Matching Old Laminate Flooring

When laminate or engineered flooring is involved try and match the faded tones of the existing floor to new products being installed.

Matching old laminate flooring.

How to match laminate flooring step 1. Laminates have a dense fiberboard core with a paper pattern layer sealed both tops and bottom under high pressure with a plastic like substance. Gather samples with different intensities of the same color then pair them with the existing faded floor. Use one of the boxes that the laminate flooring came in to identify the manufacturer s.

Laminate is easy to install plus it comes in a wide variety of colors styles. Really want to match it go to your local box store or real flooring store and pick up some samples 10 year old flooring good luck on finding a match. It is recommended that you take a piece of the floor you are matching to your flooring retailer in order to make the comparison side by side. Our free installation sale applies to all laminate hardwood vinyl and carpet.

The new boards should be slightly thicker. Plus it s produced from recycled materials. Which is why if flooring is being done piecemeal in any home. Match and measure a floor board.

What can end up happening is the locking systems may not be compatible between your current floor and the new floor you purchased to match or worse it will be totally obvious that you installed a different flooring to try to match your old flooring. Sold as planks and panels in. Add a transition strip and add whatever you want. After the new floor is installed the profile is reduced by sanding.

Track down the flooring. Matching the new materials to the profile of the old flooring boards isn t necessary. We have no picture so it s anyone s guess what you have now. Will always become a match problem.

If you no longer have the box the flooring came in remove a couple of the edge. A naturally cushioned floor that works as a great sound and thermal insulator. A message from 50 floor details sale. Or pray you have a pre finished selection that allows a sand and refinish to match a future new one.

Those are the choices and risks of room at a time. If you have difficulty finding floors that match closely consider the possibility of taking flooring from under cabinets furniture or other items where the floor covering won t be missed. There is no need to match it. Just peel and stick or click together.