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How to install hearth and flooring?

4 months ago

How to build a hearth flush with flooring? Going to put in vinyl planks, does the hearth go in first or the flooring. If the firebox is about 5-6" off the floor do I need a extended hearth? Or can flooring go right up to the wall? How to transition from tile hearth the flooring?

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Seabornman
4 months ago
What kind of fireplace? There are different rules about proximity of combustibles. If this is a manufactured fireplace, there should be written instructions for the hearth location. If not, I think I would raise the hearth and let the flooring die into it. Depending on flooring type, there may need to be an expansion gap around the hearth. You may be able to minimize that by having a recess in the hearth at floor level.
Seabornman
4 months ago
What kind of fireplace? There are different rules about proximity of combustibles. If this is a manufactured fireplace, there should be written instructions for the hearth location. If not, I think I would raise the hearth and let the flooring die into it. Depending on flooring type, there may need to be an expansion gap around the hearth. You may be able to minimize that by having a recess in the hearth at floor level.
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Yes, there doesn't appear to be room for the window trim. I'm looking at the floorboards--where the fireplace framing ends and extending the floorboard line up the wall. When you add backerboard and thin bricks, looks like the trim is going to get buried behind. Photos can be deceiving and it may 'just fit'. But I am afraid that end wall is going to look over-stuffed. Nice view outside; I can understand wanting to hang onto the windows but the problem is having three focal points on that wall and the space issue of too big fireplace or too big windows.
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