Install Laminate Floor Door Threshold

In fact laminate flooring can be installed in almost every room in your home including kitchens since it doesn t have to be glued down and doesn t involve grout or mortar.

Install laminate floor door threshold. But when the last few floorboards of your laminate floor need to be laid under the door jambs or through the door lining or door frame it seems impossible to get them in without. Measure and mark threshold flooring pieces. Nail the threshold to the floor with flooring nails. Installing a floating floor to a flush transition molding can potentially lead to buckling end joint peaking and squeaks later on.

Trim with a 1 8 inch gap after the flooring has been laid. Place a piece of threshold trim available at the flooring supplier next to patio doors or similar thresholds where you need to stop the laminate flooring. To install a wood threshold onto wood or carpeted floors. Pre drill pilot holes into the threshold.

Over lap moldings are designed to transition to other floors while still providing an expansion gap so the flooring can have freedom to expand and contact with indoor climate changes. Once you trim the door jamb to the proper clearance you ll want to measure and mark the piece or pieces of laminate going through the threshold. Position the threshold underneath the doorstops. Alternatively countersink the threshold and fasten it with countersunk wood screws.

The threshold plate to laminate floor transition point is still visible when someone stands or crosses through a doorway and you need to keep cuts as straight as possible for a clean finish. Measure the lip of the threshold s trim and leave enough clearance between the door and the flooring to install the threshold. Planks can be cut with a hand saw circular saw or flooring cutter and most laminate flooring comes in planks that simply snap together with a tongue. 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 your flooring runs parallel with the door you ll likely have only one piece of laminate to trim. Lay the laminate flooring in the doorway or along the carpeting keeping the edge of the flooring at least 3 8 inch inside the edge of the threshold or transition strip and the same distance.