How To Install Vinyl Tile Around Door Frames

Mix tile mastic per the manufacturers instructions.

How to install vinyl tile around door frames. Using the undercut saw and a scrap piece of laminate for backing cut the door jamb and adjoining trim away. Start by prying loose the base shoe molding and thresholds or carpet strips at the doorways. Notch the corners of a tile to go around cabinets or doorjambs on a vinyl tile cutter.

Depress the blade to cut to the. Place the tile on the cutter with one of pencil marks lined up with the blade. Install casing first then cut a space.

Make sure you spread the thinset evenly on the whole surface otherwise you will have to adjust the tile to be level with the rest of the floor. Place a tile spacer between the tile and the floor and the tile and the door frame. 2 set the scribe compass to the exact distance.

This line will be your cut mark. And aluminium mould fixed to the floor with a PVC flap inserted. I polished the edges back to a close factory finish and did not stick it to the frame of the pocket door but put a bead of silicone between back of the tile and frame to give a nicer finish.

2 Set the scribe compass to the exact distance that. Tip go ahead and cut nice and tight to the scrap. This door has no architrave it has two L cuts over it.

If you dont have base shoe plan on adding it. It gives a better finished look if you cut the tile around it you have something you have to maintain. The only floor to abut the jamb is carpet in my book vinyl cork wood stone.