Installing Carpet Around A Hearth

The current carpet has an underlay but no gripper rods around the hearth the floor is concrete.

Installing carpet around a hearth.

My plan is to peel back the existing carpet tile a rectangle that is slightly larger maybe 1 2 inches than the existing cutout in the carpet. Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. Walk on new carpet with help from lowe s.

In this case a floor has to be custom fit. Use lowe s carpet installation service to get help from trusted professional independent installers in your area. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. The previous home owner had quarter round around the base of the bricks.

I can do the gripper rods and underlay myself but will get a professional carpet fitter to lay the carpet. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps. It will just give a little definition and separation of the area. 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.

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. Installing the flooring too tight to the transition molding floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects. I m going to put quarter round in the color of the flooring around the fireplace. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them.

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. Have you thought of building up the hearth. I d like to tile that area and then cut the existing carpet so that it sits flush with the new tile s edges. I attached a picture of a renovation that i m working on.

In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. When i demo d the old fireplace hearth it left a rectangle of subfloor exposed. Now i wish to lay new underlay and carpet but do i need gripper rods around the hearth and how close to the hearth do i go with the rods. Not leaving the proper expansion gap around all fixed objects could lead to.