Laminate: Pro or DIY?

The question is should you or shouldn’t you install your laminate floor yourself? And the way to answer that is to firstly ask yourself a few more key questions. Are you the kind of person who enjoys a DIY job? If not, checking your local ads or asking friends and co-workers for the name of a good installer might be the preferred choice for you.

Here is a more complete question list. Don’t forget that you need to be honest with yourself.

• You are not a big DIY projects fan, but can you afford to get a professional installer? If you can, maybe you should treat yourself.
• Do you like to build things? Many people enjoy installing floors because they like to construct things as a hobby. This type of person is the perfect for a DIY procces.
• Are you patient? Are you the type of person who measures twice—or even three times—and cuts once? It helps if you are.
• Do you have any health problems with your back or your knees? Even thought installing a laminate floor is very easy, there will be a lot of bending, crouching, time spent on your knees and lots of reaching down and standing up.
• Do you tend to put off finishing a job once you start? The last thing you want to do is to be hard on yourself when you’re embarking on an installation job.
• Are you afraid of saws or anything with blades? If this is the case, you might want pick to up the phone and call your installer.

If you’ve always wanted to build, construct or create; installing a laminate floor is the ideal DIY job to get you started: especially if you get a glueless click-lock system with pre-attached underlay.