How to store laminate flooring

Modern building materials require proper storage. We will tell you how to properly store a laminate.

Laminate flooring requires special conditions

Due to the great popularity of such flooring as a laminate, it is acquired not only by professional builders, but also amateurs. Therefore, there are often problems with its storage.

This type of coating is a rather complex design, where the safety of each element is important. Otherwise, the assembly may be performed in violation of the technology, which will necessarily affect the quality of the coating in the future.

Laminate is a material consisting of several layers.

1. The top layer is a moisture-resistant, wear-resistant coating of a protective film.
2. A decorative layer of paper with a picture of the structure of wood.
3. The carrier layer, the basis of which consists of a fiberboard of high hardness.
4. The bottom layer is waterproof, balancing or compensating.

Due to the rather complex structure, the material requires special storage conditions. Violations of these conditions can lead to damage to both one and all of these layers.

Not everyone who uses this material properly stores it. Mistakes are often made when storing laminate flooring at construction bases and storehouses. Or in places where construction or repair is underway.

This leads to deformation of the laminate elements, i.e. lamellas, damage to their locks, cracks. Peeling may appear on the slats. Burnout of the top layer under direct sunlight is possible.

Storage rules

The laminate is stored in cardboard boxes the size of one board of a standard area.

REFERENCE. The dimensions of the package are such that, without gaps, 5 lamellas fit tightly.

After packing in cardboard, as a rule, with the storage rules applied to the box, the containers are hermetically sealed in polyethylene. This ensures the preservation of the quality of the boards even when water gets on the packaging.

Boxes with laminate are transported only in closed vehicles, stored in dry rooms.

It is necessary to protect them from shock, from overheating, from cooling, water and snow. Long mechanical stress can also adversely affect the contents of the packs.

Long-term storage conditions

A sufficiently large volume of laminate in the boxes must be prepared for storage in a stack. It is formed by their packaging.

is he formed by the principle of a cube. Its base is the three lower boxes with laminate, laid on a flat, dry floor, at an equal distance.

Three more boxes are placed on top, but already across the previous ones, at an angle of 90 degrees, also at an equal distance.

IMPORTANT! The stack can be raised to a height that will be equal to the length of the package.

That is how a laminate prepared in a large volume is stored for a long time. In this case, the load is distributed evenly over all packs, and there will be no deformation leading to damage to the laminate.

Seasonal temperature fluctuations can also lead to damage to such material.

For storage in packaging in winter and summer, it is important to ensure optimal conditions:

• temperature not lower than + 5 ° and not higher than + 18 °;
• humidity not more than 65%.

Storage, especially long-term, does not imply a temperature change of more than 5 degrees. Warehouses should always have the same temperature. No moisture, precipitation. Even frost can damage the lamella layers. Sun rays should not be, they can harm the upper layer.