How To Finish Wood Floor Around Fireplace

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.

How to finish wood floor around fireplace.

Use prybars to gently remove mantel from wall as shown. 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. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Flooring installer first suggested using a piece of.

It might be more work but it adds the look of craftsmanship to your floor. This process is very similar to undercutting a door lining frame. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to.

Laminate flooring won t fit tight against most fireplaces. 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. Anatomy of a fireplace click enlarge this image to see illustration labels. If the mantel is to be reused mark its outline on wall and floor.

Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock 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. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace.

There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. Hardwood at fireplace hearths. We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth.

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. 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. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth.