September 28, at My wife and I are new home owners and we have started doing a lot of DIY projects, one of which is installing laminate flooring in our home. Just starting out had an idea about what we were doing but your article really helped us make our flooring look beautiful. The most helpful tip was trimming the door jambs, we never would have thought of that.
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Just the raised ridge on the top of it that holds the join together. Once you have removed the ridge, test with an off-cut that it slides in and out OK on another off-cut before trying to install it. In this first example I had to work out how to lay laminate flooring in a doorway continously because the same floor was in the hallway and the downstairs toilet WC.
Not only that, the plinth blocks are already installed and decorated as well making it a little more tricky. Because both the hallway and the bathroom were fairly small I didn't need to have a threshold at the doorway. If I'm laying a floor in two larger rooms I always use a threshold because you need that expansion gap. All I had to do was set-out the position of the door jamb and plinth blocks onto the next floor board and add mm all the way round the outline so there would be no gap once I slide it under the door frame, architrave and plinth block.
Sometimes to make my job easier, I may make a bigger expansion gap by chopping a bit more of the door lining or plaster out behind, where it won't be seen later normally because it will be covered by a skirting board or architrave for example.
Because I'd planed the ridge of the tongue off It slid over really easily. Just make sure you put loads of wood glue on the join. In this next example I was laying laminate in a doorway of an old house that I had installed a kitchen in.
This is probably a slightly harder example of getting laminate in a doorway neatly but was still possible and looked great when it was finished. If I had started laying the floor at this part of the room I would have used one long board for this section. But it went differently;. Because this wasn't continuous like the first example, step one of laying laminate in a doorway like this is to mark where the door threshold will be under the centre of the door when it's in the closed position.
Look at the underside of the door bar, you'll be able to tell where the floor needs to stop in order for the to fit over it. Transfer this onto the door lining. Mark a 10mm expansion gap back from this point. The picture below is terrible quality - apologies. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas. By Robert Korpella. Related Articles. You may still need to cut the planks before they will slide under the door jamb, but these cuts will be squared rather than curved to match a molding profile.
The cuts will not show since they will be hidden under the door jamb. These tools cut on the upstroke. Any splintering caused by the blade exiting the material will occur on the side of the plank that faces down. The reverse is true when cutting on a table saw.
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