Looking for suggestions

[DonB]

I'm at the point in my oddball kitchen where I need to make the transition out to carpet. This is the highest traffic spot in the entire house. As you see it's an odd angle which requires cuts.

My best plan so far is lay tile and make my cut line parallel to the metal strip while leaving an approximate 3½" strip of bare slab in between. To fill this space, make the transition and cover the edges, use a 4¾" x ¾" plank of hardwood flooring. The plank to retain close to full thickness over the bare slab area for direct glue down to slab while machining the longitudinal edges thinner so they lap over and protect the cut tile line and hide the metal carpet strip. Are you picturing my idea?

Anyone have any better ideas on how to smoothly make this transition? I'm open to suggestions. How would you handle it?

Thanks,
Don

[Danny Ferguson]

Hey Don,


Thats to much trouble. Schluter makes a insert called Rondec or Reno U that would work great up next to glue down cpt. Remove the metal strip, and check out the transition on the Schluter site.

Danny

[JTG]

Don
The Schluter Reno-V not Reno-U It is what you want.
JTG

[tileguynky]

Don, most new construction around here that has carpet on a slab with tile gets an A100 (orA80 depending on how thick the tile is) from Schluter. If you want something to tuck some carpet under, the Reno TK series might do.

[DonB]

Thanks guys. From looking at the drawings I'm not seeing how any of them will do what I would need it to do. That being cover and protect the cut edge of the tile while clamping down the carpet. I don't want to use tack strip. Also, I can't locate any pricing anywhere. Any idea how much per foot these things cost? If one would actually work it would save me an hour or so of woodworking time and maybe provide a more reliable installation.

Don

[Danny Ferguson]

Hey Don,

If your not going to use the Schluter transitions, buy a pcs of 11/2" flat metal. Mark your holes, drill some holes in the concrete, put some wooden dowls in, and nail down the flat metal. Cost is about $1 lnft for metal. You wont have to use tackstrip or remove the metal psc holding the cpt. My opinion is that looks like cheap. I would use the Schluter, and hire a cpt guy to tuck the cpt to the Schluter metal.

Danny

[Theoderik]

I wouldn't use anything. I'd tuck the carpet against the tile. Throw a tack strip right under the carpet 1/4" away from the edge of the tile. Then the edge of your carpet gets stuck into that gap. I HATE metal strips of anykind like that as a trasition. Definately get rid of the roll-bar type that clamps onto the carpet. That looks worse than anything.

sw (shawn)

[DonB]

Shawn,

I hate metal on the floor, too. The method you describe is exactly how I did the transition between carpet and tile in the opening to the master bath area and at the closet doorway. I'm just a little worried about doing that here due to the amount of traffic, including three big dogs, but there really isn't any reason why it shouldn't hold up. It's definitely the cleanest way to handle it especially since I can use my diamond tools to relieve the cut edge of the tile so it's not sharp and looks good.

I built a hardwood transition similar to what I describe above in the doorway of the other bathroom. It covered the gap between full tiles and carpeting. I left the metal carpet clamp but used the threshold to hide it.

Don

[Rd Tile]

What Shawn said.