How to Transition Hardwood and Tile Floors
I'd like to share some thoughts on how to transition hardwood and tile floors. Flooring has become a very popular Diy task for many home owners. Also every Diy program on television has featured numerous programs on installing your own hardwood and tile floors.
How to Transition Hardwood and Tile Floors
So you might ask why I'm focusing on the floor transition? The sass is simple, I've seen so many Diy flooring projects in homes that look genuinely great except for one detail, the floor transition looks awful.
Whether you're installing solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, laminate, or tile the issues are all the same. You genuinely need to plan the floor transitions before you start any flooring installation. There are some basic issues that arise at the floor transitions.Elevation - The final floor elevation of each type of flooring material is a major issue that needs permissible attentiveness in order for your new floor to look great and not become a maintenance issue. Location of Transition -The actual location that you stop one flooring type and start other within a door opening, cased occasion or room divorce is a very prominent aesthetic consideration. Special Transitions - Stairways can pose some involving transitions that need extra attentiveness and transition pieces.
Elevation Elevation changes are fairly base in remodeling projects when sub-floors can't genuinely be adjusted for dissimilar flooring thicknesses. As you can see in the adjacent photo, the use of a transition threshold molding is the easiest way to take care of this problem. This can occur if you setup a hardwood floor over existing flooring adjacent to a flooring material that will not be changing.
Location of Transition The location of the transition depends on the area where you're changing floor types. The easiest transition is a cased occasion because there genuinely isn't a right or wrong sass on the location. In the top photo you can see a cased occasion where I changed from hardwood to tile between our kitchen and mudroom. The key to that transition is to setup a piece of wood perpendicular to the running direction in order to have the transition piece parallel to the tile.
The other location that needs consideration is at doorways. As you can see in the adjacent photo I transitioned the hardwood to tile under the ended door. This way when the door is ended you only see hardwood on the hall side and tile from inside the bathroom. It's prominent that you know the exact location of the door if you're installing the flooring prior to hanging the door.
Special Transitions Stairways are locations which need extra moldings in order to originate an aesthetic ended look. The use of a matching stair nose molding is the best way to accomplish the ended look. As you can see in the photo I used a piece of Brazilian Cherry nose molding to transition from the engineered Brazilian Cherry flooring to the top step on our stairway.
The key to a victorious Diy flooring task is establishment and attentiveness to details. Make sure you order all the transition moldings you need and take the time to lay them out before you begin. permissible floor transitions will make your new floors look like they were expertly installed.
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