Cutting Laminate Vinyl Planks

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Cutting laminate vinyl planks.

Place the laminate flooring board on a sturdy surface saw horse and lock it into position with several c clamps or with the help of a friend. Determine how wide the last row is. If the width is less than of a plank cut roughly of the plank in the first row. Place the plank on a surface you won t mind cutting on such as the subfloor or a piece of waste flooring with the bottom side up.

How to install vinyl plank flooring as a beginner. This should be the first cut you make. Lay your vinyl flooring flat on the floor or table. In order to get accurate cuts clamp the straight edge or a laminate flooring plank to your board making sure the blade of the jigsaw goes exactly over the cut line at both sides.

Set the first plank in place on the starting line with the cut side toward the wall maintaining the expansion gap. Score and cut the tongue off the first row of vinyl planks using a utility knife. Cutting luxury vinyl actually involves more breaking than cutting. If you re cutting your vinyl flooring on the floor put an extra piece of flooring underneath the section that you re cutting so that you don t ruin the floor underneath.

Vinyl tile cutting boards will also cut laminate tile material since vinyl and laminate are similar. If it s on a table use clamps to secure it to the table. The blade on the tool is essentially a large razor blade installed on a board that has a. Measure and mark the plank on the waste side of the cut line.

These cuts make the plank shorter. Determine the width of the last row of vinyl plank flooring. Luxury vinyl plank or lvp flooring is certainly the easiest flooring material to cut and may even be the easiest of all building materials to cut. They are made on planks as you complete a row and as you cut planks to stagger vinyl plank flooring.

All it takes is a sharp utility knife and for most cuts a straightedge.