Fireplace Hearth Raised Or Floor Level

My wife and i wanted to remodel the dated fireplace in our living room.

Fireplace hearth raised or floor level. Q a tile fireplace hearth fireplaces q a text. Trimming a wood floor around a hearth. The fireplace hearth wasn t exactly square so i custom cut each side. I ve since removed the raised hearth and we re putting down ceramic tile.

Natural gas propane and even electric fireplaces are often placed anywhere from 1 to 3 feet above floor level. Raised and proud of it. We recently put down hardwood floor around a raised brick hearth. Our fr now is smaller with a 10 ceiling and we can see the floor level hearth and fire from anyplace in the room.

Transitioning from hardwood to a hearth is tricky whether the hearth is level with the floor or raised. We are putting a gas fireplace into our family room and my first instinct is to have the fireplace hearth level with the floor as we have small children and the corners of a raised stone hearth just add another safety hazard in addition to having the actual fireplace to worry about. I used the factory cut edges and corners for the outside edge and left about 1 4 of space at the wall. In our previous home the fr was about 28 x 16 with a 14 ceiling height and the raised hearth raised fireplace allowed us a good view of the fire from all parts of the room even while seated.

The wood requires expansion gaps on all sides to.