Installing Hardwood Around Fireplace Hearth

The problem i am anticipating is how to hide the 1 2 inch expansion gap by the brick fireplace hearth and the built ins.

Installing hardwood around fireplace hearth.

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. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Gas fireplaces are considered gas appliances not true fireplaces.

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. I am installing an engineered hardwood floor santos mahogany from br 111. Installing hardwood around a fireplace is not that complicated. 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.

You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit. One of the best options for installing hardwood floors around a brick fireplace is to undercut the hearth if you have a raised 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. Please see attached pictures hopefully they come through.

Suddenly the idea can seem complicated. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps.

I am floating the floor over an underlayment and a wood subfloor. There are a number of ways to do this. Undercut the hearth. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple.

How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace. Some gas fireplaces are built with zero clearance fireboxes meaning you can put combustible materials right up to the sides front and bottom. As such they are not regulated by the same safety codes as wood burning fireplaces and each model has its own requirements.