Hardwood Floors Around A Raised Fireplace

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.

Hardwood floors around a raised fireplace.

Also mark the length and width of the hearth. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. Oftentimes the fireplace and the floor may not be square to each other and the tile contractor is limited in how much he can adjust for this. Find the center of the fireplace and mark it on the subfloor.

Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock hearth. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. 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.

One of the best options for installing hardwood floors around a brick fireplace is to undercut the hearth if you have a raised hearth. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps. 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. Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.

Flooring installer first suggested using a piece of. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth. Hardwood at fireplace hearths. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

Be sure to check the placement of the fireplace relative to the wall and the floor. We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed. Undercut the hearth. There are a number of ways to do this.

It might even be best to start laying the flooring around the fireplace then working towards the rest of the room. For different size of floors in different locations there are various concepts that i might share to you.