Q: I have tile floors and I put hardwoods in a room next to the tile. The tile is a bit higher than the wood, they’re not even. Is there anything I can do to make the floor look even?
A: Go to the nearest hardwood retailer. They should have a selection of transition strips to choose from.
A floor height difference between living room and kitchen
Similar Q: I have a problem with a transition from living room to the kitchen that I need advice for. There’s a floor height difference between rooms. Can you help?
A: There are a variety of different transition strips to accommodate most situations. Or you could have one made.
Note from Webmaster: Here’s a guide from the Home Depot on how to select the right floor transitions/molding –
http://community.homedepot.com/t5/Laminate-Vinyl-and-Wood/how-to-select-the-right-floor-transitions-moulding/td-p/19141
Can I just use a transition strip?
Q imported from our old site, Face Lift Floors: I have a linoleum floor on a subfloor on top of the apenite house flooring, and rug throughout the rest of the house. Do I have to remove the old flooring in the kitchen for the transition to the rest of the house without having to put a subfloor under the area with the rugs to bring it up to level with the kitchen floor or can I use some sort of transition strip? I really don’t want to remove the old kitchen floor as there are approximately 400 sq ft in there. If that is the only recourse then away we go then, rip, rip, rip.
A: Are you planning to remove the carpet (which if I understand correctly, is lower by the thickness of an additional layer of plywood) and install hardwood floors at some point? If so, I wish to remind you that manufacturers do not recommend nor warranty their nail down solid wood hardwood installed on chipboard, which you say is the main subfloor in the kitchen. In that case, you would have to install at least 3/8 plywood first.
At any rate, there are a number of transition strips that will work in your present circumstance. Any flooring distributor should be able to show you a variety of them in wood or metal. It might very well be, depending on how much of a height difference exists, that a near suitable transition strip may have to be slightly altered. But go shopping first. Make sure you know how much the height difference is. There are beveled reducers. T caps. Dome caps and other reducers that sit on top of the edge of the higher flooring surface and bevel down to the lower floor. Sounds to me that is the sort of thing you are looking for. You are not going to rip out your kitchen floor over a reducer!
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