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.

Laying laminate through doorways where two rooms meet getting them neat around the door jambs. But when the last few floorboards of your laminate floor need to be laid under. If not you ll need an undercut saw to trim your door jamb neatly and accurately. 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.

First of all you have to measure the needed length of the laminate flooring boards you have to install around the doors. In this video i show you how i installed some luxury vinyl plank flooring around a couple of doors. 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. Prepare the doorway for the flooring installation by cutting off the bottoms of the door jambs with a handsaw.

I m no expert i m just showing you what i did in case i. 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. 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. Set a spare piece of flooring on the floor next to each jamb and use it as a guide.