Laminate Flooring Around Stone Fireplace

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.

Laminate flooring around stone fireplace.

Suddenly the idea can seem complicated. To undercut a fireplace you will need a specialized tool. 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. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.

But don t let that deter you. Sometimes the heat can be directed at the flooring you use in front of the fireplace. The idea of installing hardwood flooring in a room with a fireplace is one that many homeowners find appealing until it s time to install the flooring around the fireplace mantel and hearth area. How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.

How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace. One approach is undercutting the edges of the. The best tool to use is a jamb saw used for undercutting door jambs. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace.

Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material. The heat a gas fireplace produces is typically directed out. Installing hardwood around a fireplace is not that complicated. In this case a floor has to be custom fit.

You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. 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.