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New tile floor trip bar need help quick

9 years ago

We are 2 days into our kitchen renovation which was supposed to last a lifetime. We chose tile flooring and upon returning home today found that the transition between the Tile flooring and our hardwood floor just left us with a1/2 inch or better lip between the existing floor and new tile. It looks awful. I am thinking of asking him to pick it up and lay laminate. Is that unreasonable? He should have told us that between the tile and underlay it would increase height of floor by an inch. And am I going to have to eat the expense? I really don't have the money to finance another project.
Thanks. I'd like to be ready to discuss this with him in the am. (having a hard time loading the pic)

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bill_vincent
9 years ago
Are you saying the hardwood is a 1/2" HIGHER than the tile, or the other way around?
Lisa0448
Original Author
9 years ago
Old hardwood is below the new tile. Big transition step.
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bill_vincent
9 years ago
I'd be curious as to what was there before, and if your installer did any demolition to the old floor. As it sits right now, if you want to leave the tile as is, you might think about putting in hardwood reducer strips butting up to the tile to match your hardwood. It really gets me that it's that much higher, though, especially if it's butted up to 3/4" hardwood. If the original floor were stripped down to the original subfloor, then 1/4" cement board and tile should make the tile just about come flush to the hardwood.
hippy
9 years ago
It happens all the time. A homeowner will choose a tile or type of flooring and the installer will install it without thinking. Tile and flooring is not something that you can just throw down and make it work and come out even especially on a remodel. Here's why..

You start out with all of the subfloor heights even. You decide to install 1/2" thick wood flooring in all of the rooms but the kitchen. When new the builder compensated for the extra height when they tiled the kitchen. Say for example 1/4" thick tile was used. The builder would add 1/4" thick plywood to raise the floor to where the tile would be even with the wood flooring..

Fast forward.. You come along and decide to redo the kitchen floor with 1/2" tile that calls for a 1/4" underlayment. You now have 3/4" total height to deal with. The old 1/4" tile is removed. Minus 1/4 from 3/4 you have 1/2 left.

!/2" will be the difference in height between the old and new. So now you have three choices. Go back and find a tile or flooring type with a thickness that will come out even when fully installed. Rip out all of the old wood flooring throughout the house and start over. Add a transition piece and learn to live with it.

Myself I would have did a lot of measuring and after if you wanted to go with the tile you choose. Then I would have added something like a Shur-Trim transition piece under the tile and onto the wood flooring.
weedyacres
9 years ago
Rubbing my eyes here....Bill? Bill Vincent? You're B-A-C-K!!!

Missed you around here. :-)
bill_vincent
9 years ago
Hey Lady. :-) Long time no...er.... see. :-)
kirkhall
9 years ago
I had to go back and check the date (year)!
Yay!!!

Yes, reducer might be your best bet.
rwiegand
9 years ago
Very common problem in renovation, (even in new construction getting different flooring materials to come out the same height seems to be darn near impossible) I made beveled hardwood threshold pieces to even out the transitions. In a week or two you will no longer notice it.

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