Laminate Through Doorways

Steps for laying laminate flooring through a doorway.

Laminate through doorways. Laying laminate through doorways where two rooms meet getting them neat around the door jambs. Whether you re rejuvenating your floors in one room or your entire house installing laminate flooring around exterior and interior doorways requires a few extra steps. This way you do not see the carpet from the laminate side and you don t see the laminate from carpet side. Running the flooring through a doorway.

The first thing you ll need to do is to make sure that there is enough clearance under the door. Laying down laminate for hallway to bedroom transition. At this stage i am going to describe you all the necessary steps that you need to undertake in order to lay your laminate flooring going through a doorway. In a best case scenario you simply run the laminate flooring straight through the doorway and avoid the transition altogether.

To do that place a plank in. 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. If you re planning to install laminate flooring in your home you ll inevitably need to deal with doorways. Measure the doorway and cut a piece of laminate end molding to fit using a miter saw and box to get an exact cut.

When installing laminate in hallways it is a good idea to mark all the doorways before you start the installation. Step 3 squeeze a quarter inch bead of 100 percent mildew resistant silicone sealant along the bottom edge of the end molding and a second quarter inch bead of silicone along the flat side of the molding. When laying laminate flooring board direction is more of an aesthetic issue and less a structural one as it can be when laying a hardwood. As a rule you want the laminate transition to be directly under the door when the door is closed.