I am installing an engineered hardwood floor santos mahogany from br 111.
Installing hardwood around fireplace hearth.
You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.
Some gas fireplaces are built with zero clearance fireboxes meaning you can put combustible materials right up to the sides front and bottom.
The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to.
Hardwood at fireplace hearths.
There are a number of ways to do this.
Trimming a wood floor around a hearth.
One of the best options for installing hardwood floors around a brick fireplace is to undercut the hearth if you have a raised hearth.
I am floating the floor over an underlayment and a wood subfloor.
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.
Undercut the hearth.
As such they are not regulated by the same safety codes as wood burning fireplaces and each model has its own requirements.
The problem i am anticipating is how to hide the 1 2 inch expansion gap by the brick fireplace hearth and the built ins.
How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace.
Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised.
In this case a floor has to be custom fit.
Installing hardwood around a fireplace is not that 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.
Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps.
Suddenly the idea can seem complicated.
Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple.
Gas fireplaces are considered gas appliances not true fireplaces.
It might even be best to start laying the flooring around the fireplace then working towards the rest of the room.
But don t let that deter you.