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.

How to install laminate flooring video. Install floating laminate floor leaving a gap around the edges. Install threshold in doorway. Put the water heater back down into the emergency pan.

Discussion in laminate flooring q a started by pamela1334 aug 21 2015. Put an emergency pan under the water heater. Use a few strips of. Otherwise you can install the laminate under the heater cutting the pieces according to the wall.

Cut the power to the water heater and drain it w a garden hose. Use the manufacturer s recommended type of glue and slot the pieces together. Read episode article to find out more. Pry them into position with a laminate flooring pull bar.

Slide the boards in the last course under the heaters and into the gap between the second last course and the wall. Take the tape measure and measure out from the edge of your last full piece of laminate over to the baseboard heater. 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.

Lift the heater and lay your new floor underneath it. 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. Slide the cut piece of laminate into place. Reinstall washer and dryer.

Place underlayment pad on top of vinyl flooring. Step 2 install your laminate flooring as normal as close to the baseboard heater as you can without needing to make a cut. I m just trying to decide how close i can go to the water heater with the laminate flooring. The most difficult task involved with installing tile under a water heater is removing it from the area.

If it measures less than 7 calculate how much needs to be cut from your piece remembering to subtract the width of the spacer. The water pipes vent pipe and hook up must be properly removed from the water heater. What s confusing me the the floor combustible wording. At any obstruction measure back toward the wall from your line.