How To Install Laminate Floor Around Rock Fireplace
If you ve ever wondered how to get your laminate flooring to butt up against your irregularly shaped fireplace this is how i did it.
How to install laminate floor around rock fireplace. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit. When it comes to installing laminate flooring against a zero clearance fireplace how should it be finshed along the bottom of the fireplace. I cannot run baseboard along the bottom edge of the fireplace and i think quater round would look kind of funny between the rock on either side of the fireplace rock will be installed beside and above the fireplace. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple.
You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material. 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. In this case a floor has to be custom fit.
How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace. One approach is undercutting the edges of the. 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.