Installing Lifeproof Vinyl Flooring Transition Pieces

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.

Installing lifeproof vinyl flooring transition pieces.

Installing the flooring too tight to the transition molding floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects. 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. It made the floor just slightly taller so this reducer transition piece smooths out that height difference.

Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions. Doing your own lifeproof flooring installation is fairly simple. This video and desc. How to install a floor transition piece in a doorway.

I have seen many people who use a scrap piece of flooring to tap the pieces in to place. I wasn t able to do that. To find just the right product ask or search for them by flooring type such as tile transition strips or wood transition strips. If the two.

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. It floats over your existing floor and can be used to cover wood a concrete subfloor or existing vinyl flooring planks. Then cut the vinyl piece to size and snap it into the metal bracket. Shaped like a t they are used between two hard surfaces of the same height.