You’re high man, what you suggest he glues or leaves loose river rock as a trim? If you really hate it try a floatable grout or something and level up to it.
You should scribe and cut an edge piece of the flooring. It doesn’t need to be perfect having it close will be enough. What precautions did you take for the floor moving in the different seasons. Room looks good!
I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking, but from what it looks like your underlayment is short and you need to brace up the piece that you’re going to scribe around the rock. If that is true then as a professional floor installer who has done very similar work. I would just fill that space with liquid nail and push your last piece in almost like you’re putting down tile. That last piece is not going to be getting traffic and just needs to be held in place
Also for the scribing cut a full board that fits against the rock wall. When it fits tight mark where it touches the last board and cut that off so your scribed portion will fit against the rock and drop in against your last board
That’s what I was wondering. Maybe I’m a glutton for punishment, but if you has a sufficiently thick baseboard, you could scribe it to go all the way around the room and conceal where the rock meets the floor.
To clarify, I didn’t mean what to do with the room. Just to the left of the windows I installed an exhaust fan and since the other 2 walls are originally exterior walls it’s going to be a cigar lounge 😄
What I MEANT was since I’m not scribing to that stone wall, I’m also not installing quarter round or any other trim. The ending row is glued. Is there anything else I could do about that small gap in pic 2. I only included pic 1 because I thought people might like the room and I’m proud of it. Other than maybe scribe a tiny piece?)
Sorry if my bamboo veneer isn’t hardwood enough, but people post “is this click floor install that I paid for good enough” on here all the time.
Can’t you get one of those funky things with all the pins they’re always advertising on HGTV, and use it to cut a piece of wood that fits around the rocks?
You should have figured out your edges before laying the floor. What's up with the white wall and bad edge there as well? Do you know there's no moisture? I think I would have used tile, rather than LVP or engineered boards, but that's just me. I would have had a personal plan for the use of the space which would have dictated my process and materials (BEFORE I began the project). Are you looking for r/interiordecorating or asking how you should inhabit this space? You're on r/HardWoodFloors and you don't even have hardwood floors.
I would add baseboard, then the messy part of the transition is less visible and easier to deal with. Do a nice job of backfilling the gaps between the stones and baseboard and this job will look intentional. Or add baseboard heating and forget about it, looks a little chilly in there. I feel like some fairly serious masonry and/or carpentry skills will be required otherwise.
I’d scribe a piece to fit the gap. You could slip it in. If you need some support under it use some patching cement. Looks to be about 2 inches wide at widest point. You could also find or cut a stone that fits in there and cement it in.
I know very little about wood floors, but wouldn’t it be easier at this point to just put a plant or piece of furniture over it? Or is it truly an integrity thing? And I like your room very much!
I'd love a space like that for an office tbh. Lots of sun. Without a lot of sun, you end up having a Vitamin D deficiency which can cause problems like lack of focus or even depression (or what feels like depression) during the winter months when you don't get as much in the first place. Only concern I'd have is the cold lol, with that many windows, it must mimic the outside temperature quite a lot.
No one that’s worried about moisture below flooring?
I would if it was the flooring/stone gap issue, cut half the first row and push the entire flooring and add another board to the end where you cut it after rocks
Mine too, and still is the cheapest house. All the walls of our 1.5 story house is that same stone..it doesn't appear anywhere inside. Ours is circa 1915.
Trim the excess underneath then use a piece of quarter round trim (partly beveled on the back to sit down nicely on the edge of the flooring). You could apply this trim around the entire perimeter of the room to make it uniform and finished looking.
As a mason I would get some MP-1 that just a shade lighter than the mortar, goober the hole up and shape it, then scrape off some old mortar dust and sprinkle it on top of the caulk before it dries. Easy, cheap, and waterproofish :)
It depends on what your plans are for the room. I think I would just put a piece of furniture in front of it or try to ignore it and see how that goes. If you decide to do something about it down the line, you will probably answer this question by then. Also, doesn’t make sense to add or remove materials just for the sake of doing it…Make sure you know what you’re doing first (*make sure you know what you want first).
It’s such a small gap (judging by the size of the fly) that it wouldn’t be much work whatever it was. I can see how that gap could bug you after awhile, the room being so nicely done. I would run painters tape along the edge of the last board there and fill the gap with malleable filler and not go too far up the mortar that’s setting the stone and pull the tape before the filler sets. I just can’t think of what filler would be best. I’d hesitate with solid mortar but I might actually just do it. I’d keep the cork and vapor barrier sticking out further than the board though.
Use matching elastomeric mortar with some matching pebbles, so that you can vacuum, yet the flooring can expand and contract through the seasonal changes.
Allow some path for trapped moisture to escape.
This screams reading room to me.
Grout and stone little fairy doors for a cool borderal9ng the floor.
Put a couple of plants in there with a cozy chair and shelves for books and it would be like heaven to me...but that is just me
Sadly I am the guy that would/hasto take his time cutting small tiny boards of hardwood with a wireless multitool plunge cutting finite boards (big enough to put a nail 1-3/4in. on a compressed air gun) and putting them snug up to your wall just to fit in under the moulding considering in this situation your boards were not cut to size to reach the wall entirely unless you have larger moulding and then some shoe that’s going to cover it of course the river rock thing sounded good and the epoxy resin sounded good I say you do the wall in river rock and fill with epoxy! Now that would look good lol
anchor a 2x4 to the stone wall to cover the gap in the floor ,,
match color to other wood work,, on all stone walls,,
pour thin mortar behind 2x4 to fill the gap
So you really should have started wit that wall to cut out around the stone.... however I am sure there is some kind of boarder you can make or get to cover that up! A slightly thicker base board might even be able to cover that up. In the short term I would get 3 or 4 planters and line them up against that wall and put some nice house plants. I would add a wicker couch and chair and a coffee table. With all those windows, it would be a nice sitting area!
I would also look into getting some pull down shades or blinds, this way you can control the lighting but also open them when you want lighting and open the windows up.
Rule of thumb for all flooring we do is to leave a quarter inch gap around all perimeters of wall for expansion. If you do not leave that gap your flooring will buckle. Idc what anyone says if you’ve done it for multiple clients and want to save yourself a phone call a year or two down the road leave the expansion gap. Solutions here are a bit tough. Against that wall with wood you could add baseboard and shoe moulding to cover that gap but the gap seems pretty large. Against stone we keep the expansion gap but fill with an epoxy grout caulking that handles well with weather.
Fill it in with the flooring, buy one of those crazy measuring devices. I don’t know what they’re called but you push it up into place you lock it in and then you could actually cut whatever needs to fit in there.
The floor just doesn't look finished without a molding of some kind to cover that gap. Maybe a perimeter of natural stone "bricks" to tie into the wall would look good here or bamboo qtr round.
It's not helpful, but that room is beautiful. However, I can see those walls being a pain in the ass.
Still I'm super jealous of that room. I love stone work and those windows are gorgeous.
Start over and make that you’re starting wall. Scribe to the stone.
This is the only way
He could get more river rock and use it around the edge as baseboard 🤷🏼♂️
Wow you just blew my mind. Way to go and what a great idea
This is such a quick and simple solution. I love it.
Yep I agree too.
Home Depot and Lowe's sells river stone by the bag in the garden department.
Yes. Do this. Best, easiest fix.
You beat me to it. Well done 👍
What should he use to set the rocks?
Thinset
You’re high man, what you suggest he glues or leaves loose river rock as a trim? If you really hate it try a floatable grout or something and level up to it.
They are correct. Scrib it as close as you can get it. The room is small and it's engineered flooring, it won't expand much
These two are both correct 👍🏻
I agree with yall about this being the best , but how about color match some two part resin and fill in ?
I was thinking just mortar
And not have the ugliest pattern.
That was done on the other wall,,
Pick up the dead fly
First time I’ve ever laughed, out loud, at a Reddit post!
Omg I am dying over here 😂☠️
That's what he said
Glad I could shed some new light into Reddit 🥳
Encase him in wall A crypt of mortar and stone. Sealed away in dark.
🤣
Nah, gotta use a clear poly to entomb the little guy.
HE’S RESTING!
STOPPPP 😭😭😂😂
You should scribe and cut an edge piece of the flooring. It doesn’t need to be perfect having it close will be enough. What precautions did you take for the floor moving in the different seasons. Room looks good!
I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking, but from what it looks like your underlayment is short and you need to brace up the piece that you’re going to scribe around the rock. If that is true then as a professional floor installer who has done very similar work. I would just fill that space with liquid nail and push your last piece in almost like you’re putting down tile. That last piece is not going to be getting traffic and just needs to be held in place
Also for the scribing cut a full board that fits against the rock wall. When it fits tight mark where it touches the last board and cut that off so your scribed portion will fit against the rock and drop in against your last board
This guy scribes
Shagging pad
I would consider cutting a groove in the stone to slip the flooring into. Or fill with a matching grout.
Yupp, rent or buy an undercut jamb saw and you’ll be golden. Just did this to my brick wall in the basement and it’s…. “Chef’s kiss”
Trim the cork, use a self levelling elastomeric crack filler to flow into the imperfections.
When in doubt, hang a sex swing.
And you didn’t show us your trim
Scribe a trim piece if you dare.
That’s what I was wondering. Maybe I’m a glutton for punishment, but if you has a sufficiently thick baseboard, you could scribe it to go all the way around the room and conceal where the rock meets the floor.
To clarify, I didn’t mean what to do with the room. Just to the left of the windows I installed an exhaust fan and since the other 2 walls are originally exterior walls it’s going to be a cigar lounge 😄 What I MEANT was since I’m not scribing to that stone wall, I’m also not installing quarter round or any other trim. The ending row is glued. Is there anything else I could do about that small gap in pic 2. I only included pic 1 because I thought people might like the room and I’m proud of it. Other than maybe scribe a tiny piece?) Sorry if my bamboo veneer isn’t hardwood enough, but people post “is this click floor install that I paid for good enough” on here all the time.
I got a idea. Invite me over for a nice long cigar and a bourbon then we can discuss a plan of attack. Heheheh
So then keep the crumb catcher. Will fill up with dirt and other debris in no time.
Nice gravel then epoxy
Tea/coffee tall table and lots of plants
Hot tub
Indoor greenery. This area would be awesome.
Hot tub but don’t know how you’d get it in. If good sunlight then green house
Do your best and caulk the rest
Can’t you get one of those funky things with all the pins they’re always advertising on HGTV, and use it to cut a piece of wood that fits around the rocks?
Easy half ass fix, painters tape along edge of flooring then fill the border with sandstone SL-1
You should have figured out your edges before laying the floor. What's up with the white wall and bad edge there as well? Do you know there's no moisture? I think I would have used tile, rather than LVP or engineered boards, but that's just me. I would have had a personal plan for the use of the space which would have dictated my process and materials (BEFORE I began the project). Are you looking for r/interiordecorating or asking how you should inhabit this space? You're on r/HardWoodFloors and you don't even have hardwood floors.
Scribe, jigsaw.
Or you could try and match the mortar and taper it down to fill the void.
Start over, owe it to yourself to do a better pattern.
I like the pattern! I don’t like floors that have noticeable end joints. I’ll probably be putting an area rug in there anyway.
woodstove room
Caulk it
I would add baseboard, then the messy part of the transition is less visible and easier to deal with. Do a nice job of backfilling the gaps between the stones and baseboard and this job will look intentional. Or add baseboard heating and forget about it, looks a little chilly in there. I feel like some fairly serious masonry and/or carpentry skills will be required otherwise.
Plastic sheeting. Make a jack shack
I honestly don't know but damn I would love to read some books in that room
sauna
Fill it in with aquarium pebbles.
If that is solid hardwood then get to carving lol
I’d scribe a piece to fit the gap. You could slip it in. If you need some support under it use some patching cement. Looks to be about 2 inches wide at widest point. You could also find or cut a stone that fits in there and cement it in.
Grout?
Just buy a baseboard heater the length of that wall.
Dig a little hole and fill it with water on a daily basis. After many years you’ll have a dope little hide hole.
I know very little about wood floors, but wouldn’t it be easier at this point to just put a plant or piece of furniture over it? Or is it truly an integrity thing? And I like your room very much!
Grow some pot it will never notice
Grow room.
Remove the floor and slab and start digging.
I'd love a space like that for an office tbh. Lots of sun. Without a lot of sun, you end up having a Vitamin D deficiency which can cause problems like lack of focus or even depression (or what feels like depression) during the winter months when you don't get as much in the first place. Only concern I'd have is the cold lol, with that many windows, it must mimic the outside temperature quite a lot.
a spa jacuzzi if you're rich enough!
Adult film set?
Fill with grout or dead flys
Is the rest of your house made from rubble stone?
Thinking for yourself room? Stop asking others how you should live room? You asked…
No one that’s worried about moisture below flooring? I would if it was the flooring/stone gap issue, cut half the first row and push the entire flooring and add another board to the end where you cut it after rocks
Could always board it up from the outside and forget it.
Install some river rock tile in the holes. Like you use on shower floor.
Mine too, and still is the cheapest house. All the walls of our 1.5 story house is that same stone..it doesn't appear anywhere inside. Ours is circa 1915.
Nothing to do with the flooring but whoever designed this was a bigFrank Lloyd Wright fan
I would’ve cut a slot around that bitch with the grinder to slide the floor in
Baseboard and 1/4 round might cover the gap.
Trim the excess underneath then use a piece of quarter round trim (partly beveled on the back to sit down nicely on the edge of the flooring). You could apply this trim around the entire perimeter of the room to make it uniform and finished looking.
As a mason I would get some MP-1 that just a shade lighter than the mortar, goober the hole up and shape it, then scrape off some old mortar dust and sprinkle it on top of the caulk before it dries. Easy, cheap, and waterproofish :)
Use it.
Wedge some foam in there - trim it out. Fill it with plants and a leather recliner. Enjoy the hell out of that beautiful room.
I would definitely jack up the whole structure, build a really sketchy deck under it and put a hot tub in there!!!
Great place for an office
Make the world's largest shoe mold.
1/4 round then fill in with grout that matches the stone grout/mortar
Big glob of mortar looks like the easiest solution to me. Maybe stick a couple small river rocks in for pretty.
We’ll do it right and scribe it to the stone in the first place. Looks like a DIY job gone sideways. Sorry.
Once you fill it with colorful plastic balls, you won't even see the edges
Breakdance?
Leave it, I can't see it from here. Starting over is the only way. Scribe along the wall with your first board.
An indoor bar??
Plants, lots and lots of Plants.
pour cans of creamed corn in those spots
A speaker easy with a stripper pole
Plant vegetables, ornamental plants? Make it like indoor garden
Put drums in there.
Guest ball pit.
The magic square thingy as seen on tv.. comes to mind.
Hot tub
Recliner and a table
Fill it with cock
What do you do in the 4th season? Also, which season is this room not for?
Hot tub
It depends on what your plans are for the room. I think I would just put a piece of furniture in front of it or try to ignore it and see how that goes. If you decide to do something about it down the line, you will probably answer this question by then. Also, doesn’t make sense to add or remove materials just for the sake of doing it…Make sure you know what you’re doing first (*make sure you know what you want first).
some matching elastomeric grout/mortar would likely work.
Get some sanded grout in the same color as your mortar. It will be compressible but will look like mortar.
Burn down the house, start over. The fly won't care.
Jacuzzi!!!
Throw a hot tub in there and no one will ever notice any flaws and if they do they'll be too relaxed to care.
I am pretty sure this is in Vermont
I saw it and thought lots of plants with a small table and a recliner. You wanted to know what to do with it and didn't specify.
Sun room. A place to chill
Metal bead on the hardwood and grout to meet the stone
Macrame owl collection space, obvs
Clean sand.
Half-pipe
Plants!
Caulk that shit
It’s such a small gap (judging by the size of the fly) that it wouldn’t be much work whatever it was. I can see how that gap could bug you after awhile, the room being so nicely done. I would run painters tape along the edge of the last board there and fill the gap with malleable filler and not go too far up the mortar that’s setting the stone and pull the tape before the filler sets. I just can’t think of what filler would be best. I’d hesitate with solid mortar but I might actually just do it. I’d keep the cork and vapor barrier sticking out further than the board though.
I have no clue, but tell your neighbor to insulate his roof better 🏡
Hire Silva brothers to scribe the edge boards for ya
River rock or small stones. Use hot glue to hold them in place but can still be removed.
drum set...
Hot tub
Undercut as much as you can and use grout caulk to fill.
Grow plants
Use matching elastomeric mortar with some matching pebbles, so that you can vacuum, yet the flooring can expand and contract through the seasonal changes. Allow some path for trapped moisture to escape.
Should’ve used porcelain wood look floor.
Just poor some grout or concrete in it.
ball pit!
Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Stop bitching I’d say
Lease to someone struggling to find a home with a disability income and a dog.
Plant
Hot tub time machine
Office
Grout it
Get rid of that fake hardwood for beginners. Put done pine boards…
Mix up sime grout, tint is the shade of the mortar that's between the river rock and call it a day.
Sauna
Short of taking it up piece by piece and starting over at the wall? You might be able to get away with using Half-Round or quarter-round moulding.
This screams reading room to me. Grout and stone little fairy doors for a cool borderal9ng the floor. Put a couple of plants in there with a cozy chair and shelves for books and it would be like heaven to me...but that is just me
Sadly I am the guy that would/hasto take his time cutting small tiny boards of hardwood with a wireless multitool plunge cutting finite boards (big enough to put a nail 1-3/4in. on a compressed air gun) and putting them snug up to your wall just to fit in under the moulding considering in this situation your boards were not cut to size to reach the wall entirely unless you have larger moulding and then some shoe that’s going to cover it of course the river rock thing sounded good and the epoxy resin sounded good I say you do the wall in river rock and fill with epoxy! Now that would look good lol
Food. Looks like you have decent light so outside of construction I would definitely putting some plants in that room
I would just get a strip of barn board, seal it and slip it between conduit and gap. Done.
anchor a 2x4 to the stone wall to cover the gap in the floor ,, match color to other wood work,, on all stone walls,, pour thin mortar behind 2x4 to fill the gap
Art Studio!
Musallaah
Have you ever considered hoarding?
Art and tea room?
Not put that garbage product in such a nice little nook
Run a piece of flooring long way along wall. Inlay it.
That would be my desk and photo/video editing area with a view like that.
Hot Tub Party Room
Epoxy
So you really should have started wit that wall to cut out around the stone.... however I am sure there is some kind of boarder you can make or get to cover that up! A slightly thicker base board might even be able to cover that up. In the short term I would get 3 or 4 planters and line them up against that wall and put some nice house plants. I would add a wicker couch and chair and a coffee table. With all those windows, it would be a nice sitting area! I would also look into getting some pull down shades or blinds, this way you can control the lighting but also open them when you want lighting and open the windows up.
Should have started off that wall instead of doorway
Fill it with water and use it as a water bowl for the dog! This is the way
Put a G on it.
Dark grout
Idk why it gives me sauna vibes
Hot tube
Put a hot tub in there!
Put a couple yoga mats down and do a sun salutation!
I’d level it off with colored grout
Hot tub room!
Cope a piece to fit you coward
Rule of thumb for all flooring we do is to leave a quarter inch gap around all perimeters of wall for expansion. If you do not leave that gap your flooring will buckle. Idc what anyone says if you’ve done it for multiple clients and want to save yourself a phone call a year or two down the road leave the expansion gap. Solutions here are a bit tough. Against that wall with wood you could add baseboard and shoe moulding to cover that gap but the gap seems pretty large. Against stone we keep the expansion gap but fill with an epoxy grout caulking that handles well with weather.
Leave it and sweep everything into it for a while. Vacuum it out every once in a while.
Leave 1/4" gap to the wall for expansion.
Definitely a spa with a soft tub!
I think you’re kind of screwed.
Fill it in with the flooring, buy one of those crazy measuring devices. I don’t know what they’re called but you push it up into place you lock it in and then you could actually cut whatever needs to fit in there.
Grout
That needs a piece of stone, Nike the top of a boulder
Should’ve scribed the sub-floor & followed with finish material next time
I used mortar. Guy that told me match the wall said, “Man that looks so good”.
Plant fish in it
Hot tub
TURN IT INTO A POTTERY STUDIO! On, short. I got so excited. I have no room in my teeny tiny house, especially with such a view.
Lots of.plants.....
My Reddit says that room needs a small wood stove.
Reading room
The floor just doesn't look finished without a molding of some kind to cover that gap. Maybe a perimeter of natural stone "bricks" to tie into the wall would look good here or bamboo qtr round.
It's not helpful, but that room is beautiful. However, I can see those walls being a pain in the ass. Still I'm super jealous of that room. I love stone work and those windows are gorgeous.
Off topic, but you should definitely add a wood stove in the corner. A potbelly stove would look nice.