You should change the name of your channel to "How to fuck up a house" instead of fix this house. Tile the closet with the same tile you used in the bathroom instead of using all that crap. Next time, learn to measure properly.
Great advice. I generally use 1 layer of the white roll underlayment for Pergo type floors under the last board and a half so it transitions it about 1/16" safely and not noticeably. That little height always helps the transitions more than you realize. My hardest transitions are going from Vinyl Plank to tile floors that have underlayment and heated floors because the heated floor material is trowelled with tile adhesive into the floor so it makes the tile sit even higher. I have a 3/4" gap I have to deal with tomorrow and a few 1/2" seems. Have a nice day.
Best option, which you see in common custom homes you can just raise the floor by cutting plywood to fit you room depending on the size of the room and doesn't add to much weight and allows any load to be controlled also allows the tile guys to do a flush finish edge or a I channel finish so you can finish it clean.
This works nice enough, but I prefer to use the thresholds that match the LVP flooring. I just simple think it looks nicer so strictly preference. Ty for sharing. 😊
👍The double sided tape is nice, allows you to try it out, then glue it later if you are happy with it. You can cut aluminum with a table or miter saw if you don't want to dig the angle grinder out.
For a small area like a cupboard i would of raised the vinyl plank with some constrcution ply rather than have that high of a drop or use an mdf ramp to taper it up (they come premade for correct slope for this kind of applictaion.) Nothing wrong with this video's solution, just giving a couple of alternatives.
Looks good and a good decline to avoid tripping or stubbing toe. I would put e small drop of silicone on the plank floor. The silicone moves slightly and I don’t believe the floor shifts that much if the temp and humidity is controlled. The 3 or 4 dabs of silicone will feel like the transition piece is solid rather that potentially sounding tinny or metal like. Kinda like rubber bumper stops on cupboards.
I think you made the right choice...but maybe could notch out the tile side of door jam. Would give it a much cleaner look, plus the jam would give some backing so it couldnt slide in toward closet. 🙏❤😊
Install transition reducer that matches vinyl flooring and rip 5/8 ripped strip of vinyl to add in front and other 5/8 plywood strip to support the reducer at proper height. That would looks better. I think
Everything was good except for the construction adhesive. For the other materials mentioned you could use another gorilla product, their double sided tape. Way easier if you ever need to room the threshold.
Over time water is eventually going to get under there and effect the glue, should have done a bead of silicone to water proof it. Did you think of just raising the floor in the garage with some plywood and then put the vinyl flooring over that to match the same height of the tile.
So this is an issue I have in a couple places.. not the height.. but the gap. I didn't quite get the right number of planks to leave about 1/2" or so gap between the tile and the laminate floor. In some areas I have about 2".. which is WAY too big for just the transition piece. I thought cutting down another plank to about 1.5" would look stupid/wrong/bad because you'd see a very small amount of the plank past the transition piece. Is that not a big deal in the case that you have a little bit too wide a gap? I dont know how else to fix it short of pulling up the entire floor and making the back piece a bit bigger (I originally cut it in half because I had lined up the 17 or so rows to see if it would butt up against the tile at the transition point and it looked like it would.. apparently I was off by a couple inches). The other issue is.. do I cut a 1.2" or so piece of plank and glue it in to the one that is the last full plank row so its not loose? I feel like a 1.5" or so will be too narrow to provide stability if stepped on. So I was going to use tightbond 3 to glue the tongue/groove together. Then put the transition channel down and pop the transition in place.
The cleanest looking hack solution is still a hack solution. The look is completely random. Always try to use one of either flooring materials to transition before resorting to this.
Would never use this in my own house. 3 different materials all in one small area.....very bad look and makes it look hackish. I would have custom made it and used the same flooring material to make it look intentional rather than an oversight.
With such a thin strip, why not use the inch & a quarter strip, instead of the 4" pc. 🤔 I would have splurged on the TS that the flooring company makes so it at least matches something, they're expensive,but TETO. 👍🏼
Anyone who uses these transition pieces is a lazy installer, my brother in law whose been installing floors for 20+ years always has a good laugh when he sees these installed. He says the best way of doing a transition in a doorway so it doesn't look ugly is to not install any tile/flooring in the doorway, then you cut a piece of flooring, say 4" x 30" so it fits in the empty spot. Now you basically have to turn this piece into a ramp so it goes from the low spot to the high spot, you cut thinner pieces of flooring and put it near the high spot so when you put the finished piece on top it'll go from the low spot to the high spot and wont rock back and forth. Yes you need to spend more time on this, yes you need to secure these thinner pieces to the osb, yes there's lots of trial and error, but the end result looks amazing. I have six of these transitions in my house and five are on the main floor, no one has ever noticed them even though my kitchen tile is 1/2" higher than the hardwood.
19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and [a]fared sumptuously every day. 20 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, 21 desiring to be fed with [b]the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ 27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ” Luke 16:19-31 10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (YHVH, El Shaddai, Adonai, God of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham). John 3:10-18
The tile job needs to improve. It seems you didn't go under the door jams. Transition should also go under the door jams. It will collect dirt and debris at the ends. Do better!
Hmm. Not a big fan of any of those. The one you used seems like your best option. FWIW, you can "help" the edge of that tile if you cannot cover it up.
Bad camera angle as is looks like a much steeper angle than it is. Not saying that the floors weren’t installed incorrectly. Either tile or floating whatever. Overall ty for something even though I believe it’s useless if you ever wanna sell that house to someone else.
The whole situation is not acceptable. A space with water has higher elevation than the rest of the area. Just think about a leak, where will the water go? No good, I would not approve. The elevation is the main problem and it should be fixed. Now there are only bad choices to choose from. The second thing is that these wide strips always make me think this, that they are hiding some bigger problems. Wide strips are made for covering up big mistakes made earlier. No good. The wide strips also look bad in my opinion. There is no good solution for that very bad situation. In most European countries that would also not pass construction inspection and rightly so. This is a water damage waiting to happen.
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You should change the name of your channel to "How to fuck up a house" instead of fix this house.
Tile the closet with the same tile you used in the bathroom instead of using all that crap. Next time, learn to measure properly.
Great advice. I generally use 1 layer of the white roll underlayment for Pergo type floors under the last board and a half so it transitions it about 1/16" safely and not noticeably. That little height always helps the transitions more than you realize. My hardest transitions are going from Vinyl Plank to tile floors that have underlayment and heated floors because the heated floor material is trowelled with tile adhesive into the floor so it makes the tile sit even higher. I have a 3/4" gap I have to deal with tomorrow and a few 1/2" seems. Have a nice day.
Best option, which you see in common custom homes you can just raise the floor by cutting plywood to fit you room depending on the size of the room and doesn't add to much weight and allows any load to be controlled also allows the tile guys to do a flush finish edge or a I channel finish so you can finish it clean.
This works nice enough, but I prefer to use the thresholds that match the LVP flooring. I just simple think it looks nicer so strictly preference. Ty for sharing. 😊
👍The double sided tape is nice, allows you to try it out, then glue it later if you are happy with it.
You can cut aluminum with a table or miter saw if you don't want to dig the angle grinder out.
Thank you for sharing your technique! Yes miter saw will give it that clean cut! 🙏🏽😊👍🏽
I think people saying the materials don’t match are missing the part where he shows the black metal trim and accents all throughout the bathroom 🤦♂️
Probably the best choice, doesn’t look very nice but if there’s nothing else on the market.
Best idea for a difficult situation.
laziest idea imo
Looks good but I would anchor that down with 3 screws by counter sunk it down. I dont know the longevity of a tack strip on a high traffic area.
For a small area like a cupboard i would of raised the vinyl plank with some constrcution ply rather than have that high of a drop or use an mdf ramp to taper it up (they come premade for correct slope for this kind of applictaion.) Nothing wrong with this video's solution, just giving a couple of alternatives.
Looks good and a good decline to avoid tripping or stubbing toe. I would put e small drop of silicone on the plank floor. The silicone moves slightly and I don’t believe the floor shifts that much if the temp and humidity is controlled. The 3 or 4 dabs of silicone will feel like the transition piece is solid rather that potentially sounding tinny or metal like. Kinda like rubber bumper stops on cupboards.
I think you made the right choice...but maybe could notch out the tile side of door jam. Would give it a much cleaner look, plus the jam would give some backing so it couldnt slide in toward closet. 🙏❤😊
Thanks for this information. In the near future I will be needing a transition strip for transition from hardwood floor to floating vinyl.
Install transition reducer that matches vinyl flooring and rip 5/8 ripped strip of vinyl to add in front and other 5/8 plywood strip to support the reducer at proper height. That would looks better. I think
Nice job , it's all in the details 🎉
Thank you so much! 🙏🏽😊
The wide piece had the most gradual rise making it easier to walk over.
I agree! 👍🏽😊
Everything was good except for the construction adhesive. For the other materials mentioned you could use another gorilla product, their double sided tape. Way easier if you ever need to room the threshold.
Over time water is eventually going to get under there and effect the glue, should have done a bead of silicone to water proof it.
Did you think of just raising the floor in the garage with some plywood and then put the vinyl flooring over that to match the same height of the tile.
That is a great idea! Thank you for sharing. The other side is a walk in closet. 😅
So this is an issue I have in a couple places.. not the height.. but the gap. I didn't quite get the right number of planks to leave about 1/2" or so gap between the tile and the laminate floor. In some areas I have about 2".. which is WAY too big for just the transition piece. I thought cutting down another plank to about 1.5" would look stupid/wrong/bad because you'd see a very small amount of the plank past the transition piece. Is that not a big deal in the case that you have a little bit too wide a gap? I dont know how else to fix it short of pulling up the entire floor and making the back piece a bit bigger (I originally cut it in half because I had lined up the 17 or so rows to see if it would butt up against the tile at the transition point and it looked like it would.. apparently I was off by a couple inches). The other issue is.. do I cut a 1.2" or so piece of plank and glue it in to the one that is the last full plank row so its not loose? I feel like a 1.5" or so will be too narrow to provide stability if stepped on. So I was going to use tightbond 3 to glue the tongue/groove together. Then put the transition channel down and pop the transition in place.
I think I would prefer a granite or marble saddle
good work it worked out well nice and clean transition 😊
Thanks for the video! Something I need to do!
I’m glad I could be of help! 👍🏽🙏🏽😊
Since it was just a walk-in closet…(no too many square feet) …why didn’t you lay down some plywood subfloor to raise it closer to the tile ?
Awesome work...
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
The cleanest looking hack solution is still a hack solution. The look is completely random. Always try to use one of either flooring materials to transition before resorting to this.
Looks nice. Thanks for sharing
nice finish very simple
Why didn't you just add a layer of plywood or osb before you put down the vinyl flooring? The transition would have been minimal.
You do good work.
What do you do with both floors are floating floors? How do you secure the transition strip?
Use click on. Track type
Snapping track between both.
Why didn't you do the comparisons with the finished flooring piece in place? Then you'd have the 3/4" difference vs the full 1".
Would never use this in my own house. 3 different materials all in one small area.....very bad look and makes it look hackish. I would have custom made it and used the same flooring material to make it look intentional rather than an oversight.
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Cut Porcelain Tile In 35 Degree.
Amén.
The lower floor should have been built up by adding plywood underneath
Very helpful
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Nice choice 😃
That is amazing 😊
With such a thin strip, why not use the inch & a quarter strip, instead of the 4" pc. 🤔
I would have splurged on the TS that the flooring company makes so it at least matches something, they're expensive,but TETO. 👍🏼
Anyone who uses these transition pieces is a lazy installer, my brother in law whose been installing floors for 20+ years always has a good laugh when he sees these installed.
He says the best way of doing a transition in a doorway so it doesn't look ugly is to not install any tile/flooring in the doorway, then you cut a piece of flooring, say 4" x 30" so it fits in the empty spot. Now you basically have to turn this piece into a ramp so it goes from the low spot to the high spot, you cut thinner pieces of flooring and put it near the high spot so when you put the finished piece on top it'll go from the low spot to the high spot and wont rock back and forth. Yes you need to spend more time on this, yes you need to secure these thinner pieces to the osb, yes there's lots of trial and error, but the end result looks amazing. I have six of these transitions in my house and five are on the main floor, no one has ever noticed them even though my kitchen tile is 1/2" higher than the hardwood.
Thank you.
I would have used something lest wide
Get a stair nose to match the floor and shave the end it will look way better
Not bloody bad
Bello!
19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and [a]fared sumptuously every day. 20 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, 21 desiring to be fed with [b]the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ 27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ” Luke 16:19-31
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (YHVH, El Shaddai, Adonai, God of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham). John 3:10-18
I don't think I would have used that
That fix not fly on california codes, 😂😂😂
The tile job needs to improve. It seems you didn't go under the door jams. Transition should also go under the door jams. It will collect dirt and debris at the ends. Do better!
❤🎉
Hmm. Not a big fan of any of those. The one you used seems like your best option.
FWIW, you can "help" the edge of that tile if you cannot cover it up.
Bad camera angle as is looks like a much steeper angle than it is. Not saying that the floors weren’t installed incorrectly. Either tile or floating whatever. Overall ty for something even though I believe it’s useless if you ever wanna sell that house to someone else.
Looks awful should match tile or wood or a finished metallic
That is so ugly!
The whole situation is not acceptable. A space with water has higher elevation than the rest of the area. Just think about a leak, where will the water go? No good, I would not approve. The elevation is the main problem and it should be fixed. Now there are only bad choices to choose from.
The second thing is that these wide strips always make me think this, that they are hiding some bigger problems. Wide strips are made for covering up big mistakes made earlier. No good. The wide strips also look bad in my opinion. There is no good solution for that very bad situation. In most European countries that would also not pass construction inspection and rightly so. This is a water damage waiting to happen.
The only decent way to do this is to rip up that god-awful plastic flooring and replace it with tiles or timber