How To Install Metal Transition Floor

There is nothing worse than an awesome floor with a cheesy trans.

How to install metal transition floor.

Instead of agonizing over adjusting the entire height of one of the adjoining floors you can put in a transition strip and forget your worries. How to transition from one room to another room when installing laminate wood flooring. Installing a floating floor to a flush transition molding can potentially lead to buckling end joint peaking and squeaks later on. Transition strips are used to finish hardwood and laminate floor edges where the product meets an existing floor in a doorway and are typically cut to fit and then nailed in place or snapped into a track that has been screwed to the floor.

Transition strips are the very definition of an easy fix. 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. Installing transition strips is an often overlooked part of the installation of hard surface flooring. Dustin shows how to cut and install oak wooden thresholds for a new floor.

For step installations where the floating floor is glued down to the existing treads flush stair nosing if available can be used. Plan the flooring installation so that a 1 1 8 inch gap between the two floor coverings occurs between the stops on the doorjamb. Installation takes less than half an hour for most strips and a few installations can be accomplished in about fifteen minutes. How to install transition strips.

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. In this tutorial we show you how to join floors of both equal and unequal heights together with oak transition strips. These can finish off the edge of a floor and make the job look much more professional.