Laminate Flooring Around Fireplace Hearth

How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.

Laminate flooring around fireplace hearth.

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 heat a gas fireplace produces is typically directed out. Leave a 1 4 gap between your laminate and the tile hearth and use a transition strip that is designed for exactly this purpose. Sometimes the heat can be directed at the flooring you use in front of the fireplace.

Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. 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 wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them.

Laminate flooring won t fit tight against most fireplaces. To undercut a fireplace you will need a specialized tool. Tile hearth which is obvious to most. One approach is undercutting the edges of the.

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. It might be more work but it adds the look of craftsmanship to your floor. 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. I installed thousands of square feet of that shitty laminate flooring and this is how you do it.

The best tool to use is a jamb saw used for undercutting door jambs. Here is what the transition strip looks like. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace.