Solid Hardwood, Engineered and Laminate Flooring - Adding new Hardwood to old hardwood
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Arastar
02-25-06, 06:02 AM
Hi all and thanks in advance for any information that may help my situation.
I'll do my best to describe my problem. If pictures will help, I'll need to know how to get them uploaded or I can email some.
I have a split level entry house. The living room/dining room combo has carpet with beautiful hardwood floor under that I plan to expose and refinish.
Some years ago the previous owners put an addition on the back of the house. This "new" room is accessed from a standard sized door in the kitchen (next to dining room) and from the dining room with an 8' wide opening. Currently the kitchen and addition have sheet linoleum.
My plan is to put down new hardwood floor in these two rooms and bring it right to the dining room entrance and into the kitchen. Seemingly no problem until I lifted the rug a bit to look at the floor at this 8' entrance.
It seems when the builders put the addition on they had to cut back the old hardwood floor to expose the sub floor to install cross beams for the floor in the addition. They replaced it with a simple 1" X 8" piece of pine (or the like).
Of course I want to make everything look neat and in order. I had planned on running the new floor just to the large entrance to the dining room, put down a nice piece of threshold and end it there. Since they cut into the old floor it means that I'd need to run the new floor (darker color) 10 - 12" into the dining room. I feel this will just look odd.
I'm not sure what to do in this situation. Hopefully I've explained it well enough.
Thanks again for help and if you need more info...just ask.
Arastar
I'll do my best to describe my problem. If pictures will help, I'll need to know how to get them uploaded or I can email some.
I have a split level entry house. The living room/dining room combo has carpet with beautiful hardwood floor under that I plan to expose and refinish.
Some years ago the previous owners put an addition on the back of the house. This "new" room is accessed from a standard sized door in the kitchen (next to dining room) and from the dining room with an 8' wide opening. Currently the kitchen and addition have sheet linoleum.
My plan is to put down new hardwood floor in these two rooms and bring it right to the dining room entrance and into the kitchen. Seemingly no problem until I lifted the rug a bit to look at the floor at this 8' entrance.
It seems when the builders put the addition on they had to cut back the old hardwood floor to expose the sub floor to install cross beams for the floor in the addition. They replaced it with a simple 1" X 8" piece of pine (or the like).
Of course I want to make everything look neat and in order. I had planned on running the new floor just to the large entrance to the dining room, put down a nice piece of threshold and end it there. Since they cut into the old floor it means that I'd need to run the new floor (darker color) 10 - 12" into the dining room. I feel this will just look odd.
I'm not sure what to do in this situation. Hopefully I've explained it well enough.
Thanks again for help and if you need more info...just ask.
Arastar