Your templates need to be the exact same size as your planks.
Fitting laminate flooring around toilet bowl.
Fitting laminate around the flange.
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Use your jigsaw to cut the pattern out of the laminate planks.
Although it s possible to lay laminate flooring around a toilet or sink pedestal in practice it s difficult to make an accurate enough cut to make the transition between the flooring and fixture.
Place each template on the appropriate plank and trace the pattern with a pencil.
You could floor around it but i d recommend against it.
Laying a floor may seem impossible but that is far from the truth.
Against a toilet however there is no new sheet to form a seam and nothing to cover an expansion gap leaving an obvious channel in the floor around the toilet.
Start with the flooring if you re installing a new floor pedestal sink and toilet you should install the laminate flooring first so it s under the sink and toilet.
I would recommend taking the toilet up and extending the flange up the quarter inch or so additional thickness that the floor will take up and then put it back down.
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