Engineered Wood Flooring Cutting

Solid hardwood floor covering provides a classic touch a warm feeling that is difficult to match with wood substitute materials like laminate flooring and luxury vinyl flooring.

Engineered wood flooring cutting.

Be mindful that by wood flooring in this post i am referring to cutting trimming solid hardwood engineered floating click lock and laminate based flooring systems. When you run into columns or doorways cut the planks to fit on both sides taking care to maintain the expansion gap. In the trade the term for this is rip cutting. You may make a mistake or two when trimming but that s what the 5 10 overage on the order is for see the engineered wood flooring price guide for details finishing the job.

A table saw is particularly useful for cutting the length of either solid wood or engineered floorboards accurately. And in the broadest sense using a saw blade with fine teeth rated to cut wood laminate floors will give you a better looking cut that one with less teeth as a general reference. Lay a piece of scrap flooring next to the jamb so you know how high to cut in order to remove it. A jig saw will enable you to cut custom shapes into your wood flooring planks.

Use a jamb saw or coping saw for the job. You may have to cut the first board using a circular or miter saw with a blade designed for engineered wood flooring.