Scribe Cut Flooring

Check the initial fit and re mark for a final cut.

Scribe cut flooring. Cutting your scribed piece may sound like the easy part but there are some tricks that will help give you the ultimate fit. Fit a shelf to a corner that s not square. Cut and trim along the penciled lines then set the cut tile into place for a perfect fit. Slide the shelf into the corner keeping the long back edge tight to the wall.

How to scribe and cut irregular shapes for a perfect fit michele m. Walls are rarely straight or true. Saw along the line. If not your scribe marks will be incorrect.

Give yourself some wiggle room by cutting beside the line. Roe osborn senior editor at jlc responds. Run a pencil along the wall to scribe the line. 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. 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. How to scribe flooring to the wall. Scribing is a technique used when you re installing laminate flooring against an uneven wall.

Too long and set it in at an angle. Keep moving the scribe tile to transfer the outline of the wall. 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. Don t make your first cut directly on the line.

Most walls aren t perfectly straight but having a straight first row with a uniform expansion gap is critical when you lay flooring. Repeat the process on the opposite end of the shelf.