Here's the exact floor I am installing in this video: bit.ly/3rh3kds It's the color Fawn Chestnut!

I admire your patience in planning the initial layout. A friend of mine always says, “ A job well planned is half finished. “

Finally a video with a woman explaining I’ve watch a lot of videos with men explaining how to do this and it’s like they are speaking a different language. Your voice sounds so calming and nothing was over complicated. Thanks.

Wow this takes a little more money & time than I thought. People who do this are so patient & artistic. Too much math, design skills, back pain, saws that I don't own or even know how to use. Props to this woman, it came out beautifully.

You’re right. Never place permanent cabinets over a floating floor. Next time you check for nails and or staples use a wide taping knife. It cuts down in the amount of band aides. Better job than I’ve seen so called professionals do. Excellent.

I bought this as a gift for my friend kzfaq.infoUgkxcZqgZ8Ynkiz5n_LxIWRlAicuzmz5kCHG who is just starting out in the world of wood work. He loves it!! There is a great section on different wood and what to use for what kind of job and a similar section for tools as well. The projects in it are things you probably would have a go at with clear instructions, pictures, videos and diagrams throughout. Great for a beginner/amateur wood worker.

Raising a family and do what you with this channel is so impressive. Your energy level has to be off the charts.

It looks so good! I didn’t realize you had to pull up four old layers of flooring. That sounds like a nightmare. You never cease to amaze and inspire!

Melissa - The flooring is perfect color choice for matching the cabinets in the kitchen! It has the old country feel when I see it! Excellent kiddo!

Oh wow! Thank you so much for this! I had no idea that laminate flooring did not require any sealant or nails - just cut and lay. So cool!

I really enjoy your videos and I like that you aren't intimidated by doing things for the first time! It would help my heart to see your table saw on legs or a stand and also using a push stick with your table saw. ❤️ The floor looks fantastic!

This tutorial on installing laminate flooring is a lifesaver for beginners like me! The step-by-step instructions were super clear and easy to follow. Plus, your tips on avoiding common mistakes were really insightful. Thanks for making a potentially daunting task seem so manageable! 🏡

Superb tutorial. You nailed it. Not too long, not too short and it covered all the important points. Anyone would be forgiven for thinking you are a professional teacher for this type of work. I actually needed thoughts on planning the boards for a ceiling and got them from this video. Thanks !

Was installed by my husband without underlayment, over ceramic tile. Came out beautifully. Used Mohawk waterproof laminated. We used Woodmill Oak. It is a wide oak. Finished in 3 days.

Your video here on the flooring installation, as all of your videos are so comprehensible. I am in my late 50's with back issues... and I plan on tackling all of my home's remodel. Other than that, all I have is my 22-year-old daughter to help me with the remodel and the new flooring installation I plan on doing. You did an excellent job at explaining the process of laying the flooring, and you show more than 99.99 % of what both DIY'ers and professionals show in their youtube videos. You explain everything so well, and then some. I have never seen anyone speak of the backer rod until now and I find it absolutely beneficial in knowing that information. Your channel is awesome, and I am so glad that I found it. I will be utilizing all of your tips and advice during my entire remodel. Thank you so much for sharing your phenomenal knowledge and skills.

Great planing, good color choices and fantastic knowledge of the installation process. You are AMAZING!

I'm glad you added the info about it being waterproof. A few years ago I put a very similar (conventional, non-waterproof) laminate in my kitchen, and that was a mistake. I spent years mopping up every drop that would fall from the sink. lol. VCT is another good option for kitchens that avoids this problem. Live and learn...

Loved this video - congratulations on a great flooring solution - you did such a great job. Your commentary, and tips and tricks are clear, concise and so easy to follow 👍

Good planing on leaving a place to "weave" the living room floor into the kitchen. Great job laying the floor. Very clear on what you were doing. Thank you!

Excellent! after watching several video's on floor installation found this one the best - no ego - no wasted talk - brilliant! you beet thew guys

Great content, I’m about to install 400sq.ft. of the same product first time. Good for you for NOT being afraid to fail; well done! Also, I never realized a caulking gun could both clip the tip and puncture the cylinder, thank you for my learning experience.

That floor is *gorgeous* what a beautiful job installing and thanks for all the helpful hints!

Finally a video I understand! I watched multiple other people’s videos and this is the only one I understand. Thank you for showing all your steps.

You absolutely do inspire me, and I too have many layers of flooring to clean up first. Can hardly wait to start. Thanks

My son and I watched any number of videos before installing around 1700' feet of Mohawk laminate and this video was one of the most helpful. The suggestion to measure carefully so as not to end up with a narrow patch was great, as was the advice to use the tapper regularly. Here are the tips that we picked up over a few days of installing: 1) In most of the videos, you will see that the wall surface meets the foundation. We were installing on a concrete foundation in Houston where we had to poor 66 bags (ugh) of leveler to get the floors close to level. Many of the rooms had 1/2' or larger gaps between the wallboard and the foundation even after the leveler. When tapping into the spacers, they would bend under the wallboard. We solved the problem by using 3/8" casing material in 10' lengths after first trying low-expanding form (that worked, too). 2) it took us 3 rows when starting any room to get the rows to have any stability. We would stand on row 3 and tap back in from the first row and then stand on the first row and tap on the 3rd or on the ends. Once we got all three rows together, the rest flowed pretty easily. 3) we used a Roberts laminate floor cutter to trim the boards to avoid running out to the saw. It can be hard to keep it at 90 degrees. Check it regularly. 4) we ended up with a couple of bigger than 3/8" gaps along the wall and resolved it by using 2 types of moulding, a 5.25 inch rectangular piece and a fancier 3.5" inch nailed into it. It looked great after we caulked it. CAULK cures all! 5) Make sure that everything is tight on a row before moving on (post row 3). You will get some boards that have the connections damaged. Cut them out and the boards will connect. Every so often, the end piece is not level. Those can't be saved except for an end or beginning piece. 6) We had about 11 different patterns in our boxes. We would take 5 boxes apart and sort them. There are often three pairs in a box of eight planks. 7) Don't hack it together. It can be a lot more frustrating than it looks on video, but the end result is great.

The tip about the backer rod and then silicone sealant is awesome. I don't think I saw anyone else doing that so thank you.

I have not seen that trick with the backer rod and silicone to prevent water damage yet thanks for that I will be trying that when I lay laminate for the first time this weekend

Absolutely love the flooring color with your cabinet color!!

This floor is awesome! This is the kind of floor I’d like to replace my laminate with one day…soon!

That’s a good looking floor. Thank ya for taking us along and showing the tips for install. You always do great work!

Good job. Vice grips work great for removing staples, 15 and 18 gauge nails. Adjust the heads so when closed they are touching. Open them up and put them over what you are pulling out. Squeeze them closed and roll them on the radius of the vice grip head. No pulling!

Girl girl you are AMAZING. So proud of you. You gave me courage.

Your dedication to perfection is off the charts!

Great video. That's the first time I heard a good argument for why you don't want to run flooring underneath your kitchen cabinets. Makes a lot of sense. Hope your back is feeling good. Laying flooring usually gets me on an ice pack for a day or two.

Wow, kudos to you!! I’m unsure of things like big projects but you gave me confidence that I can accomplish this too. Thank you for sharing your experience ❤

Well thought out and an incredible end product! Excited to see the rest!!!

Lovely job and well explained. I think your pattern repeat idea is great since as you say it makes the floor look more natural. One small point: the underlayment should be laid at 90 degrees to the laminate direction.

Great video. That floor is gorgeous! You did a great job on the installation.

What a great video you share, I learned alot. The floor with the cabinets looks just amazing. Love the colors.

I have that same jigsaw! I love it!! It’s so quiet and light.

Love the floor, it looks great! Good Job!!

Looks absolutely awesome great job

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!

I really enjoyed your video. Very thorough, and you explained things very well. Looks great!

You are doing a outstanding job it's looking beautiful ❤️ good luck with your finish project and more to come

You did a great job on the installation Great video. Very informative.

I like the way you say Jigsaw with an "a" ! 😄 Amazing video, as a structural engineer I admire the level of preciseness and detail in joinery\tiling\cladding etc and fit out works in general, you've earned a sub here!

I really like how you painted the kick boards to match the cabinets instead of them in black

Thanks, good video. I've tended to cut laminate flooring with a handsaw, which takes *slightly* longer than most kinds of power saw but makes less dust (because the saw blade in thin) and distributes it less widely (because the saw is moving more more slowly).

I enjoyed your video here and am Impressed with what you have done all by yourself. It looks amazing. As a guy who can fix and repair just about anything, flooring is the only thing on my bucket list to accomplish. Watching your video inspires me And again you did a pro job! Tttm.

Your kitchen floor is a great match. That's a real nice color blend. At first I thought about replacing my kitchen with vinyl flooring but after seeing your laminate flooring I may lay laminate. My whole house is carpeted except the bathrooms and kitchen floor. I think now I will mix it up a bit. I just finished redoing one bathroom. I may as well keep going! Thank you for your tips.

Really nice to see a none professional doing a really nice accurate job , big thumbs up … Stuart SDG flooring Oxford .

You definitely inspired me I’m putting down floors just like that

I like the toe kick add on piece, nice touch!

Very thorough, and you explained things very well. Looks great!

I thank you for this video! I am putting in a snap together floor for the first time and there are many things I would have done wrong! There is a youtube for everything I do these days!

What a brilliant well thought out job. I’ve laid a lot of wood floors but one main thing you should use is... knee pads. 😊 Great job 😊

You Rock! Thanks for the inspo to install my own flooring!!

Wow. I wonder if the "professionals," do it the way that you did it. I have to put flooring, now I am going to be asking a billion questions. I'll do it myself, but it is two story house. I am living vicorously through you, since I love DIYs. It look gorgeous💖

Choosing a floor color/type/pattern is so overwhelming for me. Thank you for being so detailed. I think I'm going to use the exact materials that you're using to help me with this anxiety that I have lol hard to explain, but I need all the extra details and tips that you give to feel confident in finally making a decision for our floors. thank you!!!

Beautiful work, I am admiring it!

I admire you for being able to work with inches and feet! Thank God we work with cm and meter here. Calculating in fractions of inch would send me crazy.

Don't get too comfortable with the "waterproof" feature of these floors. We installed these exact ones a couple of years ago and the first time some water sat more than a few minutes over a seam, that corner of the plank swelled. If you wipe it up right away, it's usually fine, but we definitely have a couple of swell spots from unnoticed liquid sloshes/spills. There's no such thing as a truly waterproof laminate. Hope you have better luck with them than we did.

Fantastic video! Thank you! ⚡️

Beautiful !!,the floor looks great too

Excellent job. Very well explained.

A tip for your viewers that may be interested in installing that flooring but can’t find it under that name. It’s also marketed under the Pergo name as Rustic Amber Chestnut. I recently installed it in a kitchen remodel and also in my own house. I actually paused the video and picked out identical pieces in my floor because it looked so familiar. Good choice Melissa it’s a beautiful floor

Well done, looks great!

I learned so much in this video thank you!

WoW, GREAT JOB ..... Well done video and great info. Your floor looks AMAZING.......

Looks awesome, Great Job!

Its amazing, thank you for making continue sharing a vedio fo r flooring installation

Nice, clean install and very informative video.

Backer-rod to support silicone, great tip

It's looks great. I like the snap on wood.. the color for me I don't know.. great job

Awesome video, Wish I watched it before doing my floor in my new apartment.

I was thinking about doing this myself but this looks like a pretty big job.

Nice job!! Thank you!

Nagyon jó hogy így neki álltál ennek a padlónak, de ahogy elnézem, segítség nélkül nem tudtad volna megcsinálni. Ha lehetne pár tippem. A faltól való távolság 1 cm minimum. Az éket fordítva tedd be, könnyebb kivenni. A lerakásnál hol jobbról, hol balról kezded. A laminátnak van egy rakásiránya, tehát mindig egy oldalról kezdjük és a leesö darabbal folytatjuk, így kevesebb a hulladék. A kezdö darab minimum 30 cm legyen. Nem ismerem azokat az anyagokat amit ott használtok, de nálunk nem kell a laminátot a végéröl kalapáni, rengeteg idöt vesz el és megsérülhet. Ha le van téve 3-4 sor akkor tegyél rá súlyt a maradék laminátból hogy ne mozogjon amikor a következö sort rakod le. Látszik a videón hogy mozog amikor kalapálod. Igazából nem értem miért kell annyit kalapálni, mert a mai anyagokat már elég kézzel lerakni, csak ritkán kell kalapács. Amit a végén beraksz a (BACKER ROD) azt fuga kitöltésre használják. Ha oda benyomkodod a laminát ás a fal közé, akkor elveszed a mozgás lehetöségét a laminátnak. A szilikont csak úgy újjal nem lehet normálisan elhúzni, csak szétkenni. Ide egy kenöanyagot szoktunk használi, amivel szépen ellehet simitani.

You absolutely don't have to fill in all those little holes and small gaps. The laminate will lay right over it, and with the backing that comes on it, you will never notice something that small.

Thank you, absolutely Very good video for beginner.

Great video. Very informative.

Thank for this video! Helped me a lot!!

You got that floor so water tight virtually a indoor swimming pool 👍 nice job

A very informative video thank you.

fantastic install, thank you for posting

Beautiful work, beautiful job, awesome video 😎

That looks good and you done a great job

Looks Fantastic! Cheers!

Well done Melissa and keep up the good work 👍 👏

Girl very informative video. I appreciate that. In stalled my floor from your video. Very cool thanks

Melissa....is there something you cannot do ????? That floor looks fantastic !!!! Thanks for the video !!!!

Very informative. Thank you.

It’s beautiful!

Excellent job really awesome 👏

Hi from the UK nd thanks for sharing your video. I'm about to lay some flooring next week, so I've liked and subscribed.

Looks fabulous 👍

Thank you for your video, that really help me.

I finish this floor in 30 minutes without complicating some things that you do, you are a working girl anyway 👍

Great job. Your video is very informative.