Copeing Floor Around Stone Fireplace

It gave me the answer for my stone fireplace which is 100 years old for finishing around with crown.

Copeing floor around stone fireplace.

How to use molding around brick fireplaces for hardwood floors. In the two images below the warm brown and tan colours. Place the flooring boards against the fireplace and staple or nail them into place. The problem is how to finish the edges around the uneven stone fireplace hearth.

Whether you already have a stone fireplace stone fireplaces in your home or you re planning to have one installed you need to consider the flooring for your fireplace hearth. The fireplace has a stone hearth that is about 10 high. It s rare that you can totally ignore it and unfortunately this is one of those times when i would not recommend painting it brick you can paint not stone usually. The gap between the uneven stone edge and the wood laminate floor varies between 1 4 to almost a full inch.

The hearth of the fireplace begins with the floor of the fireplace and extends into the living area in front of the fireplace itself plus the fireplace surround. Place a 1 4 round shoe molding on top of the board against the fireplace to hide the gap. I ve had one person suggest cutting out a pattern of the stone and transfering it to the back of moulding and then stain the moulding the color of. When you have a large stone it doesn t matter what kind fireplace it will totally boss you around when it comes to decorating and choosing wall colour for your home.

I just put in a floating wood laminate floor on top of linoleum permanently stuck to concrete subfloor in a family room. In this case a floor has to be custom fit. So i can nail a nailer strip to the front on the ceiling to the beams against the stones. Hide the expansion gap.

Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. Lastly which direction should i go with the flooring around the fireplace. The stones are made to look natural and uneven which makes it difficult to place moulding around it to hid the edges of the laminate flooring. Installing a wood laminte floor and i need advice as to how to undercut the stone around the bottom of the fireplace so that the wood laminate strips will fit under the stone base.

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. By reading the last comment about drilling and fastening into the motor. On the front there are beams running up to the front.