Floor Trim Around Hearth

An original hearth would be even with or higher than the floor.

Floor trim around hearth.

I wouldn t be very happy with the thickness of your trim or the colour as it catches the eye too much. Item 1524924 model lmqsu00603. Floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects. After the flooring is installed it will provide the best appearance possible.

With any wood type floor from solid wood laminate the way it looks around a fire hearth is massively important. Not leaving the proper expansion gap around all fixed objects could lead to buckling squeaking or end joint peaking. A place where your eyes and your visitors naturally gravitate. The hearth is often an aspect that really doesn t come into peoples minds as being important until the floor is fitted.

Floating floors will expand and contract with changes in the interior home climate. Once both cuts are made carefully chisel out the area that has been cut. In this case i would add a new hearth. Methods for using this tool calls for two cuts into the hearth.

The hearth being lower than the floor will call attention to the fact that a new floor was added. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. My fitter has used a line of black filler which looks very unnoticeable. I think a one piece slab would look good.

You have options for trimming a laminate floor where it meets a flush or raised hearth at a fireplace. A fire hearth is the focal point of any room. My hearth is a similar set up black hearth and a wood floor fitted after hearth was put in. Concrete would work with a faux finish.

Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions. One at the finished vertical height of the floor so the flooring will slide under and the other flush with the subfloor. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Smartcore 0 71 in x 94 49 in blue ridge pine plastic floor quarter round.

How to trim laminate floor around a fireplace.