Sometimes the heat can be directed at the flooring you use in front of the fireplace.
How to install laminate flooring around fireplace hearth.
If you have a plastic based flooring like a laminate material or another type of flooring that could melt or crack under constant heat consider using a hearth rug.
Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple.
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.
You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.
Have you thought of building up the hearth.
The method we use is to undercut the hearth.
You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace.
How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace.
The heat a gas fireplace produces is typically directed out.
One approach is undercutting the edges of the.
We essentially offer up a piece of your flooring to the hearth lay on top of underlay if that s the method of installation being used and draw mark a line on the hearth along the top of the flooring.
It will just give a little definition and separation of the area.
In this case a floor has to be custom fit.
Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.
I m going to put quarter round in the color of the flooring around the fireplace.
This process is very similar to undercutting a door lining frame.
I attached a picture of a renovation that i m working on.
The previous home owner had quarter round around the base of the bricks.