Fitting Vinyl Flooring Under Toilet

The toilet goes in next and the vanity typically is installed last without a top sink or faucets.

Fitting vinyl flooring under toilet.

When the lvt planks are installed in a bathroom the flooring can be laid under the toilet only if the floor is separated from adjacent rooms with a doorway threshold. For wood flooring lay it from one side of the room to the other. For instance a bathroom with its fittings can be particularly difficult. Floor coverings such as vinyl then are placed on top of the subfloor.

My plumber has told me he would like the flooring in the bathroom to be laid before the toilet and basin are put in but my builder has told me the vinyl would usually be laid after they had been installed. Bathroom fitting should a vinyl floor in a bathroom be laid before the toilet and basin are installed or after. In this video i show how to cut vinyl plank flooring around a toilet vinyl plank flooring is the going thing at the moment so jump on the trend and use these. Lay the bathroom floor according to the type of flooring you re using.

Either way stop when you get to the area around the toilet drain. Fitting vinyl in difficult areas some areas of the home are trickier than others to fit 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. Start with the flooring.

But you know that laminate flooring isn t waterproof so do you install the flooring under the bathroom toilet and sink or do you cut around it. Because laminate flooring floats above the sub floor on top of underlayment it will expand and contract slightly with the temperature and humidity of the room. Otherwise the flooring should be installed around the toilet leaving a 1 8 expansion space.