How To Lay Laminate Wood Flooring Around A Fireplace

Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material.

How to lay laminate wood flooring around a fireplace. 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. Main hack for laminate around fireplace. When installing new hardwood or laminate flooring there are different areas where you cannot use quarter round or shoe molding to cover the expansion gap. There is no need to scribe laminate or hardwood but rather have the flooring slide under substrate so that the finish is perfect without gapping.

This will fill space yet still allow the floor to expand and contract. In this video i am showing how to install laminate flooring for the first time. You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.

Lay cork around the fireplace base to install the flooring around a curved fireplace hearth lay a strip of cork around the perimeter of the brick base of the fireplace. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.