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3. Before the installation
Conditioning the boards
Before starting the installation, the packs of laminate and Comfort flooring should be stored / acclimatised in the room where they
are going to be installed or in a room with an equivalent climate. Acclimatisation takes place in the following conditions:
The flooring is in its packaging
It is stored / acclimatised for a period of at least 48 hours
It is laid flat with a minimum of 50 cm distance from all walls
The room temperature is at least 18° C
The surface temperature of the floor is at least 15° C
The relative atmospheric humidity is between 40 % and 70 %.
Direction of installation
Laminate and Comfort flooring looks best when the panels are installed parallel to the light coming in through the windows.
However, there are binding requirements for the direction of installation for sub-floors made of board flooring, or strip
parquet / wooden floors on ships. In those cases, installation must be done at right angles to the boarding or the direction of the
strip parquet / wooden floor.
Planning the first row
First, the room must be measured to determine whether the width of the first row should be reduced. This is always necessary if the
last row being installed works out to be narrower than 5 cm.
Attention!
The flooring elements (floor boards) must be cut lengthways from the tongue side (red inlay).
Planning expansion gaps
EGGER Laminate and Comfort flooring are subject – like all organic materials – to a certain movement behaviour
(shrinking / swelling) due to the changing indoor climatic conditions. Movement of the finished, installed floor is not affected if
allowance is made with sufficiently dimensioned expansion joints to all fixed objects.
Expansion gaps 8 to 10 mm wide should be left around all fixed objects such as walls, door frames, pipes, pillars, stairs etc.
Planning movement profiles
Due to the movement behaviour of laminate and Comfort flooring, movement profiles must always be installed in the following
applications and areas:
Door thresholds
Passageways
Angled areas
Room lengths and / or widths of more than 10 m
Before the installation
