The previous home owner had quarter round around the base of the bricks.
How to install laminate flooring around fireplace hearth.
Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple.
Have you thought of building up the hearth.
Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.
Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material.
One approach is undercutting the edges of the.
How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.
I attached a picture of a renovation that i m working on.
You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.
It will just give a little definition and separation of the area.
Once the custom fitted end is done you can cut the laminate piece to length if only one piece is need for the row or install subsequent pieces to complete the row.
I m going to put quarter round in the color of the flooring around the fireplace.
Sometimes the heat can be directed at the flooring you use in front of the fireplace.
The method we use is to undercut the hearth.
You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace.
How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace.
The heat a gas fireplace produces is typically directed out.
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.
We essentially offer up a piece of your flooring to the hearth lay on top of underlay if that s the method of installation being used and draw mark a line on the hearth along the top of the flooring.