How To Finish Wood Floor Around Fireplace

Unfortunately inexperienced installers will handle it this way either because they do not know of other solutions or don t care to handle it any other way.

How to finish wood floor around fireplace.

The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. Laminate flooring won t fit tight against most fireplaces. It might be more work but it adds the look of craftsmanship to your floor. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth.

Hardwood at fireplace hearths. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. The best method to finish a wood floor at an in situ fire hearth is largely not for the faint hearted but it is for those that require the neatest detailed looking finish. Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock hearth.

Anatomy of a fireplace click enlarge this image to see illustration labels. Step 2 pry off mantel photo by brian wilder. Make sure all wood framing and lath are at least 2 inches away from the firebox opening as. This process is very similar to undercutting a door lining frame.

If the mantel is to be reused mark its outline on wall and floor. Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them.

We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed. Right next to a fireplace there could be some in floor heating wires that stick up from the subfloor and a curved hearth of the fireplace to contend with image 1. Some carpenters use a special saw to undercut the rock so the flooring fits under it but nothing looks better than trimmed flooring cut to fit. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth.

Place a scrap section of hardwood flooring and a piece of the underlayment you will be using on the subfloor flush against the fireplace where it meets the floor. Use prybars to gently remove mantel from wall as shown. In this case a floor has to be custom fit.