet a tapping block and a piece of scrap wood. Floating floors will expand and contract with changes in the interior home climate. When you change from one flooring to another in a doorway you usually need a transition strip to form the border between them. I wasn t able to do that.

Installing the flooring too tight to the transition molding floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects. How to install a floor transition piece in a doorway. These are typically metal transition strips such as aluminum or lightweight steel but vinyl composite and wood are used as well. Then cut the vinyl piece to size and snap it into the metal bracket.

If the two. Doing your own lifeproof flooring installation is fairly simple. This video and desc. A tapping block is super cheap buy one we found that it was much easier to get a tight seal when locking the planks in lengthwise when we lined a piece of scrap wood up along the back of the tapping.