Laminate Flooring Around Door Frames

Next you have to cut the groove of the laminate board you are going to lay under the door jambs by using a sharp utility knife.

Laminate flooring around door frames.

When installing laminate flooring obstacles such as doors present a problem because you have to make cuts for a correct fit. Using a framing square measure the depth of your door jamb by sliding the square under the newly cut gap until the tool hits the door frame or stud. First of all you have to measure the needed length of the laminate flooring boards you have to install around the doors. It is often easiest if you start to lay the laminate at the door leading into the room this can be harder if there are several doors.

You can deal with door jambs by trimming the molding that conceals the. 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. Make sure you take accurate measurements and leave 1 3 around the walls or in the transitions to other flooring. In this video i show you how i installed some luxury vinyl plank flooring around a couple of doors.

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. We recently had to install some coretec plus xl luxury vinyl and thought this trick could be useful for some people installing laminate or luxury vinyl floor. I m no expert i m just showing you what i did in case i.