Laminate Flooring Around Fireplace Hearth

How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.

Laminate flooring around fireplace hearth.

You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. One approach is undercutting the edges of the. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth.

To undercut a fireplace you will need a specialized tool. I installed thousands of square feet of that shitty laminate flooring and this is how you do it. Leave a 1 4 gap between your laminate and the tile hearth and use a transition strip that is designed for exactly this purpose. Laminate flooring won t fit tight against most fireplaces.

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. 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.

The idea when undercutting fireplaces for laminate flooring is to cut out the bottom of the fireplace so the laminate or hardwood flooring will slide under and look as if the fireplace was built on top of the flooring. It might be more work but it adds the look of craftsmanship to your floor. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. 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.

Tile hearth which is obvious to most. If you have a plastic based flooring like a laminate material or another type of flooring that could melt or crack under constant heat consider using a hearth rug. The heat a gas fireplace produces is typically directed out. In this case a floor has to be custom fit.