Hardwood Flooring Around Stone Fireplace

Professional hardwood floor installers and cabinetmakers use a small tool to trace around rock fireplaces.

Hardwood flooring around stone fireplace.

Installing hardwood around a fireplace is not that complicated. It has a pencil on one arm. But don t let that deter you. 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.

We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth. The idea when undercutting fireplaces for laminate flooring is to cut out the bottom of the fireplace so the laminate or hardwood flooring will slide under and look as if the fireplace was built on top of the flooring.

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

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. Flooring installer first suggested using a piece of. This tool known as a scribe looks like a small protractor. Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.

Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps. The idea of installing hardwood flooring in a room with a fireplace is one that many homeowners find appealing until it s time to install the flooring around the fireplace mantel and hearth area. Hardwood at fireplace hearths.