How to Cut Laminate Flooring Around Overhangs

Laying laminate flooring on your stairs can be a tricky business if your steps have an overhang. Cutting strips of laminate to cover your overhang would be time consuming and likely to result in a poor finish. Sawing the overhang off your stairs means you won't have the option to renovate your staircase at a later date. The best course of action in this scenario is to box off the area under your stairs' overhang.

Tape measure
Pen and paper
Wood
Safety goggles
Jigsaw
Vertical bubble level
Nails or glue
Hammer

Instructions

- 1
  Measure the dimensions of the area beneath the overhang of each of your stairs. As the area below each step may be different, it's important to measure each one individually. Note the height of the gap below the overhang and how far the overhang itself juts over the step below.
- 2
  Mark pieces of scrap wood to slot into either side of the area beneath the overhang of each of your stairs. This will create a frame you can use to block the area off with your laminate boards.
- 3
  Put on a pair of safety goggles and use a jigsaw to cut your wood to size.
- 4
  Slot the wood you've cut into position beneath the overhang on each of your stairs. Check wooden fills are flush with the outside edge of each overhang with a vertical bubble level.
- 5
  Nail or glue each piece of wood into place.
- 6
  Measure the riser area of each stair and use a jigsaw to cut laminate boarding to glue over the frame you've made.

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