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HOW TO FINISH
VINYL FLOORING

Finish your Quick-Step
vinyl floor in style

To make your new floor uniquely ‘you’, we’ve got a range of options available that enable you to finish your project in style: from matching skirting boards and profiles to instructions on how to add vinyl to your stairs to achieve that unified look. Here’s everything you need to know to get all the details right!

Finishing Alpha Vinyl

A man playing with a dog in a modern home office with grey vinyl flooring.

Step-by-step guide

Consult an expert

A professional installer fits light vinyl flooring and skirting along a staircase, ensuring a precise and seamless finish.

STEP 1: Install your skirting boards

For every Alpha Vinyl floor there’s a skirting board that perfectly matches its design. Installing your skirtings is easy:

  1. Start by measuring the corners of your room
  2. Use a circular saw to cut the skirting boards to the right angle
  3. Put glue onto each skirting board and press it firmly in place
  4. Make them perfectly waterproof with the dedicated Hydrostrip

 

Read more about installing skirting boards on a vinyl floor

STEP 2: Add profiles

Finishing profiles serve multiple purposes: they help level height differences, let you combine flooring types, and are sometimes needed in larger rooms. Luckily, all Quick-Step finishing profiles are easy to install without breaking a sweat. Depending on your taste, go for our perfectly colour-matched 5-in-1 Incizo profile, or pick one of our aluminium profiles.

 

Explore our range of profiles

Download Incizo® instructions

STEP 3: Get all the details right

Something’s not quite right yet.” You know the feeling. Give your room the finishing touch it deserves by adding our radiator covers. Or, use the Kit to finish up the places where you cannot install skirting boards.

 

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A close-up view of a radiator pipe cover installed on a light wood laminate floor.

STEP 4: Finish your stairs

Want to go all the way? Consider adding the luxurious appeal of your new Alpha Vinyl floor to your stairs. Here’s how you do it:

  • Remove all the old floor covering and make sure your stairs are clean and level.
  • Saw your planks to the dimensions of each step’s vertical side.
  • Glue the cut plank to the vertical side
  • Place an aluminium profile on the edge of the stairs and firmly screw it into place.
  • Saw your planks to size to cover each step and glue them down, making sure they fit snugly against the vertical side.
  • Repeat, repeat, repeat – depending on the number of stairs. 

 

Learn more about installing vinyl on stairs

Explore all stair profiles

 

A watertight finish in 5 easy steps

Creating a watertight finish is super easy. Follow the steps for Alpha Vinyl that’s ready for splashes, moisture, and all the bathroom fun your kids could ever want. It can take a good cleaning too, with water and our Quick-Step Cleaning product!

Underlay ready for vinyl flooring installation.
Step 1

Install your underlay.

Vinyl flooring installed with an expansion gap.
Step 2

Install your Alpha Vinyl floor. Provide an 8 mm expansion gap between walls and floor.

Foam strip placed between the wall and the floor.
Step 3

Install a foamstrip between the wall and your floor.

Hydrokit applied to the foam strip.
Step 4

Apply the hydrokit on top of the foamstrip.

Skirting boards in matching colour installed to complete the floor.
Step 5

Install your colour-matched skirting. Time to enjoy your brand-new floor!

Still got questions?

Need help finishing your project to your satisfaction?
Take a look at our help centre, which contains answers to the most frequently asked questions!

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