How To Make Doorway Cuts For Laminate Flooring

Plan on a seam in the middle of the doorway.

How to make doorway cuts for laminate flooring.

If the door works properly measure the width of the opening and add the width of the casing on both sides. Once cut the flooring will just slip under it leaving a more finished look. Then you tap the block with your rubber mallet to move a piece of flooring tight against the end of its neighbor. The ends and edges of all laminate flooring have interlocking tongue and groove profiles that would get crushed and ruined if you hit them directly with a mallet or hammer.

Installing the tilt up laminate under door jambs. If needed take a plank of flooring and a section of the underlayment and lay it finished side down next to the door s moulding. Notch the second piece so it ll be just short of the door stop when it s in place. Notch and cut the first piece to fit and then slide it completely under the jamb.

This is where a tapping block comes in. Step 1 use a circular saw or a handsaw with at least 18 teeth per inch to avoid chipping it. Cut the molding to size using a coping saw. To install the last row of laminate under a door.

It s much easier to cut the trim around doorways than it is to cut the flooring to match the moulding s irregular shape. Buying a pull saw is the best choice as it is not expensive and it will make accurate cuts. During the flooring installation laying laminate in a doorway perfectly is not so difficult when you start laying the floor boards at the wall that has the door in it. Lay a piece of underlay and a board of laminate flooring board on the sub floor and on top of them the pull saw.

There are others out there if you look. Make a small mark on the edge of the laminate so you know where to cut or use a chalk pencil to draw your measurement line across the face of the laminate. But when the last few floorboards of your laminate floor need to be laid under the door jambs or through the door lining or door frame it seems impossible to get them in without. A few of the uniclic laminate floors are mohawk quick step and columbia.

1 x research sourcestep 2 mark the line on the laminate flooring. Shaped to conform to the tongue and groove profile on the ends of laminate flooring the block sits tight against the laminate. Next cut the door jamb with great care making sure the blade is perfectly level. This type of saw is very small and easy to.

You can easily wipe the chalk off the surface after you are done cutting 2 x research sourcestep 3 leave the laminate facing right side up and cut it with a circular saw or. Laying a laminate floor in a regular pattern decreases its ability to contract and expand as a whole unit and instead does so as single laminate boards often causing gaps or even lifting like a hinge. A good example of an h joint can be seen in this image on the left. In this video i show you how to easily measure and mark a laminate plank to go around a doorjamb.

This technique is very simple and you will be surprised.