Installing Carpet Around A Hearth

The current carpet has an underlay but no gripper rods around the hearth the floor is concrete.

Installing carpet around a hearth. Installing the flooring too tight to the transition molding floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects. Installing hardwood moldings around fireplace hearths has never been an attractive solution for covering up those gaps. Not leaving the proper expansion gap around all fixed objects could lead to. The previous home owner had quarter round around the base of the bricks.

I can do the gripper rods and underlay myself but will get a professional carpet fitter to lay the carpet. 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. There are a few ways to do this and i explain all of them. Have you thought of building up the hearth.

Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. It will just give a little definition and separation of the area. Now i wish to lay new underlay and carpet but do i need gripper rods around the hearth and how close to the hearth do i go with the rods. I attached a picture of a renovation that i m working on.

The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to. Floating floors will expand and contract with changes in the interior home climate. When i demo d the old fireplace hearth it left a rectangle of subfloor exposed. I d like to tile that area and then cut the existing carpet so that it sits flush with the new tile s edges.

My plan is to peel back the existing carpet tile a rectangle that is slightly larger maybe 1 2 inches than the existing cutout in the carpet. Installing a floor can be difficult if there s a fireplace in the living room. Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions. Unfortunately inexperienced installers will handle it this way either because they do not know of other solutions or don t care to handle it any other way.

In this case a floor has to be custom fit. When it comes to adding carpet to a room or replacing existing carpet installing carpet correctly the first time is top priority. In this video i will show you how to install laminate or vinyl plank up to a fireplace. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth.