[Closed] Old hearth / laminate floor - options?

Interested in the answer to this, though I don't /think/ it's an issue for me.

How much difference though? Cos you'll be presumably planning on some underlay which might take up the difference? Or could lay more on the boards to account for the difference?

Add some nice slabs/floor tiles to the top of it and make it a bit of a feature? Should be pretty cheap and easy to do yourself as it's only a small area so you could get some nice ones.

Any protrusion above the level of the rest of the floor will annoy you as you'll constantly stub your toe on it and wish you'd done it properly in the first place.

I'd just smash it up / chisel it out and use the self-levelling stuff, its not difficult but will create dust and add maybe a day to your schedule due to the drying time of the floor compound.

I have a similar project lined up in a month or so and hope that the marble hearth has just been laid on top of floorboards.

Presumably it's not an active fireplace or a potentially reinstated for the future?

honeybadgerx - Member
Add some nice slabs/floor tiles to the top of it and make it a bit of a feature? Should be pretty cheap and easy to do yourself as it's only a small area so you could get some nice ones.

Probably this is your best bet. Just in case.

I did think about making a feature of it, but it'll mostly be under a table so there doesn't seem loads of point. Plus I'll kick it on a regular basis.

Dust and mess is no problem, the house is pretty much a building site at the moment anyway. We can work the drying time into the (mostly made up as we go along) schedule too.

I'll get the chisel out.

**edit* Nope the chimney is blocked. It's a knocked through lounge, we're keeping the fire in the other half.