Do You Put Wood Flooring Up To Fireplace

It is easier to do if it is a new install than cutting into existing flooring.

Do you put wood flooring up to fireplace.

Note this was a dedicated gas unit not something that could be converted to wood and was installed in the wall about 18 24 above the floor. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. 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. It s a nice finished basement with cream colored carpet but doesn t have much else going for it.

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. Miter the corners at 45 degrees. Tricky cut on a table saw though. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps.

Both paneling and thin wood boards work well to cover the existing fireplace. I think it would look nice as we just redid the basement bathroom with the same flooring and it came out very nice. Depending on which you choose and its variety of wood your fireplace refacing supplies can range from less than 1. Use push sticks and featherboards if you are up to trying it.

It can be at a 10 to 15 degree pitch with the high side of the pitch being next to the hearth. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. It is also low profile. If yours is a more traditional down near the floor thing or could ever be converted to wood i m sure you need a hearth.

It can get tricky if you re laying hardwood floors around a brick fireplace. Mark the underside of the board where the wires hit and put tape on top of the board to show where to make the cut image 2. 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. There s a bit more to it but that s the basic process.

Hardwood at fireplace hearths. Does anybody have any experience with this.