Installation & Assembly
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Premium Luxury Vinyl Flooring Installation Instructions
All subfloor surfaces must be flat, clean, dry, smooth, and free of movement. All surface imperfections should be filled and sanded with a portland
cement-based latex patching compound.
Completely remove all residual adhesives on previously covered concrete floors or cover them with a cementitious underlayment intended for this
purpose. Never use solvent-based adhesive removers.
Substrate must be flat, within 3/16" in 10' radius and/or 1/8" in 6' radius. Sand high areas or joints. Fill low areas with a high compressive strength
portland-based compound.
Substrate must be dry. Select the appropriate moisture indicator test specifically designed for use with wood or concrete subfloors. Test and record
moisture content results. DO NOT INSTALL FLOORING IF MOISTURE TEST RESULTS EXCEED RECOMMENDED LIMITS.
Concrete Suboors
1. Concrete subfloors must be dry, smooth, and free from dust, solvent, paint, wax, grease, oil, asphalt sealing compounds or other materials.
The surface must be hard, dense and free from powder or flaking.
2. New concrete slabs must be thoroughly dry (at least six weeks) and completely cured. Curing agents, surface hardeners and other additives
may cause adhesive bonding failure. These should be removed by sanding or grinding.
3. All concrete slabs must be checked for moisture before installing material. Moisture emissions from subfloor cannot exceed 3 lbs. per 1,000 sq.
ft. per 24 hours as measured with the calcium chloride test or in excess of 75% in situ relative humidity. Responsibility for determining if the
concrete is dry enough for installation of the flooring lies with the owner and installer.
4. Surface alkalinity of concrete substrate should be tested for the presence of alkali salt build up. Excessive alkali can cause adhesive and vinyl
failure. A simple pH paper can determine the presence of excessive alkali salt. Pour a small amount of distilled water on the slab and allow
it to stand for a minimum of one minute. Place the pH paper strip into the distilled water. The acceptable range should be 5 to 9. Corrective
measures must be taken if the pH exceeds these guidelines.
Wood Suboors
NOTE: As with many other interior finish products, modification of existing structural components may be required for a successful installation.
1. Nail or screw any areas that are loose or squeak. Wood panels should exhibit an adequate fastening pattern, glued, screwed or nailed as the
system requires, typically 6" along bearing edges and 12" along intermediate supports. Flatten edge swell as necessary. Replace any water-
damaged, swollen or delaminated subflooring or underlayment.
2. Wood subfloor panels should be a minimum of 1" or thicker and free of vertical deflection. All fasteners must be flush with the subfloor panels.
3. Basements and crawl spaces must be dry. Use of a 6 mil black polyethylene membrane is required to cover 100% of the crawl space earth.
Crawl space clearance from ground to underside of joist should be no less than 18", and perimeter vent spacing should be equal to 1.5% of the
total square footage of the crawl space area to provide cross ventilation.