Installing Hardwood Around Fireplace Hearth

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.

Installing hardwood around fireplace hearth.

Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Hardwood at fireplace hearths.

Some gas fireplaces are built with zero clearance fireboxes meaning you can put combustible materials right up to the sides front and bottom. I am installing an engineered hardwood floor santos mahogany from br 111. 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. One of the best options for installing hardwood floors around a brick fireplace is to undercut the hearth if you have a raised hearth.

Suddenly the idea can seem complicated. As such they are not regulated by the same safety codes as wood burning fireplaces and each model has its own requirements. It might even be best to start laying the flooring around the fireplace then working towards the rest of the room. Installing hardwood around a fireplace is not that complicated.

Please see attached pictures hopefully they come through. 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. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. There are a number of ways to do this.

I am floating the floor over an underlayment and a wood subfloor. Undercut the hearth. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to.

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.