Avoid Hassles with This LVP Quick Tip for Door Jambs

Save time and effort on your next LVP flooring installation with this quick tip for door jambs! Avoid the hassle of cutting and fitting planks around doorways by using this simple technique for a seamless and professional-looking finish. Watch this video to learn how to make your LVP installation a breeze.

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00:00🚪 Efficiently measure and cut LVP around door jambs by accounting for wall irregularities and leaving a quarter-inch gap.
01:32⚙️ Efficiently handle door jambs when installing LVP by making precise measurements and using a typical angle for a smooth installation process.
03:05🚪 Efficient method for accurately measuring and fitting door jambs when working with pre-existing wood for installation.

[deman]

Fantastic job and amazingly easy to watch you- fun to see experts do what takes me an hour and lots of profanity to do

[ritcheymt]

Video after video, the thing I'm most impressed with is your ability to cut inside corners with a knife alone. I never thought that was possible until I watched you, sir.

[todd]

Found y’all at the right time! About to lay vinyl plank flooring in our house and this is the 3rd video I’ve watched. Appreciate the work and thanks for teaching us the tips & tricks that make our lives easier!

[PiquedFlow]

Show how you did the opposite side of the jamb please. First one is easy.

[jameseisenmann]

Of all the videos I’ve watched on how to vinyl around door jams this is the one the really helped me. Thank you!!!

[Thinkaboutit-exqw]

Thanks for the perfect explanation, everyone else just says to where to cut not how to cut

[jerridhawkins]

Thanks for sharing Ruben. Good job and good details for the dyi folks. Most people don’t know the 1/4 inch from walls. 👍

[mikewManhattan]

"Pro Knees" there's just no going back!!! I had to import mine from US to UK. Truly the best knee pads ever produced!

[trex]

You lucky dog save me a lot of time! Man you’re smart!!

[neomacchio]

You just gave me a tip that you really didn’t even highlight in this video!

You cut the baseboard where it meets the floor right at the jamb!!

That get hidden once quarter round is installed!

I always struggle with that tiny spot because if you bullnose your quarter round you gotta make sure the flooring is PERFECT where it hits the jamb.

So now, it DOESN’T have to be perfect and I can cut my flooring piece a bit Larger than needed and that allows some wiggle room.

Thank you!!

[doodledo]

I needed this info 9 months ago. Thank God for caulk!

[lestalkmorebasss]

Nice….. There’s another way to do this that produces a similar result. It’s done by scribing the obstacle using a spacer board. The technique is usually for vinyl tile installation but still works here if you cut the tongue off the spacer scrap

[StacyForest]

Thank you for doing this RIGHT! I have just watched ten professionals do this wrong. They did everything from cut the tongue off. What? In the middle of a heavy traffic door jam??? And I even saw several guys saying to glue it..again, what? Glue a floating

[Jordanwoodworking]

Great video. I was wondering about the door jams. Thanks for sharing

[cwatson]

This is exactly the way I do it as well! Very well done! I always leave a ¼ as well for expansion or ⅛ on spots I need to color match chaulk where no molding. Great video! Although I think guys like us who do it for a living want the less "DIY'er" home owners the better lol.

[jimbob]

Quicker to scribe with a small piece of extra flooring over top of the original plank you marked. Just put it in place of the scrap piece you used. Perfect spacing every time and no need for measuring

[bayallday]

When you set your "dummy board", take the board you are measuring and lay it perfectly on top of it. Take another small piece and set in on top of your measure and use it to trace the distance from the wall. Perfect cut every time. And yes, I do this for a living.

[richv]

I see all these flooring videos and don't get me wrong your awesome man so no offense to you at all but nobody does it like our company or as fast we have tricks you cannot find on youtube, yes everyone uses the dummy board and so do we but the way we do it is alot different but 10x faster and we've never once pulled a tape measure or popped a chalk line unless it's a hardwood glue down. I'm definitely gatekeeping because the more videos I see like this I got more and more happy that nobody does it like us

[nicholasoconner]

I always wanted to know how this was done. I keep seeing these instagram videos for the smart saker tool but I wondered how it was done before that tool.

[jfssparky]

I finally am trying to put vinyl down, oh my god this sucks. I know why people pay to have it done. But I will give it a try in a minute