How To Join Laminate Flooring To Ceramic Tile

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How to join laminate flooring to ceramic tile.

Stone or tile can stand up to moisture and mud tracked in from outside but hardwood is still the most popular flooring material for the rest of the house. The hardwood strip is unfinished and can be stained to match the color of the laminate flooring. Ceramic tile floors tend to be higher than laminate floors because tile is installed over cement board while laminate usually lies over a thin foam underlayment. Wood flooring including laminate flooring is more predictable.

Apply the thinset with a trowel to seal between placement of the tiles. The answer to height differences is to use a floor transition strip that ramps up or down from tile flooring to wood flooring. Store your laminate floor closed in the packaging and flat on the ground in the room of installation. Only when the correct site conditions are met can you acclimatise laminate flooring.

Most manufacturers will insist on 48hrs acclimatisation but read the instructions to ensure you have the correct time period. Trim the multi purpose reducer strip to fit level against both the laminate surface and the tile surface using a circular saw or hand saw. Transfer the measurement to the transition strip and cut it to size with a handsaw. Entryways are a common area where we find ourselves wanting to change flooring.

The adjustable transition strips are ideal when there is a height difference between the laminate and the ceramic tile flooring. Subflooring underlayment and the wood flooring itself all contribute to make a single height surface. All you have to do is to install the transition by using our guidelines and then to tap it with a mallet until it fits perfectly. Press the next tile into place against the first.

Initially apply to the exposed edges of the first tile. This transition strip is designed for joining a laminate floor to a tile floor. The tile surface will be lower than the laminate surface.