Laminate Flooring Around Toilet

Surprisingly laminate flooring is a better bathroom flooring choice than solid hardwood.

Laminate flooring around toilet.

Start with the flooring. When you are installing laminate flooring in your bathroom remodel you probably want to make your cuts outside and not in the bathroom. Do you have a toilet pillar or another round object in the room. If you re installing a new floor pedestal sink and toilet you should install the laminate flooring first so it s under the sink and toilet.

You typically use the same technique for laying the flooring around the toilet flange the round fitting at the floor under the toilet that you use when laying around a post. You will need a jigsaw to cut the laminate flooring to fit around the flange. For wood flooring lay it from one side of the room to the other. Use a template of each plank to obtain the shape that you need for each edge that will need to be cut to fit around the flange.

Laminate flooring is essentially resin impregnated paper atop a wood chip base. Toilets seldom present a problem when installing laminate flooring because you have to remove the toilet before laying the floor. Because laminate flooring floats above the sub floor on top of underlayment it will expand and contract slightly with the temperature and humidity of the room. Laying a floor may seem impossible but that is far from the truth.

On top is a clear coat called the wear layer. Mark the perimeter of the toilet flange with the pencil on the edges of the laminate pieces but add an extra 1 4 inch of space to allow for expansion and movement of the flooring material with the. The flange is a ring that holds the anchor bolts for your toilet and the wax ring. Lay the bathroom floor according to the type of flooring you re using.

Either way stop when you get to the area around the toilet drain. For hard or vinyl tiles tile from the middle outward. This method of creat.