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Coordinated Laminate Floor Moldings

Laminate Floor

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How to Install Laminate Floor Moldings*

Add the perfect finish to your Shaw Laminate flooring.

Coordinating moldings give your Shaw Laminate floor a finish with flair. Available for most styles and colors, moldings come in vii' 10" lengths. Become a meliorate understanding of the dissimilar types of moldings and discover what will work best for you. We accept plenty of accessories to complete your unique wait.

Shaw offers a consummate line of trims and transition pieces to finish your beautiful new laminate floor, including T-molding, Threshold/Stop-Mold/Carpet Reducer, Wallbase, Quarter Round, and Stairnosing.

The transition pieces (excluding quarter round and wall base) tin can easily be secured in place with our Molding Track, which can be screwed, nailed, or glued with silicon adhesive directly to the subfloor. The use of molding trackprovides a fast, secure transition installation and minimizes the apply of screws.

Threshold/Terminate Mold/Carpet Reducer
T-Molding
Quarter Round
Stairnose

Installation Tips

Molding must exist pre-drilled to avert splitting whenever they are to be secured with nails or fasteners.
The recommended tool to employ when cutting molding and trim is a 10" or 12" motorized miter saw with pre-set up adjustments for the basic miter cuts at 22.v°, 45° and 90°. A carbide tipped blade makes the best finished cuts. Be certain the saw blade is positioned to cutting into the finished face.
If you're installing wall-base yous can eliminate the need to putty as many holes on the molding by placing the bottom nail lower down where the quarter circular volition go.
When installing quarter round and wall base of operations, never restrict the natural expansion/contraction movement past securing wall base or molding to the floor. Exist careful to avoid driving your boom at a downward angle.
Always miter your cuts rather than having butt cuts when splicing or joining two pieces of trim together. Yous can best decide the management of the miter cutting by cutting the molding with the long signal oriented in the same direction every bit your natural line of vision when y'all enter the room.

Trim Options

Threshold- The End Molding/Carpet Transition works bang-up when finishing the floor in areas that come across vertical objects and is likewise ideal for transitioning between your laminate flooring and rug. To finish the flooring in areas that run into vertical objects like exterior doors, sliding glass doors, tubs or shower basins, raised hearths or low sills, leave a ane" space betwixt the floor and the vertical object.
Installation: Install the Molding Track past gluing, screwing or nailing it 1/iv" from the flooring. Push the molding into the rails working from left to right. When transitioning from laminate flooring to carpet, leave a 1" space between the finished floor and the front edge of the rug. Install the Molding Track by gluing or nailing it i/4" from the edge of the flooring. Push the molding into the track working from left to correct. Finish the carpeting by tucking it between the molding and the tack strip. Note: In heavy traffic areas, use screw-type fasteners or nails to permanently secure the molding into the Molding Rails.
T-Molding - T-Molding is used when two level flooring surfaces come across, like in a doorway or a narrow archway. In a doorway, center the T-Molding nether the space that the closed door occupies. Likewise, in an archway, the T-Molding should exist centered..
Installation: To install the T-Molding, first install the molding track by gluing, screwing or nailing it 1/4" from the edge of each adjoining flooring surface (equals about i 1/viii"). Push the T-Molding into the track, working from left to correct. When laminate flooring meets a flooring surface that is lower, apply a Reducer Strip. Leave 1/2" space between the finished floor and the forepart edge of the reducer. Install the Molding Rails by gluing, screwing or nailing information technology i/4" from the edge of the flooring. Button the reducer into the track working from left to correct..
Quarter Circular - To finish the perimeter of the room where the expansion space was left for the seasonal expansion and wrinkle of the flooring, remove spacers and install Wallbase and/or Quarter Round.
Installation: Both of these moldings are installed by nailing them directly into the wall. Never allow nails or screws in the Wallbase or Quarter Round to enter into the laminate flooring or the expansion zone around the flooring perimeter, every bit it will forbid proper expansion and contraction of the floor. You must pre-drill nail holes in both types of wall moldings before nailing, to eliminate whatever splitting. Be certain to nail the Quarter Round into the wall or Wallbase and not into the flooring as information technology will prevent expansion and contraction of the flooring. Use Color Coordinated Putty to make full the countersunk nail heads. Silicone sealant should exist used in expansion zones in bathrooms, nearly kitchen sinks, dishwashers and refrigerators with icemakers.. Be sure when nailing, that you do not go at a downwardly angle so equally to avoid hitting the flooring and causing it to go into a bind.
Stairnose - The Stairnosing is used to finish stair treads and risers, which have been fully adhered to the floor using a Shaw canonical multipurpose flooring adhesive. End the flooring about 1 one/2" from the step'due south border.
Installation: Install the Molding Track by gluing, screwing or nailing it three/iv" from the edge of the stair tread. Apply construction course adhesive to the Stairnosing where the molding makes contact with the stair tread. Button the Stairnose into the rail from left to right. You must employ either screw-type fasteners or nails through the face of the Stairnose to permanently secure information technology to the rail. Identify screws/nails into the Stairnose ii" from the finish and 6" to viii" apart. (Notation: riser slice should be in place under Stairnosing before screws or nails are used).

Exist sure to piece of work with your retailer to select the proper molding and trim pieces for your flooring installation.

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