New flooring hits the door and won't clear
Adding thick layers like screed, underlay, and laminate raises the floor height so it blocks the bottom of swinging doors and fails to slide neatly underneath door frames. This leaves homeowners stuck trying to figure out how to trim the door down or get the planks to fit past the frame without leaving gaps.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Searching for a retrofit low-profile threshold or threshold extension
- 2Modifying or replacing the existing threshold while maintaining a watertight seal
- 3Using a multitool on top of a scrap piece of LVP to trim the bottom of the door frame so the flooring can fit underneath
- 4Trying an angled contour cut with the frame under the trim
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The problem is that the finished floor (screed + underlay + laminate) will be higher than the clearance underneath the opening door, so the door will hit the finished floor.”source ↗
“how do I get it under the door frame there? Can I just slide a tiny rectangle of LVP underneath?”source ↗
“The problem is I’m lining it up with the baseboard so I don’t get coverage under the door frame”source ↗
Where this came up
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