Your templates need to be the exact same size as your planks.
Fitting laminate flooring around toilet bowl.
Fitting laminate around the flange.
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.
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You could floor around it but i d recommend against it.
Use your jigsaw to cut the pattern out of the laminate planks.
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.
Although it s possible to lay laminate flooring around a toilet or sink pedestal in practice it s difficult to make an accurate enough cut to make the transition between the flooring and fixture.
Do you have a toilet pillar or another round object in the room.
References this old house.
Your planks do not have to fit tightly against the flange.
Place each template on the appropriate plank and trace the pattern with a pencil.