How To Trim Around Hearth When Floor Is Uneven

I think a one piece slab would look good.

How to trim around hearth when floor is uneven.

Any wood floor needs an expansion gap space to allow the floor to breath during seasonal climate changes. Hard maple floor right close to slate hearth. Concrete would work with a faux finish. We just had solid 3 4 inch maple flooring installed.

Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. Wood shrinks in winter but it is minimal. The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. Floors creak more in dry winter.

How to scribe around stone fireplace using stilco precision tool in a short period of time full efficiency and speeds up the work process. With this in mind we can t simply butt the wood floor straight up against the hearth although that particular look will always be. In this case i would add a new hearth. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them.

Scribing is one of the key techniques for installing cabinets countertops and built in woodwork. An original hearth would be even with or higher than the floor. Learn how to perfectly transfer odd shapes and wavy walls to your work piece creating a perfect fit every time. Scribing is a simple technique that lets you fit cabinets countertops moldings and.

Flooring installer first suggested using a piece of. We re presently trying some quarter round molding also red oak but somehow it just doesn t look right around the hearth. The hearth being lower than the floor will call attention to the fact that a new floor was added. Trying to solve the problem of how to finish the edge where the straight wood flooring meets the very irregular stone hearth.

In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. I would greatly appreciate any other suggestions or ideas as to how this juncture could be given a finished or trimmed. New red oak flooring was not laid completely flush with brick hearth 1 brick deep so there are slight uneven gaps and something needs to cover these. Our home has a large natural rock fireplace with raised rock hearth.

Frame around the fireplace. It can be at a 10 to 15 degree pitch with the high side of the pitch being next to the hearth. What choices do we have to finish the floor around a hearth. An alternate method is to place trim such as an end cap carpet reducer universal edge or square nose against the fireplace and run the flooring against the trim.