Do You Put Wood Flooring Up To Fireplace

There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them.

Do you put wood flooring up to fireplace.

It s a nice finished basement with cream colored carpet but doesn t have much else going for it. I m wondering if i can put wood vinyl plank in front of the fireplace 4 x6 area. 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. I think it would look nice as we just redid the basement bathroom with the same flooring and it came out very nice.

Tricky cut on a table saw though. 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. It can be at a 10 to 15 degree pitch with the high side of the pitch being next to the hearth. 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.

It is also low profile. Carpet right up to the wall under the fireplace. Both paneling and thin wood boards work well to cover the existing fireplace. Miter the corners at 45 degrees.

Use push sticks and featherboards if you are up to trying it. 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. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. Does anybody have any experience with this.

It is easier to do if it is a new install than cutting into existing flooring. Depending on which you choose and its variety of wood your fireplace refacing supplies can range from less than 1. 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. It can get tricky if you re laying hardwood floors around a brick fireplace.

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. Hardwood at fireplace hearths.