Scribe Cut Flooring

Cutting flooring to match a curve can be painstaking and the signature of an expert floor installer is evident in transitions to curved and irregular.

Scribe cut flooring.

Roe osborn senior editor at jlc responds. If not your scribe marks will be incorrect. Cutting your scribed piece may sound like the easy part but there are some tricks that will help give you the ultimate fit. The block is simply a scrap of the flooring being installed in this case 2 1 4 inch wide oak with finger holes drilled in it for holding it during the scribe.

For more on tile consider. Scribing is a technique used when you re installing laminate flooring against an uneven wall. Most walls aren t perfectly straight but having a straight first row with a uniform expansion gap is critical when you lay flooring. Walls are rarely straight or true.

Keep moving the scribe tile to transfer the outline of the wall. How to scribe flooring to the wall. How to scribe and cut irregular shapes for a perfect fit michele m. If the shelf fits between two walls cut it about 1 2 in.

How to cut flooring around curved walls. Cut and trim along the penciled lines then set the cut tile into place for a perfect fit. Give yourself some wiggle room by cutting beside the line. Don t make your first cut directly on the line.

Too long and set it in at an angle. Even the slightest deviations along their length can become noticeable if a new floor does not match the walls imperfections. In installing strip flooring training the trades jul 18 the final photo shows a scribing block made by howard brickman a wood flooring specialist. Slide the shelf into the corner keeping the long back edge tight to the wall.

Fit a shelf to a corner that s not square. Saw along the line.