Tile to wood floor threshold question

[SeattleDIY]

I have searched this site and found some helpful info on this topic, but nothing I've gotten excited about.

Our newly tiled bathroom floor will meet up with the oak hardwood hallway, albeit a bit higher. Currently, we have carpet over the hardwood, but we will remove the carpet someday. Having the tile meet the carpet is easy...that's not the problem. We need to know how to handle the eventual tile to hardwood transition. Is this something we should plan for now or just wait until we remove the carpet? We bought one of those Schluter metal transitions, but I don't think that is what we need. Any advice is much appreciated.

I've attached pictures. Any you have would be much appreciated as I am having a hard time visualizing this threshold.

--Heather

P.S. We're not marble/corian people

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[kevin n.]

You'd eventually need a reducer strip or a baby threshold. Both are made of oak and can easily be found at a harwood flooring supply store. You may have to sand down the reducer to have less of a difference in height. You may even want to use it now to cover the transition from tile to carpet. Just use several screws and use filler to cover the screw holes so you can easily unscrew the reducer or threshold and reuse.

[scott anthony]

It looks like you hardly have any screws in your board. Looks like it's been thin set though. Am I wrong?

[1Eric]

I would go with the baby threshold route if it were me. You can tuck your carpet to it until you take it out( the carpet) and if your layout won't allow you to keep the full tile in the doorway like you are showing it will cover the cut edge.

[SeattleDIY]

Yes, we have all the screws in all the right places. I just put those example tiles right over the top of them...just checkin' to see if you were paying attention. :lol2:

Thanks for the baby threshold idea. I'll head to iFloor next week to check 'em out.

Regarding the tile placement, we can have a full tile at the door and end with 4/5 of a cut tile on the other wall, or should we start with the 4/5 cut tile and end the opposite wall with the full tile? We thought it would be best to see the full tile first.

Thanks!

[Mike2]

Hi Heather.

Of those two choices I'd begin with the full tile at the door. Alternatively, center the tile across the floor with 9/10's at each end. :)