How To Install Laminate Flooring Around Water Heater

I understand the minimum clearance dimensions section from a fire hazard viewpoint but those dimensions don t really say anything about the actual floor that the water heater can sit on.

How to install laminate flooring around water heater.

At any obstruction measure back toward the wall from your line. Otherwise you can install the laminate under the heater cutting the pieces according to the wall. Reinstall hot water heater. Chalk a line at the room edge of your first row for example if your boards are 7 wide your line would be 7 width of spacer from the wall.

Pry them into position with a laminate flooring pull bar. What s confusing me the the floor combustible wording. Use the manufacturer s recommended type of glue and slot the pieces together. Install floating laminate floor leaving a gap around the edges.

I m just trying to decide how close i can go to the water heater with the laminate flooring. Step 2 install your laminate flooring as normal as close to the baseboard heater as you can without needing to make a cut. Read episode article to find out more. Put shoe mold back down around the edges of the floor.

Pamela1334 new member googled in how to lay laminate wood flooring under hot water baseboard heater. Take the tape measure and measure out from the edge of your last full piece of laminate over to the baseboard heater. Put the water heater back down into the emergency pan. Slide the boards in the last course under the heaters and into the gap between the second last course and the wall.

The water pipes vent pipe and hook up must be properly removed from the water heater. The most difficult task involved with installing tile under a water heater is removing it from the area. Lift the heater and lay your new floor underneath it. Reinstall washer and dryer.

Put an emergency pan under the water heater. Use a few strips of. Place underlayment pad on top of vinyl flooring. Tap the cut piece against the preceding row with the rubber mallet as well as against the adjacent piece in the row you cut down to fit.

If it measures less than 7 calculate how much needs to be cut from your piece remembering to subtract the width of the spacer. Cut the power to the water heater and drain it w a garden hose. Discussion in laminate flooring q a started by pamela1334 aug 21 2015. Install threshold in doorway.