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Cut and Install First Planks

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What happens here

The presenter demonstrates the "angle-locking system" of the COREtec planks. Instead of tapping, the planks are angled into the preceding one and gently pressed down until they snap into place. This significantly reduces the risk of damaging the planks during installation. He describes this as a tool-free method for securing the long edges. He then uses a specialized flooring cutter (Ryobi brand is shown) to cut the planks to the required length for the ends of rows or for starting new rows with staggered patterns.

Goal: Begin installing the vinyl planks using the angle-locking system and appropriate cutting techniques.

Tools and materials

  • Flooring Cutter Ryobi
  • COREtec Pro Series Vinyl Planks COREtec

What they say

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now let's get back into this video let's go and on top of it it's got a heavy 15-year commercial warranty on it and on top of that well what else is there to say oh the color I guess it's a Cairo Oak that's the style of it this is actually very similar color uh of my house that my personal house so uh because the misses approved that this should be easily approved as well oh and by the way I just got a new knife Lucky Me Now what I'm really excited about this product is that you don't need any tools usually you have this little pry bar looking thing to get it all the the joints locked in place but cortech calls this the angle Locking System so these are one of the hardest parts to do is the side stuff usually tap it in and with my luck I always rip this uh you know the top layer off so what you do is you just feed it into place line it up so you got goes in there just hold it in place and boom no more tapping needed that's actually really cool like I said I always use my little block tap tap tap and I break maybe 10% of my boards so hopefully this will be fast and this will be fun I'll actually tell you guys how long it'll take me to do just this room and you can compare apples to apples let's get to [Music] [Applause] work first thing you need to start your pattern always have a pattern full piece 3/4 piece and uh a one4 piece that way you know it kind of skews the the eye from finding anything

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