How To Install Laminate Floor Around Rock Fireplace

How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.

How to install laminate floor around rock fireplace.

You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. When it comes to installing laminate flooring against a zero clearance fireplace how should it be finshed along the bottom of the fireplace. One approach is undercutting the edges of the. In this case a floor has to be custom fit.

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. When installing new hardwood or laminate flooring there are different areas where you cannot use quarter round or shoe molding to cover the expansion gap. Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material. Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.

If you ve ever wondered how to get your laminate flooring to butt up against your irregularly shaped fireplace this is how i did it. I cannot run baseboard along the bottom edge of the fireplace and i think quater round would look kind of funny between the rock on either side of the fireplace rock will be installed beside and above the fireplace. Once the custom fitted end is done you can cut the laminate piece to length if only one piece is need for the row or install subsequent pieces to complete the row.