Installing laminate transitions at sliding doors or any door opening that is lengthy can vary from one to another.
Laminate wood floor to patio door.
Place a piece of threshold trim available at the flooring supplier next to patio doors or similar thresholds where you need to stop the laminate flooring.
Install the last row of laminate flooring stopping 1 2 inch from the bottom edge of the patio doors.
The 1 2 inch gap is for the doorway only.
Note that you will leave the standard 1 4 inch expansion gap on either side of the doors.
Trim with a 1 8 inch gap after the flooring has been laid.
There are different types of frames around sliding glass doors.
If there s a gap under your door casing and also a gap between two rooms under a door where two different installations of laminate flooring join you can install t molding to hide both gaps.
This bottom part can make it easy or hard depending on the shape of it.