Use a utility knife to cut halfway through your vinyl plank.
Cutting vinyl floor with concave blade or straight blade.
Wear goggles a dust mask and gloves.
A good example of this is the husky folding knife shown below.
Cutting luxury vinyl actually involves more breaking than cutting.
How to cut laminate tile.
You can use the straight blade for general cutting.
Use a pencil or chalk to mark where the line you want to separate the board.
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Luxury vinyl plank or lvp flooring is certainly the easiest flooring material to cut and may even be the easiest of all building materials to cut.
The most common tool used for cutting is the utility knife.
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Using the framing square to guide your blade begin cutting along the marked line at a 45 degree angle.
Its double edge blade delivers smooth quick perfect cuts.
You should apply a moderate amount of pressure to cut roughly halfway through your vinyl plank.
Place the tile on a stand or hold it steady with clamps.
Like board flooring tile should be shaped in straight lines using the proper safety equipment.
You use the utility knife to score the hard wear layer on the top surface of the flooring then you simply.
Don t worry about cutting all the way through the plank.
The bosch daredevil is a 10 inch saw blade for laminate flooring that is perfect for cutting laminate floors and countertops.
That s my go to vinyl knife.
Because it s relatively thin lay flat vinyl can be cut in a single pass with a straight concave or hook blade.
Designed with a curved heavy gauge high carbon steel blade it ensures cuts without burrs or jagged edges plus superior durability.
It has a 4600 spm motor and can cut wood metal and plastic.
Roberts vinyl flooring knife with curved blade is engineered for precision cutting of all types of vinyl flooring.
It comes with 3 additional blades.
Believe it or not that one little thing makes a big difference when you are tucking and cutting tight.
With square edge personna blades.
All it takes is a sharp utility knife and for most cuts a straightedge.
I used to have an old robert s that i loved because it would allow you to set the blade depth a bit shallower than these newer knives will.
These may allow you to cut grooves under doorjambs and snugly place the planks underneath.
A curve cutting blade a metal cutting blade and a general purpose blade.
Be mindful that are some thicker vinyl based may require you to cut or score the line deeper than just one time.
Use a utility knife to make long incisions instead.
Of all flooring types out there today none is as easy to cut and trim as vinyl based flooring.
