Trimming a wood floor around a hearth.
How to finish wood floor around fireplace.
Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock hearth.
The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to.
We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed.
Use prybars to gently remove mantel from wall as shown.
In this case a floor has to be custom fit.
Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth.
Laminate flooring won t fit tight against most fireplaces.
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.
Make sure all wood framing and lath are at least 2 inches away from the firebox opening as.
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.
Anatomy of a fireplace click enlarge this image to see illustration labels.
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.
If the mantel is to be reused mark its outline on wall and floor.
Step 2 pry off mantel photo by brian wilder.
Flooring installer first suggested using a piece of.
The method we use is to undercut the hearth.
Hardwood at fireplace hearths.
There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them.
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.
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.
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.