How to Transition Laminate Floors/Wood Floor To Tile at Door
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- In this video we show you how to transition wood floor to tile floor through a wood floor doorway transition, when the tile was improperly cut and jagged, creating a challenge for installing the wood floor transition molding. Hardwood flooring is all fun and games until you get to your wood floor transition doorway.
Transition wood floor between room
Typically when you want to transition wood floors between rooms through a door way to meet up with tile, you use a T-mold wood floor transition strip. This tile to wood door threshold piece would normally be a simple glue down wood floor transition T-moulding strip. But in this case, to make our tile to wood transition using transition strips for laminate flooring, we show you how to use an angle grinder to slice the edge of the tile floor at the doorway transition into a straight line first.
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tile to wood floor transition doorway
When you transition wood floor to tile floor as part of your wood floor doorway transition, you need to make sure the end of each floor surface is straight and has a nice edge to it, unlike the jagged edge tile floors you see for tile to wood floor transition doorway.
tile to wood threshold
Just remember, when you transition wood floor between rooms you have to think smartly about what parts you are using for your wood floor transition molding, and where your wood floors and tile floors have to end at the doorway for your tile to wood transition, which is usually a T-mold wood floor transition strip made for hardwood floors.
this video shows you some useful tile to wood floor transition ideas for when you install a wood to tile transition. We hope you found this tile to wood threshold strip installation video useful. Now you can how others how to install a wood to tile floor transition, and easily be bale to transition wood floor to tile.
Tools used in this video:
General Tools TS02 ToolSmart Bluetooth Connected Digital Angle Finder amzn.to/2FKb5lt
RYOBI AG4031G 4-1/2" 5.5-Amp Angle Grinder amzn.to/2BNYYjr
Rockwell Sonicrafter cuts door jams: amzn.to/2CrWYyX
DEWALT DW715 Chop Saw: amzn.to/2RchGLw
Ridgid R4510 Portable Table Saw with Stand: amzn.to/2BMY5rJ
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Every job I have ever hired someone to do on my home was done shoddy just like this tile job. I now do everything I can possibly do myself.
Yes, this tile job was done by the builder in 1974, and they used the spot mortar method, instead of back buttering, or troweling mortar onto the floor with trowel lines, they dabbed a few globs on the back of the tiles, now the floors sound hollow when you walk on them, and have a few cracks on the tiles here and there.
Same here bogleman101. Best to do things yourself.
Keep in mind a lot of older houses have a central return air system for the ac/heating. If the doors are cut flush with the flooring or threshold the ac doesnt get proper return air from those rooms cut off by having the doors shut. In those situations youll hear doors slamming when the ac or heater kicks on. This can be resolved by adding return air ducts to the rooms effected or alternately cutting the doors with a gap under them. Ive seen vents cut into the doors themselves. This fix is a good one. The only other acceptable option would be to cut the tile back so that your trasition piece covers the threshold from the outermost edges on both sides of the door jam.
Yes we always have a gap underneath the door
Thank You so much for the video, very helpful!
You're very welcome!
Wow didnt the previous tiler realise theres such things as a tile cutter and he doesnt have to cut them with his teeth lol
That tile job there was so bad, there were hollow spots of no thin set mortar under the tiles, makes a hollow sound when you walk on it
Very helpful !!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching Ray!
If you are just trying to see how to add the transition go to 15:33
Cut to the chase!
Looks decent but I wouldn’t be happy with those ‘holes’ by the jambs on the laminate side. Why not cut the t-molding to cover them? Or make sure the floor goes under the jamb by cutting them correctly? Easy enough solutions.
I did not leave holes there, look closely at the video at 12:12 I explained we slid in small pieces of wood to take up those holes. Normally in remodels, I use a much better door frame molding profile than that cheap one the builders leave you with, the builder always leaves that gap there. Also they cut the frame too high, so high that it's way above the wood floor! I normally cut the bottom of the door frame so that my floor pieces slide underneath tight so there is no gap. Because we had to slide in at an angle, it was too much to cut a piece that would fit under their huge gap door frame, and give expansion room at the same time.
very easy fix
Yes it is easy, thanks for watching!
So, the T molding will hide significant height differences between new tile and existing carpet? Will the T molding being slanted be a problem?
Yes, it will. You'll have to ask your dealer for a reducer t-mold which will have different levels on the two sides of the stem. This will compensate for the height difference. Regards.
Hi Jeff! I have a similar situation, but my gap between tile and laminate is about 2 and 1/4 inches. The tile ends at the beginning of the door jam. Any ideas on how to fill that gap?
That's a tough one, I have not seen any T-molding that stretches that wide. Keep searching online for wide t-molds or t-molds for large gapes, that sort of thing. Worse comes t o worse, you lay some more tile to shorten that gap to the correct size gap you need.
Hi, thank you for the tutorial
Originally in the video the tile covered the entire doorway and you cut it back to make it straight. I have a similar situation whereas my tile covers the doorway, but it is straight. Do I still have to cut the tile to accommodate the T-mold?
(I am putting down new planks floor also)
thank you
Yes, the t-mold should butt up against the tile when the T-mold is placed o the floor. but the T-mold should have the wood floor slide underneath the T, but not come all the way to the stop in the middle, we have to leave 1/4" gap under the T for the wood to expand and contract. Calculate how big a gap you need from the edge of the laminate flooring t to where the T-mold is against the tile. If you need to widen the existing gap, it's easier to do it by cutting the laminate.
@@jeffostroff thank you very much for your help. i am very new at putting down planks. your video was extremely helpful and easy to understand. you explained the process so a novice could understand.....appreciate it.
@@sammorr3711 make sure your bottom floor plate is a pressure treated lumber per building code
Could have done a much better job by notching the ends of the moulding so it fit snug to the door frames on the wooden floor side of the door?......
Ideally you don't want that wood fitting snug up against oother wood, you need to allow for expansion. I hide these tiny expansion joints with caulk.
jeffostroff...... I am talking about the huge gaps to the left & right of the cover strip. You say needed for Expansion, BS, if notched correctly the flooring underneath won’t be in contact. You must go through a lot of caulk?
@@rainey165raine9 LOL, to cover 1" at the end? So you go do it your way, run your wood all the way up against the door frame. Good luck with that.
Hi Jeff. What is the right size of the gab to use a t molding, an inch or more?
I try to make sure that the vertical part of the T-molding is 1/4" gap on both sides of it between the tile and the vertical part. You can glue the vertical part of the T-mold up against one side of tiles, and leave the other gapped, but make sure the top part of the T can still cover the other tile.
To me, it feels a bit odd to cut the wood flooring and tiles to adjust for the bodge the builder made with the door. As a home owner Id rather have the floor right and then replace the door later.
Isn't more space under door better for air flow?
No, you don't really need airflow. You need the transition piece to remain glued down.
Ya, I came to comment this! In houses without lots of air returns they leave door gags for air return
No expansion gaps for the laminate floor?
You are not paying attention. If you look at 11:00, you'll see plenty of expansion space below the transition piece, and then at least 1/4" along the wall where each of the 45 degree planks are coming near the wall. Not sure how you think there are no gaps there.
Another question is why does the bathroom door open into the bedroom rather than the bathroom?
Might be for evacuation purposes, if you're in the bathroom and there's a fire, maybe they were thinking it's easier to push the door open into the bedroom.