Cutting Luxury Vinyl Plank With Jigsaw

This video is how to make custom cuts when installing luxury vinyl plank.

Cutting luxury vinyl plank with jigsaw.

You can cut and nail the trim to the wall. Use a pull bar or a tapping block if the fit is hard to reach. All it takes is a sharp utility knife and for most cuts a straightedge. Lay your base plate against the edge of your vinyl plank near the area that you intend to cut.

At medium speed for most models using a jigsaw can cut through planks sheets and tiles that are vinyl based with a fine tooth for a blade. 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. Place the plank on a surface you won t mind cutting on such as the subfloor or a piece of waste flooring with the bottom side up. The color is heirloom pine.

Measure and mark the plank on the waste side of the cut line. You use the utility knife to score the hard wear layer on the top surface of the flooring then you simply. Line the jigsaw blade up with your guiding line. They are made on planks as you complete a row and as you cut planks to stagger vinyl plank flooring.

I m using lifeproof vinyl plank from home depot. These cuts make the plank shorter. Place both hands on top of the jigsaw before pulling the trigger. You will be able to cut flooring of up to 9 16 inches thickness and 13 inches width very fast and smoothly.

For cutting holes also use a fine toothed blade in hole saw form with the diameter needed for installation. Cutting luxury vinyl actually involves more breaking than cutting. If you cannot get under the doorjambs you can use an electric handsaw to cut a small groove.