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Help with flooring transition!

5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago

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


Comments (10)

  • 5 years ago

    I agree. The LVP is the topmost piece, grey, stone/concrete look so no issues of it looking fake. We have a travertine LVP type flooring (Wilsonart, no longer made) that we love in the kitchen. It's on the upper floor of a split level so ceramic or other tile isn't needed.

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    break 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




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  • 5 years ago

    hmmm, 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.


  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    oh 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 it

    here's another one. blurry though




    how to break yours off? very carefully chisel.

  • 5 years ago

    thanks all. We're going to cut a sample piece of tile with a 45degree edge and see if it meets up cleanly with the current oak transition. That transition piece is in all the hallway doors (4) and separates the kitchen/dining from the living room floor so I think choosing something different will look weird. Once we pull up that transition piece, we can't put it back down as it will be destroyed. The floors are within 1 cm difference in height, but the transition has a bit of a rounded edge, so with an angle cut perhaps the tile will have a smooth edge with the transition. The next option, would be to cut a 1/4 inch off the transition, and have the floors butt up to each other.


  • 5 years ago

    IS the LVP floating or glue down?

  • 5 years ago

    Floating

  • 5 years ago

    Coretec Plus

  • 5 years ago

    If you were to glue this down you could but this up against the hardwood and never worry again.