How To Install Allure Tile And Plank Flooring

It helps to open a few boxes of tiles and actually lay them out in different patterns on the floor to see what looks best.

How to install allure tile and plank flooring.

You must pay special attention to the outer grout lines at the end of the tile planks. When installing the tile in a matching grout line pattern. Now for the most part as a contractor we see the job when it s completed and for the most part never. Unlike self stick vinyl or glue down vinyl tiles both of which are installed with a full glue down application under the entire tile plank vinyl flooring is adhered only at the edges floating over the subfloor.

Vinyl flooring costs a fraction of the price of hardwood making it a great option for beginner home improvers. See my flooring install playlist. Now here s the deal. How to install vinyl plank flooring as a beginner.

Trafficmaster allure can be installed over wood or concrete subfloors even over existing vinyl or tile flooring. Learning how to install vinyl flooring is something you can do yourself. The building that houses our shop was built in the 1930s and the subfloor was a little less than perfect. If you are installing vinyl flooring over an existing tile floor check that the grout lines are not larger than the quarter inch.

Vinyl plank flooring has all the visual appeal of solid hardwood flooring. We knew we needed to go with a flooring option that had some flex allure luxury vinyl planks we had used a different allure product when we first moved in and were beyond happy with the ease of installation and maintenance of their products so we knew that allure would be the obvious. With any tile job the first step should always be to determine the pattern and orientation of the tiles in your install. As a contractor i install the floor in the video for a customer at the customer s request.

If they are the floor will need to be leveled using a patching compound. Allure flooring is resilient vinyl plank flooring made by trafficmaster. I found it to very easy to install and very durable. One is thinner than the other.