How To Install Laminate Floor Around Rock Fireplace

You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace.

How to install laminate floor around rock fireplace.

When it comes to installing laminate flooring against a zero clearance fireplace how should it be finshed along the bottom of the fireplace. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple. I cannot run baseboard along the bottom edge of the fireplace and i think quater round would look kind of funny between the rock on either side of the fireplace rock will be installed beside and above the fireplace. 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. If you ve ever wondered how to get your laminate flooring to butt up against your irregularly shaped fireplace this is how i did it. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit. How to install hardwood flooring around a 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. Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material. When installing new hardwood or laminate flooring there are different areas where you cannot use quarter round or shoe molding to cover the expansion gap.