Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Jun 12, 2010 10:01 am Hi Guys, This may or may not be a flooring question but I'll give it a whirl in here first! We are having timber laminates through out the house and in the formal lounge I am wanting to put in a fireplace after handover. I am wanting a hearth in front of the fire tiled out of gloss black tiles. My Question is: Can we do this over the top of the timber laminates? Or will we have to rip them up in this area? If we can put the file place in over the laminates, what we use as a base to lay the tiles? Hoping someone can help Regards Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Re: Fire Place after Handover on Laminates 2Jun 12, 2010 11:03 am you can get hearths/ we had to buy one for our fire as we have cork flooring. Either you rip up the flooring and tile that section or otherwise you need a slightly raised hearth. ( something about an air cushion between the non combustible tiling and the combustable flooring) http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/better-ho ... ed-hearth/ http://www.castironfires.com/dept.aspx?id=39 you can buy them in many of the wood fire type shops. Ours has a sloping edge to the timber edged black tiles. Some have more of a skirting edge look to them. I've seen slate, granite and tiled versions. I just realised I don't have a picture of ours and atm I don't want to take a photo as the fire and tiled area is looking rather grubby. I saw a few online when we were searching for one but now I am having no real luck locating photos to show you. Re: Fire Place after Handover on Laminates 3Jun 13, 2010 4:57 pm Your floor will be a floater, so you'll need to cut it back to your subfloor, otherwise you will build it ontop of a moving floor, that may not be able to move (expand) once you've built the fireplace, or it will move and your firplace will move with it ! Either way it's no good. The combustionable nature of your floor may be an issue to - so you'd have to build up the fireplace in an approved manor with non-combustionable materials, making it higher than otherwise required. I am building soon, with chipboard floors, with a solid overlay of timber, and am putting in a fireplace too. My fireplace will go in prior to the floor and I'll finish my solid timber overlay up to the fireplace hearth. Can't see it working any other way. The other thing that just came to mind. If you did build it on top, you may find it drying out the floor too much when it's in use, causing issues with shrinking....I am just thinking out loud now....I wouldn't do it if I were you. Re: Fire Place after Handover on Laminates 4Jun 13, 2010 8:58 pm Great thanks for your advice - I had the same thoughts as you in relation to the fire rating and the shrinking and also if we wanted to change the floors one day Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes We are tossing up between a Jarrahdale radiant wood fire (the Pioneer) and a convection wood fire (Innovator or Countryman) but cannot decide on which type of wood fire is… 0 5250 Need some advice. Living in a townhouse with one common wall, recently we have discovered that the fire separation wall is incomplete and on further investigation, support… 0 3855 Not back peddling at all. You seem to have issues with comprehension my friend. Guy fcked up, he's considering being dishonest with his bank and hiding it. It will end… 21 14252 |