Your templates need to be the exact same size as your planks.
Fitting laminate flooring around toilet bowl.
Laying a floor may seem impossible but that is far from the truth.
I would recommend taking the toilet up and extending the flange up the quarter inch or so additional thickness that the floor will take up and then put it back down.
You could floor around it but i d recommend against it.
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Place each template on the appropriate plank and trace the pattern with a pencil.
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Do you have a toilet pillar or another round object in the room.
Against a toilet however there is no new sheet to form a seam and nothing to cover an expansion gap leaving an obvious channel in the floor around the toilet.
Use your jigsaw to cut the pattern out of the laminate planks.
Because laminate flooring floats above the sub floor on top of underlayment it will expand and contract slightly with the temperature and humidity of the room.
Your planks do not have to fit tightly against the flange.