Help with flooring transition!
Please help decide how to handle transition from hall (oak) to bathroom (grey LVP). The current transition strip is glued down. We do have a transition piece for the LVP. I think 2 transition pieces next to each other will look dumb. But I don't know how to remove the glued down oak transition piece. HELP! TIA
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norwega18
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PROBeth H. :
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agobreak up the old one and get a reducer (or a ramp) for the threshold.
you can get one refinished, or raw and do it your self. in oak if you like.since it's coming off the wood floor, I'd keep it like that. put your laminate right up to it
this is a poor color example, but it shows you how it reduces the level
other material
norwega18 thanked Beth H. :norwega18
3 years agohmmm, we can try to get it off, how do you take it off without destroying the wood floor beneath? Here's a photo of the primary bath, floor is done.
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Beth H. :
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agooh well shoot. I would have used a reducer that matches that tile. When the door is closed, which floor do you see? the wood ? or the tile?
to give you an idea, I had marble in the bathroom that transitions to wood
See how it slopes?
you should have had something like that made w/your tile, or get something that matches it. when the door closes, the transition piece is hidden w/the bathroom.or, from the inside, if you do the wood, you shouldn't see it. from the outside if door closed, you should only see the wood piece. just depends where the door closes on your transition threshold
cut back your gray tile and put in the transition. when the door closes, it should completely conceal ithere's another one. blurry though
how to break yours off? very carefully chisel. norwega18
3 years agoSJ McCarthy
3 years agonorwega18
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3 years agoSJ McCarthy
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