Cutting Vinyl Tile Around Door Jambs

How to undercut and fit ceramic tiles around door casings and jambs.

Cutting vinyl tile around door jambs.

Notch cuts remove small pieces to fit flooring around door jambs pipes and similar. Use a handsaw to cut through the door jamb or casing. Crosscuts are short cuts across the plank. Cutting vinyl tile to fit around obstacles can be tricky.

Remove the cut scrap of door jamb or casing. Place a scrap of backer board on top of the tile. It s easy to end up with an unsightly gap. Here s how to cut vinyl tile around door jambs and how to cut vinyl tile to fit around a toilet around a corner or other obstacles.

Score and snap is the basic technique but it must be applied in three different ways. Set the saw flat on top of the tile and simply work it back and forth to cut the casing at the tile height. To use an undercut saw place a tile on the floor with a spacer beneath to represent the tile mortar and hold the tile against the casing. Put a tile on the plywood subfloor.

With a couple of tricks and a fair bit of patience you can get nice results. Demonstrated by master tile setter armen tavy. If there s a gap under your door casing and also a gap between two rooms under a door where two different installations of laminate flooring join you can install t molding to hide both gaps.