Installing Hardwood Around Fireplace Hearth

Installing hardwood around a fireplace is not that complicated.

Installing hardwood around fireplace hearth.

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple. There are a number of ways to do this. One of the best options for installing hardwood floors around a brick fireplace is to undercut the hearth if you have a raised hearth.

Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. I am installing an engineered hardwood floor santos mahogany from br 111. As such they are not regulated by the same safety codes as wood burning fireplaces and each model has its own requirements. Undercut the hearth.

In this case a floor has to be custom fit. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. I am floating the floor over an underlayment and a wood subfloor. It might even be best to start laying the flooring around the fireplace then working towards the rest of the room.

Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps. 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. But don t let that deter you.

Suddenly the idea can seem complicated. 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. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Gas fireplaces are considered gas appliances not true fireplaces.

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. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.