How To Cut Sheet Vinyl Flooring Around Door Frame

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How to cut sheet vinyl flooring around door frame. With a couple of tricks and a fair bit of patience you can get nice results. In this video i show you how to easily measure and mark a laminate plank to go around a doorjamb. The picture below is terrible quality apologies. Install casing first.

Cut a full size paper template. This technique is very simple and you will be surprised. Cutting vinyl tile to fit around obstacles can be tricky. To fit vinyl around a door frame make a series of vertical cuts to the point where the vinyl meets the floor.

This allows you to butt the tile right up to the door frame. Measure on the inner jamb as well as both sides of the door where the trim is located. If your flooring runs parallel with the door you ll likely have only one piece of laminate to trim. Photo 2 shows how to cut off the bottom of the door trim and jambs so the new vinyl flooring will slide under them.

Then install the door casing leaving a small space between the top of the tile and the bottom of the casing. It s easy to end up with an unsightly gap. When you make the template slide the square under the jamb before you mark the paper photo 5. You can just about see the floor stops about 80 90mm before the door and needs to go a little past that so it is half way underneath it.

Here s how to cut vinyl tile around door jambs and how to cut vinyl tile to fit around a toilet around a corner or other obstacles. Dave demostrates the proper method of flooring installation around doors casings jambs and baseboards. This is a lot easier than trying to cut the vinyl to fit around the moldings. There is not much room to manoeuvre.

Ceramic tile is difficult to cut at odd angles while wood is much easier to cut. 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. 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.