How To Fix Uneven Floor Transition

It s essentially a transition piece placed between the two floors inside a door jamb to prevent a lip or edge.

How to fix uneven floor transition.

Be sure to watch our master class vi. How to install transition strips. The uneven floors can cause people to trip or stub their toes on these surfaces. Installing a transition strip should only take an hour or so to do.

Where one floor meets another type of flooring you will have to install some sort of transition piece. A transition strip is a simple piece of wood or metal that can bridge the gap between two uneven floors. In this video we show you how to transition between different floor heights from tile floor to wood floor installations. The leg of the t doesn t touch the floor.

Transition strips do not bottom out. The strip is supported on both sides by the lips and held in place with nails. Thresholds between two uneven wood floors are nothing more than tapered hardwood. A typical 4 in 1 transition includes a metal channel for mounting the system with a t molding which fits into the channel and is used alone if you are joining floors that are the same height.

A 4 in 1 transition strip is the swiss army knife type of transition strip with interchangeable parts that work for different types of floors. T molding transition strips have two lips to cover the edges of both surfaces when flooring products differ no more than about 3 8 inch in height. This will help you cover the gap and make it a smoother transition from one floor to the next. In this tutorial we show you how to join floors of both equal and unequal heights together with oak transition strips.