Fitting Laminate Flooring Around Toilet Bowl

Fitting laminate around the flange.

Fitting laminate flooring around toilet bowl. You could floor around it but i d recommend against it. Use your jigsaw to cut the pattern out of the laminate planks. Laying a floor may seem impossible but that is far from the truth. I would recommend taking the toilet up and extending the flange up the quarter inch or so additional thickness that the floor will take up and then put it back down.

Do you have a toilet pillar or another round object in the room. Place each template on the appropriate plank and trace the pattern with a pencil. Start with the flooring if you re installing a new floor pedestal sink and toilet you should install the laminate flooring first so it s under the sink and toilet. References this old house.

Follow our tips for a be. Although it s possible to lay laminate flooring around a toilet or sink pedestal in practice it s difficult to make an accurate enough cut to make the transition between the flooring and fixture. Because laminate flooring floats above the sub floor on top of underlayment it will expand and contract slightly with the temperature and humidity of the room.