have you laid some laminate flooring and now you're wondering how to finish it
off around those edges? Like where your laminate flooring meets tiles, or in the
doorways, maybe you've got some cut ends of your laminate flooring showing.
In this video I'm going to show you how to finish off those areas, those
little details that make it look so good, like you've paid a lot for a
professional to do it. let's get straight into it.
it there's a couple of different trims that we can use. I've used 'angle trim' in the past and I'm happy with how
it looks so this video's specifically about how to install angle trim
I suggest taking a piece of your laminate flooring into the hardware store when
it comes time to select this angle trim and that way you can try and match up
the colour or the grain, this is the closest that we've found
now these lengths of angle trim come in 3.3 mtrs, which is enough
to do one sliding door and one internal door, so first off we need to measure all our doors,
measure the opening between the door jambs
carry on around your house
measure all your doorways and measure all your end cuts of laminate flooring,
or where your flooring meets a tile trim, we also need to look at our gap here.
hopefully you'll followed your manufacturer's specifications as far as expansion and
contraction goes, we've allowed a 10mm gap for expansion and
contraction here, and just making sure we cover that gap we've selected a...
it's about 18 or 20 mm edge strip which will cover that gap nicely
there's a couple of different ways that you can cut your angle trims you can either use
a hacksaw and use a miter box too if that helps you keep your cuts nice and
square alternatively you could use an angle grinder
we've put quite a thin steel cutting disc on this one this is what we're
going to use in this application just remember to file off any burrs that are
left behind on your angle trims
just remember when you're using power tools use your safety gear as well
we'll just do a quick test fit of this trim we've cut make sure it fits and
then we'll go and apply some construction adhesive and fit it in place.
Now to glue this trim in place, we're going to be putting glue
along the back edge of the trim, we never glue it down to the floorboards
so actually this bead of glue that we're going to put along this back edge that
gets stuck down or stuck against the aluminium joinery, that way your laminate
flooring can slide with expansion and contraction uninhibited underneath this trim
So, we're using a construction adhesive, if you're using this stuff make
sure you've got some mineral turpentine or some turps and a rag on hand because
sometimes it gets a bit messy
remember we're only going to attach it to this we don't want to do any glueing
on the laminate floor because this floor needs to
expand and contract underneath the trim.
Any adhesive that I've accidentally squirted out of there I'm
gonna give that a clean-up!
now that trim is sitting really nice and flat on the floor, we can leave it like that
while the adhesive sets.. if you've got.. sometimes this happens if you've got
parts and a slightly raised or it's not quite sitting flat, you can tape it
down while the adhesive sets or put some heavy books on it. but that actually
looks really good so onto the next door
we've got this area in the hallway here
where our new laminate floor meets a tiled floor so this is the ideal place
where we'd want to use those angled edge strips. so what we need to do is
measure our doorway, we also need to check that we've got that expansion and
contraction gap, we've got 5mm here, because this space is
only about a meter wide we can expect 1.5 mm of expansion and
contraction, 5mm is more than enough. we're going to use that 20mm
angle edge strip just like we used on the sliding door, we're going to
use that construction adhesive and adhere it to this tile strip, we never
glue to the laminate floor. I've noticed however just over here our laminate
floor is too close to the tile edge strip, we're going to need to trim some
of that out
I've useless multifunction tool with a timber or or metal cutting tool on it
and we've managed to cut out about 5 or 6 mm of laminate floor and
that allows well now that's given us an expansion gap now we can put our angle
trim over the top knowing that our laminate floor can expand and contract underneath it.
Just a really fine bead of adhesive along the back edge of that
edge strip, any oopsies you just clean up with some turps and a rag
I'm gonna need to tape this one in place also cause it's just sitting a little high on the edges here
I'm really happy with how this has turned out! If you got something from this
tutorial video give it a thumbs up, I'm hoping that watching this video has
given you some skills, some knowledge, maybe the courage to realise that this
is a project that you can do at home and get professional results,
and also the pride that comes with doing it yourself. See on the next video