Do You Put Wood Flooring Up To Fireplace

Does anybody have any experience with this.

Do you put wood flooring up to fireplace.

If yours is a more traditional down near the floor thing or could ever be converted to wood i m sure you need a hearth. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. Tricky cut on a table saw though. Use push sticks and featherboards if you are up to trying it.

It can be at a 10 to 15 degree pitch with the high side of the pitch being next to the hearth. It s a nice finished basement with cream colored carpet but doesn t have much else going for it. Depending on which you choose and its variety of wood your fireplace refacing supplies can range from less than 1. Place a scrap section of hardwood flooring and a piece of the underlayment you will be using on the subfloor flush against the fireplace where it meets the floor.

The boards go over the subfloor you put the groove and tongue ends together tap them together and nail the boards to the floor. Unfortunately inexperienced installers will handle it this way either because they do not know of other solutions or don t care to handle it any other way. Both paneling and thin wood boards work well to cover the existing fireplace. It is also low profile.

It is easier to do if it is a new install than cutting into existing flooring. Mark the underside of the board where the wires hit and put tape on top of the board to show where to make the cut image 2. It can get tricky if you re laying hardwood floors around a brick fireplace. There s a bit more to it but that s the basic process.

In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. Miter the corners at 45 degrees. I think it would look nice as we just redid the basement bathroom with the same flooring and it came out very nice. Hardwood at fireplace hearths.

Note this was a dedicated gas unit not something that could be converted to wood and was installed in the wall about 18 24 above the floor. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps.