Laminate Flooring Around Door Jambs

When installing laminate flooring obstacles such as doors present a problem because you have to make cuts for a correct fit.

Laminate flooring around door jambs.

Prepare the doorway for the flooring installation by cutting off the bottoms of the door jambs with a handsaw. Set a spare piece of flooring on the floor next to each jamb and use it as a guide. Laying laminate through doorways where two rooms meet getting them neat around the door jambs. Make sure you take accurate measurements and leave 1 3 around the walls or in the transitions to other flooring.

First butt a piece of laminate against the bottom of the door jamb and draw a line where the top of the laminate meets the door jamb. If you re removing old flooring the door jamb may already have enough clearance for your new laminate. 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. If not you ll need an undercut saw to trim your door jamb neatly and accurately.

You can deal with door jambs by trimming the molding that conceals the. 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. 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.