Heat welding vinyl floor with heat gun hot air gun.
How to weld vinyl sheets.
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Chemical welding also referred to as cold welding is the process of chemically fusing two sheets of resilient sheet vinyl flooring together at the seam.
Groove out the seam to two thirds of the depth of the material with a hand groover or turbo groover.
For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape.
As you hold the rod in place sweep the nozzle back and forth 3 or 4 times to melt it.
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The general procedure used to manually groove and heat weld a seam in commercial vinyl is as follows.
Make sure that the width of the ribbon that s cut from the edge of each sheet is the same.
Hold the nozzle about 2 54 cm 1 00 in above the crack tilting the gun at a 45 degree angle.
In this instructional video you will learn the basics.
When done incorrectly seams will begin to separate and or discolor especially in traffic areas.
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Different types of welding needs to be used.
With linoleum a bonding process between the linoleum and the rod is used.
When using removable adhesive vinyl you can save the small details for after you have completely transferred your piece.
With sheet vinyl you use a thermo fusion process a combination of melting and fusion between the rod and the flooring material.
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In this video you will learn the basics of heat welding while seeing a demonstration.
Swing the welding gun back and forth if you re doing a pendulum weld.
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The heat welding process arrived in north america in the late 1980s and when done correctly sheet vinyl seams create an aseptic seam with great integrity.
Heat weld vinyl seams learn some tips and tricks of the trade on heat welding commercial sheet vinyl flooring from an armstrong expert.
The rod acts like a glue stick.