ENGLISH – INSTALLATION GUIDE
HYDROSTOP by US-FLOOR
Congratulations! You are about to install HYDROSTOP “The #1 WaterProof Flooring”. Welcome to the ultimate and newest generation of Vinyl Floor available on market. SPC also known as Rigid Core LVT, is an upgraded click Floating Luxury Vinil Plank. This amazing product features: Enhanced Stability, High Performance, 100% Virgin Material and 100% Waterproof thanks to HYDROSTOP a scientific technology that completely repel water on planks surface. This product is also a High Density Solid Core, Formaldehyde-free, and uses components safe for residential and commercial installations, resulting on a stable, fire-retardand and rigid composite material with an extraordinary performance. Since wide plank flooring is wider and therefore takes up more surface area than narrower alternatives, the installation tends to take far less time. If you’re pressed for time, and want no water-issues later with the floor HYDROSTOP is the way to go. The faster the installation, the sooner you can get to enjoying your beautiful new floor and wall! Wide plank flooring, lighter shades, in particular, are also gaining popularity in contemporary spaces. In large spaces, the wide planks and light tones can give an airy, open feel. Wide plank flooring also means fewer seams between boards. Check all our HYDROSTOP Collection and you will find light blue, whites, light beiges, and greys tones for both the Do it Yourself or the professional installation. Use in light-wet zones floor and walls with confidence.
FLOOR INSTALLATION GUIDE
RECOMMENDED TIPS
If this is a multi-Tonal model the most important thing to do before installing any type of flooring is to open as many boxes as possible. Why? Because with high variation flooring, you’re going to have different shades and colors across your boxes. To truly make the right statement with your flooring, open as many boxes as possible to first look at what you have. Lay out the planks temporarily to see how the colors will line up. This is where you can get creative. With high variation flooring, you want to avoid having two similar-looking planks installed next to each other (this point applies only for multi-tonal high variation models)
Install confident on all grade levels / temperature controlled. Can be use for residential and light commercial.
Interior use only. If use on exteriors should be on a non-wet zone an under roof beyond all the covering area.
This floor is not intended to be used as a structural material. If so will be responsability of Installer- Owner
Before installation, check carefully the floor planks for any possible damage or defects. Claims- warranty will not be accepted regarding visual defects after flooring has been installed.
Will be owner-installer responsability if any planks are unacceptable due to color, finish, milling or any other reason, and should be determine to use them, hide in areas like closets, trim off the imperfection, or not install them at all.
The basements, and garages should be dry and ventilated.
5% waste is recommended to add for cutting above the actual square footage. 10% extra material would be better if install diagonal you may require.
An extra box is also recommended that you retain for future repairs (when required).
On very large areas, leave at least 1/4″ for expansion space. And must be placed between the flooring and all vertical obstructions (door jams, walls, staircases, posts, pipes, fixtures, etc.).
Planks should not be glued, and can not screwed, nailed, or otherwise fixed (e.g. closet track, door stopper,) to the subfloor in any way. It must have room to expand and contract freely.
Can be installed in light-wet areas but can not be installed in exterior wet areas like patios or exteriors unless the outdoor area be below a roof.
Be sure that subfloors be Clean, Dry and Flat. If found differences in floor flatness must either be sanded or ground down, or built-up with a suitable floor leveling material because improper substrate or flatness can result in gaps, or poor plank fitting during assembly.
Install confident over most existing floors if clean, flat, dry, and well bonded/secured tile flooring, vinyl flooring, sheet vinyl, VCT, LVT, ceramic tile, and hardwood flooring that have a wood subfloor underneath
Don’t install over cushioned vinyl flooring, or any existing floating floor products.
Carpeting must be removed before laying this floor
This product doesn’t requires acclimation. However leaving at least 24 hours in the area where installation will be performed would be a good practice.
HYDROSTOP doesn’t requires underlayment if subfloor is flat enough. However, if subfloor have evident and clear imperfections an underlayment positioning would be better. HYDROSTOP PREMIUM already comes with a 1mm PAD attached then no additional underlayment is required.
INSTALLATION TOOLS
Safety Glasses, Tape Measure, Metal Framing Square, Rubber Hammer, 1/4″ Spacers, Utility Knife, Chalk line or pencil.
BEGINING INSTALLATION
Decide which direction the planks will be installed. Sunlight entering direction is reccomended for creating a sense of larger space.
For a best looking floor, it would be better to mix planks, pulling from different boxes.
HOW TO ASSEMBLE HYDROSTOP by FLOORSHOP.US SPC FLOORING – RIGID CORE LUXURY VINYL PLANK
Be sure that all doors will swing open with enough clearance over the planks. Remove any existing quarter round, shoe moldings and doorway transitions. Place wedged spacers for a 1/4″ expansion gap between the planks and the walls or other fixed objects. The spacers must be adjacent to each plank joint, at the beginning and end of each row on the whole area.
INSTALLING THE FIRST ROW
Lay the first plank in the right-hand corner, up against the spacers, with the groove side facing toward you. Follow the next CLICK STEPS IMAGES and then continue installing the first row in the same way. At the end of the first row, put a 1⁄4” spacer againist the wall and measure to get the lenght needed for the last plank.

