How To Finish Wood Floor Around Fireplace

Hardwood at fireplace hearths.

How to finish wood floor around fireplace.

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. We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed. If the mantel is to be reused mark its outline on wall and floor. The method we use is to undercut the hearth.

Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock hearth. This process is very similar to undercutting a door lining frame. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. 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. 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. Anatomy of a fireplace click enlarge this image to see illustration labels.

Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Use prybars to gently remove mantel from wall as shown. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to.

Laminate flooring won t fit tight against most fireplaces. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth. 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. It might be more work but it adds the look of craftsmanship to your floor.

In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. Make sure all wood framing and lath are at least 2 inches away from the firebox opening as. 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.