Fitting Laminate Flooring Around Toilet Bowl

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Fitting laminate flooring around toilet bowl. Fitting laminate around the flange. Use your jigsaw to cut the pattern out of the laminate planks. Your templates need to be the exact same size as your planks. You could floor around it but i d recommend against it.

Your planks do not have to fit tightly against the flange. 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. 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. 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.

Laying a floor may seem impossible but that is far from the truth. Do you have a toilet pillar or another round object in the room. 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.