The thing about saddles is that they are horrible for wheelchairs and walkers. Maybe you don't use either, maybe your parents and aunts and uncles don't either, but they might in the future.

We have saddles all over our house. It's a nightmare for the elderly.

Thank you. We do plan on adding a marble saddle but we’ll still have that piece of plywood (beneath the orange) exposed.

Might have to have one milled custom for your application with one side relieved.

I had to have a custom saddle made that was beveled out past the door jamb to compensate for the floor height difference.

In an old house sometimes a floor height difference in the bathroom can't be avoided. Many old houses here have an actual step at the bathroom door.

My contractor made a stepped threshold for the 3/4 inch height gap between the bath addition and the bedroom floor in my 100 year old house. The piece was stained trying to match the wood in the bedroom but is a bit off.

Is there anything we can do with a marble saddle? We want to match the marble with the countertop next to the bathroom.

" Is there anything we can do with a marble saddle? We want to match the marble with the countertop next to the bathroom. "

Visit a stone fabricator, they can mill one for you from Marble. Should be no issues.

Yes I can get the same marble, this isn’t my concern. My concern is that the marble saddle will sit on that piece of plywood and the plywood will be exposed. How do I properly cover that plywood?

By having the piece of marble custom fabricated to fit. It will be relieved on one side to fit over the flooring.

I’ve been told that can’t be done because the marble can crack

Can I see a picture?

The picture won't post I will try again later.

Thanks!

This was oak stained to match the floor

Palimpsest's photo is what we considered custom ordering in marble. For our case I think the wood was a better fit in the end, but we had left a much smaller gap between the tile and the wood based on our original plan to use t-molding. And yes, unfortunately saddles are often unavoidable in older homes--even if we'd tiled directly on our subfloor (which would have been a bad idea for many reasons) we'd have ended up with a slightly higher floor in the bathroom. The best you can do is get the heights as close as you reasonably can and then figure out good ways to step down to the lower flooring.

I don't know what a saddle is, but it insinuates "going over to straddle" the 2 finishes. So a "T" or "overlap edge" transition. That is not necessary when 2 hard surfaces meet.

Your transition can be 2 pieces:

- a flush marble transition that stops at around the middle of the door slab, grouted.

- a butt edge reducer, which will be a custom milled piece of wood (easily done on site with a table saw) that either has an 1/8" step at the wood floor or flush depending if you remove some wood floor, and meets up flush to the marble transition. This reducer will span between the front edge of jamb to the marble piece. The plywood underlayment and Ditra can be cut back.

A saddle is just a trim piece that joins two flooring surfaces of uneven heights. It can be flush on one side or stepped on both sides, depending on preference. Ours is flush with the tile and then slopes down to meet the adjacent wood. The challenge is that the stock transition pieces come in certain sizes so if your floor gap is a different size, you need a custom piece. Our carpenter ripped one from wood pretty quickly but doing it from stone is more involved. To be flush on both sides with no slope, the flooring has to be the same height, which isn’t always possible.

Here is one of mine. Both bathrooms, and one bedroom, because it had slighly thicker flooring required one.

In my old bathroom the bathroom floor was flat and level, but the hallway was not, (house 1840) so the threshold also varied slightly in thickness from left to right.

These do not overlap the tile. They are set in with screws inset in a brass collar.