How do I fit Laminate flooring around door frames?

Answer 1

You have to use a razor blade and cut it around the frame.

Answer 2

Cut the bottom off the frame - use a piece of laminate to guage the amount to cut off and mark a line - cut that part away and allow the laminate to slide under the frame edge - OR - Remove the frame and put floor down and fit new architrave

Answer 3

You don't go around the frame. First, make a pencil mark around the bottom of the frame, the height of which is the combined thickness of the laminate AND the padding. Then, use a coping saw to cut the frame away.

You will find it easier to install the laminate if you pull the hinge pins and remove the door.

Answer 4

I am married to a flooring installer and I help him on many jobs. In my opinion it looks very unproffesional to go around a door frame. You can purchase an undercut saw for fairly cheap at home depot. You then take a piece of flooring and place the saw ontop so that it is the hieght of your floor and you undercut the door frame. Then you can slide the flooring right under the frame. It will give you a nicer look then going around a door frame.

Answer 5

It's not easy. If you don't cut the laminate piece just right, it won't fit. It is better to use a sharp chisel with a hammer to cut the bottom of the door frame just enough to be able to fit the piece of flooring in.

Answer 6

Hello, the best way to get over this problem it to get a tenon saw or any other short-toothed saw, and cut the bottoms off the frames as tight as you can to the floor, using a small gauged chisel if necessary....you can then slip the boards underneath (this will save you the bother of scribing around the frames) . Use a filler to fill in the gaps on the frames after completing the floor.

Answer 7

You should fit the flooring as near as you can to the door frames without gluing the second to last piece. Fit this in place then make a template of the one you need to cut, from paper or better, thin card. Use this to cut your final piece.
Also remember that usually a wood filler is used to fill any ugly gaps in places where beading can't be fitted, so you don't have to be too precise.

Answer 8

I second, third or whatever, cutting the door frame rather than trying to fit around it. Cutting the door frame require one level cut to look good. Unless you a carpentry genius (which you probably aren't since you had to ask) fitting the floor to the door will look like crap.

Answer 9

I have used a saw to cut door frames and that does work well. But if I want a really good looking job I remove the baseboards and doors then install the floor. It takes more time and work but it removes the opportunity to leave the unsightly gaps.

Answer 10

There's a tool you can buy from B&Q or Homebase. I don't know what it's called.

If you think of an oblong piece of plastic, with loads of blunt nails all along it that can move in and out. It's something like that. You put it up against a shape, it takes on that shape, then you can fix it so it doesn't move, and draw that shape onto the thing you wish to cut.

Hope that's clear.

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