Tile Meets Wood Floor

This strip can either meet the tile floor directly or can have a lip over style.

Tile meets wood floor.

This transition strip is designed for joining a laminate floor to a tile floor. When you are working in an area where you can control the when of the installation it is always. Pay attention to how hardwood meets a tile floor chances are your bathroom will have a tile floor but the hallway or room it s connected to will have something totally different like hardwood. Most of the floor framing in north america is designed to meet a base industry standard.

Whether the tile is in a bathroom kitchen or around a fireplace where the wood butts up to the tile there will be a grout line that needs to be filled. However not planning the transition can result in a final product that doesn t meet your expectations or a floor assembly that s destined to fail. The tile is butted right up to the floor end cap making any transition strips or t track unnecessary. In many cases where tile is used in a room it s located in the heart of the home or in an isolated space usually in the kitchen or bathroom.

The direction that the wood planks and tiles are laid makes this transition option even more attractive. Of particular interest is the feature board that was used to separate the tile and the hardwood floor. When to expect a grout gap in yourwood flooring project anytime a hardwood edge meets a tile edge this small crack will not only be natural but necessary to achieve a smooth transition. Transitioning a bathroom s tile floor to the hardwood of another room is often given little forethought.

Part of matching the tile to the wood floor is ensuring that the thickness of the. The transition between these two spaces and materials is something that s tough to get right. A single transition strip that acts as a ramp from the lower hardwood floor to the higher tile floor. This transition strip features molding with offset grooves to match the differing thicknesses of the flooring.

How to install tile to match wood floor wood before tile. Both the tile and wood are run lengthwise through the rooms only broken up by the end cap. This also involved installing the tile first. The hardwood strip is unfinished and can be stained to match the color of the laminate flooring.

The end cap blends in without being distracting. 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. A template was made and five pieces of flooring were scribed to match the radius of the separation. The tile radius was cut out with a jig.