All Tools You Need to Cut Vinyl Flooring: From DIY to Pro

What is vinyl flooring?

Vinyl flooring refers to the flooring produced with PVC materials. Specifically, it is produced by taking polyvinyl chloride and its copolymer resin as the main raw material, adding fillers, plasticizers, stabilizers, colorants and other auxiliary materials on sheet continuous substrate through coating process or calendering, extrusion or extrusion process

Also known as “light floor material”, it is a very popular new type of light floor decoration material in the world and widely used, such as houses, hospitals, schools, office buildings, factories, public places, supermarkets, businesses, etc.

Other name: PVC flooring, homogeneous flooring & heterogeneous vinyl flooring.

Vinyl flooring included: vinyl tile, vinyl plank, and vinyl sheet

Vinyl flooring cutting is one of the difficult thing in flooring installation.

Today we will give you ultimate guide of all tools you need to cut vinyl flooring: from DIY to Pro

 It’s an in-depth article that takes 10 minutes to read.

Navigation, click to jump to the section you want to read

All Tools You Need to Cut Vinyl Flooring: From DIY to Pro

1): DIY basic tools

For vinyl flooring installation, if you want to do it DIY, below are the tools that you need to have.

Tape measure (measure the flooring)

Pencil (mark the line)

Carpenter square (fix the flooring in cutting)

Utility knife: (cutting)

tape measure
pencil
carpenter square
Utility knife

2) More DIY tools

If you need to install SPC, WPC or thick LVP which utility knife might be difficult to cut, then you will need hand saw or laminate tile cutter.

Hand saw

Laminate tile cutter

hand saw
laminate tile cutter

3) Pro tools

If you need more cuttings during vinyl floor installation, such as a big project, then you will need electric tools as below.

Circular saw

Jigsaw

Oscillating tool

Circular saw
jigsaw
oscillating tool

4) Extra tool

There are many small tools that will help your flooring cutting easier.

Contour gauge

Paper

Paper cut will be the same function as contour gauge, but personally I think this is much better.

  1. You can find paper anywhere
  2. It is so convenient to use
  3. It is ok for bigger area cutting
  4. It is ok for shaped cutting.
contour gauge
paper cut 1
paper cut 2

5) My choices

Tape measure 

Pencil 

Carpenter square 

Utility knife

Paper

And jigsaw if necessary, I am pretty sure this will be enough for you to cut all the vinyl floorings.

All these tools can be easily buy from Amazon and Homedepot.

6) Videos on how to use these tools

How to Use Vinyl Flooring Cutting Tools?

How to Use Paper Cutting?

This article is written by Longda Flooring (www.longdaflooring.com), the largest vinyl sheet flooring manufacturer from China. 

Please contact Longda flooring for a free quote on your vinyl flooring needs. We have quick response, efficient communication, quality products, on time delivery, and competitive price.

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn

Request a Full Catalog

Contact us

Request a Quote

Request Free Sample

× Contact us by WhatsApp