How To Finish Wood Floor Around Fireplace
Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps.
How to finish wood floor around fireplace. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. Flooring installer first suggested using a piece of. Hardwood at fireplace hearths. Use prybars to gently remove mantel from wall as shown.
It might be more work but it adds the look of craftsmanship to your floor. If the mantel is to be reused mark its outline on wall and floor. Anatomy of a fireplace click enlarge this image to see illustration labels. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to.
Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. 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. We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed.
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. Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock hearth. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth. Laminate flooring won t fit tight against most fireplaces.
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. Step 2 pry off mantel photo by brian wilder. Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. 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. This process is very similar to undercutting a door lining frame. The method we use is to undercut the hearth.