How To Cut Tile Around Door Jambs

Demonstrated by master tile setter armen tavy.

How to cut tile around door jambs.

This allows you to butt the tile right up to the door frame. Install casing first leaving space. Put a tile on the plywood subfloor. Use a spare tile as a guide to keep the bottom of the door casing high enough so that tile can later.

When the casing is installed it hides the cut edges of the tile. When installing tile on a wood subfloor a layer of 1 2 cement backer board needs to be installed first so the tile will adhere properly. Cutting vinyl tile to fit around obstacles can be tricky. It s easy to end up with an unsightly gap.

Vct tiles are normally cut using a special vct tile cutter but a utility knife can be used to score then snap or tear the tile when making multiple odd shaped cuts such as around door frames. This article is about how to install tile around door jamb cutting tile around door jamb is easy if you take the right measurement and you use the right tools. Begin sawing into the door jamb using the tile as a guide to keep the handsaw at the correct height. Ceramic tile is difficult to cut at odd angles while wood is much easier to cut.

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. To trim door jambs and casings for tile on a wood subfloor. Saw through the room side and inside of the door jamb up to the mark you made showing where. I m no expert i m just showing you what i did in case i.

With a couple of tricks and a fair bit of patience you can get nice results. In this video i show you how i installed some luxury vinyl plank flooring around a couple of doors.