DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:55 am  

Hi,

Just had a new bathroom suite fitted whcih included tiling the floor. The tiles were laid onto 12mm plywood.

The problem I now have is there is approx a 20mm difference in height between the bathroom and the carpet landing.

Having looked online, I cannot see any Z trims that accomodate that height - can anyone advise somewhere that does something of this size, or reccommend alternative methods of 'bridging the gap'

Ta!

Re: DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:16 am  

In a dining room I had a similar problem when I laid reclaimed parquet onto an existing tiled floor because I didn't want to damage the existing screed and membrane barrier beneath the tiles.
We sloped the threshold of the door out into the adjoining hall.
Ditto with the threshold of the door from the dining room out into the kitchen.
There is a noticeable tongue of parquet at the bottom of each door when you examine it from outside the room but, to be honest, because it's a neatly finished slope of nice-looking parquet and those doors are mostly left open anyway, no-one really notices.

Re: DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:35 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

In a dining room I had a similar problem when I laid reclaimed parquet onto an existing tiled floor because I didn't want to damage the existing screed and membrane barrier beneath the tiles.
We sloped the threshold of the door out into the adjoining hall.
Ditto with the threshold of the door from the dining room out into the kitchen.
There is a noticeable tongue of parquet at the bottom of each door when you examine it from outside the room but, to be honest, because it's a neatly finished slope of nice-looking parquet and those doors are mostly left open anyway, no-one really notices.

We had a similar thing in a previous house with tiles from the conservatory being higher then the dining room (careless builder I suspect), the threshold was a planed piece of timber slightly wider than the door with an upwards slope, probably handmade rather than bought in B&Q but if you have a timberyard supplier nearby (we have ) then its the sort of thing that they could knock up in ten minutes, or I could do it and take all day and end up with a pile of firewood.

Re: DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:06 pm  

Develop one of my proudest skills: an ability to completely ignore such flaws (or should that be floors?).

Re: DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:36 pm  

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Re: DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:52 pm  

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Re: DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:02 pm  

Wilde 3 wrote: If they did that in chrome then it would have been perfect! Some suitable options on here?

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Re: DIY Advice : Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:18 pm  

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