Cutting Vinyl Tile Around Door Jambs

Crosscuts are short cuts across the plank.

Cutting vinyl tile around door jambs.

How to undercut and fit ceramic tiles around door casings and jambs. Score and snap is the basic technique but it must be applied in three different ways. Put a tile on the plywood subfloor. Cutting vinyl tile to fit around obstacles can be tricky.

This video demonstrates and shows you exactly how to get precise and professional results while working lvp laminate or hardwood around a door jamb. Place a scrap of backer board on top of the tile. Here s how to cut vinyl tile around door jambs and how to cut vinyl tile to fit around a toilet around a corner or other obstacles. With a couple of tricks and a fair bit of patience you can get nice results.

Use a handsaw to cut through the door jamb or casing. It s easy to end up with an unsightly gap. Set the saw flat on top of the tile and simply work it back and forth to cut the casing at the tile height. To use an undercut saw place a tile on the floor with a spacer beneath to represent the tile mortar and hold the tile against the casing.

Demonstrated by master tile setter armen tavy. If there s a gap under your door casing and also a gap between two rooms under a door where two different installations of laminate flooring join you can install t molding to hide both gaps. As an alternative you can use a multi tool oscillating tool with an undercut attachment.