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Beading a Curved Fireplace

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  • 09-10-2006 10:07am
    #1
    Be The Holy
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    Put down laminate flooring but have a curved fireplace, need to put some beading around it. Tried the typical solution with a long stretch of beading but wont stay in place, any alternative solutions appreciated?


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    galwaydude18
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    Use no more nails to stick it down! it has tremondous holding power! it's like concrete when its set!


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    CJhaughey
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    Cut slots in the back of the beading with a saw, to allow the beading to curve


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    galwaydude18
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    not going to be that nice looking and it would depend on the design of the beading also. Another thing you could try is to put the beading into a bath of hot water for half and hour and that will soften the fibers of the wood and allow you to bend it a lot easier (provided its real wood and not mdf)


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    Be The Holy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭Be The Holy


    Cheers for that lads. Have any of ye ever heard of "flat beading" and where would you get in dublin? If you stick it down with the no more nails stuff, can you take it back up or will it leave a mark? Afraid that it will look terrible and I will be selling the place in the not too distant future. Thanks.


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    galwaydude18
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    If you put it down with no more nails there will be no way of taking it up without wrecking the floor! I have never heard of flat beading. The most common beading to use in ur situation is quad beading. It a quater of a circle as you look at the end of it!


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    Wertz
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    Get cork beading and use gripfill or no more nails. The cork will take to the curve a lot handier.

    You can varnish the cork up when you're done or even paint it to match it in with the floor or hide it with the hearth.


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    galwaydude18
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    cork would like absolutly dreadful!


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    Wertz
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    Look better than a half arsed attempt at bending a quadrant of white deal around a piece of granite.

    Careful with those exclamation marks; you'll have someone's eye out...


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    galwaydude18
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    ya maybe yours! lol.... anyhow a quadrant will always look a lot more better than anything else. its more work in the long run but will look a lot better especially when it would come to selling the house.


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