Laminate Flooring Around Gas Fireplace

You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace.

Laminate flooring around gas fireplace.

Place a scrap section of hardwood flooring and a piece of the underlayment you will be using on the subfloor flush against the fireplace where it meets the floor. The heat a gas fireplace produces is typically directed out. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room.

Hi peeps i have removed a gas fire and brick hearth from my fireplace and will be installing a modern all in one style one. I m not sure whether i should lay the laminate wood flooring first and go all the way up to the wall then sit the new fireplace etc on top or fit the fireplace first and cut the flooring up to it leaving the need for nasty edge trimming. Trimming laminate should start at the fireplace with a custom cut that follows the contours of the fireplace stone or other material. Sometimes the heat can be directed at the flooring you use in front of the fireplace.

If you have a plastic based flooring like a laminate material or another type of flooring that could melt or crack under constant heat consider using a hearth rug. 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. That s because limited exposure to a flame won t harm a plank. I cannot run baseboard along the bottom edge of the fireplace and i think quater round would look kind of funny between the rock on either side of the fireplace rock will be installed beside and above the fireplace on either side of the fireplace the 1 4 inch gap between the wall and the laminate flooring will be hidden by the rock.

How to trim laminate floor around 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. You should also leave at least two feet between your fireplace and the laminate floor that s usually the size of a hearth.