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Install Around Obstacles and Irregular Shapes

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Watch Out For This When Redoing Floors In an Old House

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What happens here

The installation continues across the main living areas. For areas requiring precise cuts around door frames, the presenter uses a scrap piece of the flooring as a height guide. He places the guide against the door jamb and uses an oscillating multi-tool with a carbide blade to carefully undercut the trim, allowing the new flooring to slide seamlessly underneath. For irregular shapes, such as a fireplace hearth with stone cladding, he performs a rough cut on a plank, slides it close to the obstacle, and then uses a washer and pencil to trace the exact contour of the stone onto the plank, ensuring a tight fit. The final cut for the irregular shape is made with a jigsaw.

Goal: Achieve clean and precise cuts around door frames and irregular features like fireplaces.

Tools and materials

  • Carbide Blade
  • Jigsaw Ryobi
  • Oscillating Multi-Tool Ryobi
  • Scrap Flooring Piece
  • Tape Measure
  • Washer and Pencil
  • COREtec Pro Series Vinyl Planks COREtec

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[Music] w [Music] so in situations where you need to get underneath the trim before you start hacking things up just grab a little scrap piece to be your little level and then use your oscillating tool with a nice new blade especially the carbide ones they cut the [Applause] [Music] best and now you shouldn't have any problems getting your your planks underneath your trm [Music] piece so I'm going to show you a cool trick here so when you have stone like this it's a real pain cuz you can't put trim or anything on it so as you can see I got a nice profile to match that stone so what I did here is I kind of did a rough cut slide it in there so I get a nice tight seal and then you just take a regular old washer and a pencil put that in there push the washer with the pencil the very front and Scribe like this let it follow all the Contours and then once that's done just pull it out and then use your jigsaw and make sure you cut on the outside of your line so you got a much better cleaner defined line here so you wanton to be left with a pencil [Music] Mark clean it up all the bur little pencil Mark and let's see how she fits look at that nice perfect Contour nice clean job [Music] installing

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