Laminate Flooring Exterior Door Threshold

To cut a metal threshold use tin snips and a saw equipped with a metal cutting blade to make the cuts.

Laminate flooring exterior door threshold. Dislodge the threshold pieces with a pry bar. Begin by removing the existing threshold from your door. I m installing laminate flooring in my house and just got to my front door and realized the threshold won t have molding on it. How is this normally handled.

However doors create open termination points where the laminate needs a transition point. Door thresholds are placed at the bottom of a door entrance or door sill and provide a functional and aesthetically pleasing transition from one room to the next. This causes a pinch point that can potentially lead to gapping buckling or end joint peaking. We offer solid timber door thresholds in different materials and colours to match all our one stop engineered and solid wood flooring.

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. Cut the old threshold with a back saw or a reciprocating saw. Measure and mark threshold flooring pieces. Threshold plates are one way of spanning the gap and making the transition in a doorway.

If your flooring runs parallel with the door you ll likely have only one piece of laminate to trim. The transition pieces are only for interior doorways. If a laminate floor is not finished correctly the expansion gap may be compromised or the seal of the floor may be gapped allowing the floor to buckle or warp and voiding the. When you re installing a laminate floor finishing the floor to other areas such as adjoining rooms and outside doors is a vital part of the installation process.

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.