How to Cut Engineered Wood, Laminate & LVT Around Toilets | Top Trade Tips
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In this video, Mr DIY himself, Craig Phillips shares his expert tips on how to cut different types of flooring to accommodate a toilet. In this video, we'll show you how to accurately mark out and create a template to transfer your cut points onto flooring planks and how to cut those planks to fit and reinstall to a professional finish.
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - How to use lining paper to mark up where you need to cut your flooring
3:08 - How to cut around the toilet
4:28 - How to cut around the back of the toilet
5:05 - How to seal around a toilet with a silicone sealant
5:40 - Outro
6:03 - Flooring Mountain information
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When you said “cardboard to create your template” I had such a odd transportation back to my blue Peter childhood 😂
Brilliant hahaha! Hope the video helped!
Brilliant video, very well explained… Top man, thanks for taking the time, and making this for us DIY’ers.
Much appreciated ..! 👌👍
Meat thanks, your very welcome, and were glad this kind of videos can help others, keep in touch
Have just watched several videos on how to lay the engineered wood planks for my guest toilet. Yours is really clear and is my how-to 'go-to'. Thank you so much!
Thanks great Liz I'm glad our videos have helped, thanks for your complimentary comments, please let us know how you get on with your floor
Absolutely excellent!! Very well explained and demonstrated!! 👌🏽
Thanks!
Thanks a lot, you made this so much easier.
You're welcome Mark, we're glad you found our video helpful!
That’s Awesome!! 🤩
Thank You Very Much!
No problem David, glad you enjoyed the video!
Lovely jubbly. This is exactly what I’m going to do this week, cheers 👍
Perfect! Let us know how you get on!
OMG thank you so much for this!!!
No problem!
Thank you, very helpful video.
You're welcome, we're glad you found our video helpful!
This video is awesome
Thanks mate! Much appreciated
Thanks!
No problem!
Brilliant idea...... now I can crack on with this job and save myself a load of ear ache from the Mrs !!
Hahaha brilliant, glad you found our video helpful!
mate, i scrolled down to the comments while the ad played, when you started talking i thought i was watching art attack ahaha
Hahahaha brilliant
If only I could kneel behind the toilet like him to install it much easier!
I wish all the toilets we install I could get behind them too. these sets make it easier to film around when we construct a section to do our demo's
Very well.
Think I might scribe my flooring around my washer.
Hahaha!
Nice job on the laminate cut out , but I don’t like the silicone finish, it stands out like a sore thumb, I wish there was an alternative. Our bathroom is only small I am tempted to forgo the expansion gap around the WC and have a neater finish.
There is an alternative, I do this for a living and never recommend wood/laminate in a bathroom, LVT vinyl flooring (stick down} is the only way to go.
You could use white flooring instead so it doesn’t?
Thanks, yes its a bit tricky to do. If you are confident enough you could take the toilet off the floor after disconnecting it, put your flooring down then put the toilet back on top
@@MrandMrsDIY thx, that’s exactly what I did
Hi, did toilet line up again after you fit the floor underneath it? My LVT is 8mm thick, so am wondering if I need a flexible joint at the back of the toilet due to the height difference, so it lines up again with the waste pipe?
Two screws that hold down the toilet remove and snuck the floor under a few mm
Yip could work
it will be just a little easier if you cut the paper in strips before taping it to the floor....
great video though!!
Thats right it would certainly help
Fans Craig,
Thanks!
I am installing a grey-coloured laminate flooring - Would it blend in better to use a grey silicone to finish?
It all depends on the look you are going for! We chose white to match the toilet
Remove the toilet and fit the planks underneath.
@@stevelane1956 Then that throws all the pipework for the toilet out by the thickness of the flooring, as the pan will be 8/10mm higher up.
@@neilfoster814 AND if you don't put down new sealant under the toilet you run the risk of the poopy water going under your new flooring....stinking up the place...and having to re-do it....maybe on Christmas Eve!
@@stevelane1956 ou run the risk of the poopy water going under your new flooring.
My contractor did this for me and it is hideous. I’m making him redo it. The white caulk sticks out like a sore thumb and it makes it look like it was done by a novice.
Oh dear!
Use Clear
But then if you need to change the toilet you need to cut or replace the floor under the toilet.
turn your water off, drain the system and then you can remove the toilet!
Interesting & useful, but not practical for all installations.
Also, sealing the toilet around the base can be a problem if there is a leak, the caulk will hide the problem until the damage is severe. If you have a reason that requires sealing, at least leave the back of the toilet uncaulked for overflow.
Sealing the toilet at the base I to help hold it in position better, as well as sealing it for when the floor is being mopping.
Hmm. This is not at all what I imagined the process to be. I assumed (there's that word) that the laminate would go a little way under the toilet. To be honest I don't think that looks very good with all that sealant. I may be in trouble. :)
You can do it to go under the toilet if you can take it off, but that may be a bit advanced!
Take the toilet out . 2 screws tap and pan connection . Takes less time . To much messing about with this .
You could do that absolutely, but it might be too complicated for new DIYers to do
@@MrandMrsDIY for floating floors, i thought you weren't supposed to have them under non-moving objects like cabinetry and such, which will keep them from being able to adjust. "It is best that you do not install base cabinets on top of a floating floor. This will likely result in both immediate and long-term issues. This is mainly due to the signature interlocking system of a floating floor. The weight of the cabinets will not give a floating floor any room to expand and contract. As a result, the floating floor will be totally compromised."
@@Janzer_ No it won`t!
To be honest, for most people this will be a replacement job anyway, so you can use the cut out from the old flooring as the template. Even if the toilet is built on top of it, just pencil around the toilet and cut the template out.
Why would you install the flooring AROUND the toilet? Why wouldn't you pull the toilet and install it UNDER the toilet?
Seal between toilet and floor 3/4 around it and save yourself the hassle of new seals for toilet when not needed. That's why!
@@shariram5884 if you ever have to replace the toilet you're SCREWED because you went the easy way out! Do it right; pull the toilet and install the flooring around the flange.
Because you need an expansion gap.
You absolutely could! I'm showing people how to install around it if they don't want to or if they don't know how to uninstall the toilet and mess around with plumbing
@@MrandMrsDIY true. Good point. 👍
Just use a toilet rug 😮
What about the rest of the floor
@@MrandMrsDIY don't quite understand the question!!
Who install laminate flooring in toilets
Lots of people!
You always put the flooring underneath
Some people who are DIYers won't be confident enough to take the toilet off, this is an alternative
I did it with the Woodglut plans.
Nice
Yeah, this is the wrong advice! You should never seal around the base of a toilet! If the wax ring were to fail, you would have no indication, and the water was leaking and it would seep under the flooring and you would never know
If you need to test leaking, add food colouring to a jug of water, should see if it leaks then, cheers
@MrandMrsDIY sorry but your logic makes no sense
Easy when you can stand inside the wall.....useless.
This is a demonstration. Thanks
All joints should be random, staggered and not layed like brickwork. A professional flooring installer wouldn`t lay them with joints inline.
I don't agree with you, I've fitted flooring for over 30 years and I've had many more customers wanting it fitted this way, Ether way is just a choice, some ways use more materials therefor some trades want to charge by the meter to get more money from there customers .
Mr and Mrs DIY whether you agree or not I've been installing hardwood, laminate, and Amtico floors for over 50 years and that's the way it's done!
@@stevelane1956 You do it your way, others do it their way. You aren't the boss of the rest of the world. Lose the attitude! Geeze ! ! !
yes, and there are many reasons for staggering! it's in the manufacturer's instructions of all brands I used.
Fantastic video I'm off to mitre10 thank you!!
Hahaha!