How To Install Bamboo Flooring Around Fire Place

Cheaper brands of bamboo flooring may contain glues the emit harmful vocs look for products that are guaranteed to emit no or very low amounts of vocs and that have been certified as sustainably harvested by the forest stewardship council fsc.

How to install bamboo flooring around fire place.

Place the bamboo flooring along the most prominent wall. Put on protective eyewear. This will create an uneven floor. This border should be at least 18 wide all the way around the heat source.

In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. Prepare your subfloor first by ensuring it is flat level dry and clean. Quality bamboo flooring costs 5 to 8 per square foot which is about the same as common hardwood flooring like oak and maple. The cork will camouflage the expansion gap that you will need at the edges of the hardwood floorboards.

Take measurements of the area where the new flooring will be installed. Length wise meaning that the the widest front part of the fireplace should have the boards going parallel with it. Do not overlap pads. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them.

If you have a wood stove or fireplace and wish to install consider a different type of border or apron around the heat source that will protect your bamboo flooring from direct exposure to that heat. This will fill space yet still allow the floor to expand and contract. Appropriate borders for use with your bamboo flooring include tile and stone. Installing parquet block bamboo flooring.

If it is wood sand and or plane any high areas and also fill any low areas. Measure the front of hearth and add two times the width of the flooring board. Lastly which direction should i go with the flooring around the fireplace. You must glue your parquet block bamboo flooring down to your subfloor.

Cut a 1 inch strip of cork with a utility knife and glue it with contact cement onto the subfloor around the perimeter of the fireplace hearth. If the fireplace has a hearth or a slab in front then framing the space in front of the fireplace is the way to go. Before laying down your new flooring install the underlay pad.