How To Install Floating Floor Around Fireplace

How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.

How to install floating floor around 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. I m going to put quarter round in the color of the flooring around the fireplace. Trim these door casings with a flush cut dovetail saw if the flooring doesn t fit underneath the casings. Lastly which direction should i go with the flooring around the fireplace.

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace. You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. I attached a picture of a renovation that i m working on.

One approach is undercutting the edges of the. It will just give a little definition and separation of the area. In order to install a gas fireplace you need to install a noncombustible floor made out of masonry brick stone or concrete to protect both your subfloor and nearby walls. How to install floating floor around fireplace.

Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. Typically floors in a house are combustible or not designed to deal with a fireplace and the heat it produces. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.

Have you thought of building up the hearth.