How To Cut The Laminate Flooring
Sat, Jul 12, 2008
When you installing laminate flooring you always need to cut it to fit. There are many installing instructions but they always take for granted, that you know how to cut it. So if you don’t, lets find out how:
What you need: a small square to scribe a strait line, a circular saw, and probably a jig saw or small cross-cut hand saw. Cutting the pieces upside down will keep you from splintering the finised side of the flooring. If you are unfarmiliar with power tools, there are usually helpful people at your home center or hardware store.
When starting your first run of flooring make sure you leave a 1/4-1/2 along the wall for movement, buying plastic wedges in the flooring section will help hold you flooring where it needs to be. Cutting Door ways, lay your laminated flooring next to the moulding and cut the moulding back so the flooring will slip under the moulding, this gives a better look and alot less fine tuning your flooring cuts.
Dont forget to buy threshholds for the transistion from your laminated floor to unlaminated areas.
p.s. The first two rows of flooring will be the hardest to a first timer, but after that, it will be a snap.
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