Best Way To Cut Laminate Flooring Around Door Frames

This technique is very simple and you will be surprised.

Best way to cut laminate flooring around door frames.

This is by far the best way to finish a floor at any doorway. 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. Well let s take a look. If your flooring runs parallel with the door you ll likely have only one piece of laminate to trim.

You can see i ve cut the bottom of the door lining right out the way like before only where it won t be seen when the skirting and architrave are back on and i have even chopped a bit of the plaster out the way. This needs the laminate to be bent up so as to get the board to lock into the other board but the laminate i cut is under the door frame so cant be bent up. In this video i show you how to easily measure and mark a laminate plank to go around a doorjamb. The way i choose the first bit to put in is to figure which board i can slide the furthest so it s out of the way of the next one.

But what tool can be used to accomplish this. One of the absolute necessities of a neat professional finish when installing a solid wood engineered or laminate floor is the ability to cut into door frames and architraves so the flooring can be neatly slid under. Watch installing a laminate floor around the door frame. Try not to cut higher than the gauge block or a gap will appear between the flooring and the jamb.

On a long hall with 7 doors i tried to cut the door frame with a multi tool worked very well until i came to the door across the way. 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. Measure on the inner jamb as well as both sides of the door where the trim is located. If there s a gap under your door casing and also a gap between two rooms under a door where two different installations of laminate flooring join you can install t molding to hide both gaps.

Make sure you take accurate measurements and leave 1 3 around the walls or in the transitions to other flooring. Cut the door s molding and the jamb behind it while keeping the saw on top of the gauge block.