Cutting laminate in-situ.

You can get, from lamiinate floor suppliers, jointing strips in various guises, carpet to laminate, laminate to laminate, laminate to lino, etc. They come in colours to match the flooring, but in your case you would have to decide which to match! If you are going to use one of these strips then the cut doesn't have to be that good as there is quite a big 'overhang' on the laminate surface. If I was doing it I would try to avoid snapping it as this may damage the flooring you wish to leave down. If the floor is a 'clic' type can you not lift it, cut to suit and relay the piece? Otherwise I think it would have to be a carefull pproach with a suitable tool, tenon saw, stanley knife, etc. (you decide). If possble put a straight edge on the florr to use as a guide and also act as protection for the floor to be left down.

HTH

John

P.S. To see a jointing strip go to

The problem you have to wach is...when traffic is going from room to room because of the membrane underneath you get flexing at both ends of the cut and whatever you use will have to be screwed down.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

I know you don't have a router but I expect you could hire one and this is how I managed to join my two floors together. Forget about scoring and snapping, you'll have to score almost all the way through and even then it'll leave a very ragged edge. Use a router like I did with a straight cutting bit and run it against a straight-edge. You could always try a circular saw with a fine blade run against a straight-edge but you might find that it chips the surface. Use a good quality double sided tape to fix the straight-edge in position, you'll want it fixed along its entire length or it's likely to flex, you should get good adhesion to the laminate anyway, you don't want it to move once you start. Both options will probably require a manual cut at either end to finish. Next you want to join the new to the old, I used a biscuit joiner to do the business although setting the height was a bit of a fiddle to get right. Real chuffed with the outcome and the floor is level with no thresholds or any other protrusions to marr the effect.

Grumble

I don't care how good you are (or think you are) you cannot use a biscuit joiner to join laminate flooring! The stuff is only 7 or 8mm thick and a biscuit is at least 3 to 4mm thick and that is without it swelling with the glue!! If it CAN be done I would be willing to pay good money to see it (after it has been done a while of course)!

John

You could also use a biscuit joiner and run it along a straightedge to cut the laminate. Set the depth properly, and move the jointer so that the blade doesn't pull the machine into the material.

Thomas Prufer