Flooring Tile - Joining floors of different heights

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Luthar28
07-20-04, 09:52 PM
I just redid my bathroom with ceramic tile. Because I had to add 3/4 plywood, plus the height of the tile itself, I have a difference in heights between the bathroom floor and the wooden hallway floor.

How do I connect them? The local Home Depot has metal or wood strips (reducers, I think they're called??) but quite simply they don't reduce enough. I have about a 1/2 difference in floor heights.

Daniel Wachtel
07-22-04, 03:45 PM
Go to a real lumber yard and tell them what you need. If they don't have it in stock they can make it.
floorman
07-22-04, 07:40 PM
There is something called a variable threshold that will take care of this transition just fine.It has a rabbet on the back end of it that will sit on top the tile and the other side is around a 1/2 taller than the back so it will sit on the floor it's a toe stubber but i don't think you have any options in this case .Maybe you can find something that will reduce down but it will be hard to find and like daniel says you may have to have one made :cool: