Laminate Flooring Around Door Jambs

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.

Laminate flooring around door jambs.

Make sure you take accurate measurements and leave 1 3 around the walls or in the transitions to other flooring. If not you ll need an undercut saw to trim your door jamb neatly and accurately. When installing laminate flooring obstacles such as doors present a problem because you have to make cuts for a correct fit. But when the last few floorboards of your laminate floor need to be laid under.

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. 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. Laying laminate through doorways where two rooms meet getting them neat around the door jambs. Prepare the doorway for the flooring installation by cutting off the bottoms of the door jambs with a handsaw.

If you re removing old flooring the door jamb may already have enough clearance for your new laminate. 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. I m no expert i m just showing you what i did in case i.