How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace.
Installing laminate flooring around fireplace hearth.
You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.
One approach is undercutting the edges of the.
Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.
You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace.
Once the custom fitted end is done you can cut the laminate piece to length if only one piece is need for the row or install subsequent pieces to complete the row.
Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material.
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.