How To Plunge Cut Stone Hearth For Hardwood Floors

Methods for using this tool calls for two cuts into the hearth.

How to plunge cut stone hearth for hardwood floors.

In order to do this you ll need an undercut saw with a diamond tipped blade. How to install hardwood flooring around a fireplace. Flooring installer first suggested using a piece of. Since most people don t have undercut saws you ll probably have to rent one.

The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. One of the best options for installing hardwood floors around a brick fireplace is to undercut the hearth if you have a raised hearth. Take a piece of flooring and lay it on the floor next to the hearth where you want to start cutting from left to right.

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. After the flooring is installed it will provide the best appearance possible. Mark the underside of the board where the wires hit and put tape on top of the board to show where to make the cut image 2. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit.

Measure cut and lay the proper type of underlayment material recommended by the hardwood flooring manufacturer on top of the subfloor. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple. Step 3 cut a 1 inch strip of cork with a utility knife and glue it with contact cement onto the subfloor around the perimeter of the fireplace hearth. Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock hearth.

In this case a floor has to be custom fit. We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed. A diamond blade will burn you but you have to really do something to cut your finger off with it. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth.

Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. One at the finished vertical height of the floor so the flooring will slide under and the other flush with the subfloor.