Tile Meets Hardwood

Transitioning a bathroom s tile floor to the hardwood of another room is often given little forethought.

Tile meets hardwood.

The look is finished off with a sharp consistent grout line to create a classic finish without the use of fancy. Will it look to chopped up. Wood floor will be about 1 8 in. 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.

I want to run a single course parallel with tile which will be 13 feet and then butt the floor to this. The opening to kitchen is 40. When the tiles are thinner than the hardwood however a reducing strip is a. I have tile in the entire house but would like to put hardword in a very small kitchen.

This strip can either meet the tile floor directly or can have a lip over style. A single transition strip that acts as a ramp from the lower hardwood floor to the higher tile floor. There will be unlimited scenarios with matching any new hardwood floor to an existing tiled area. Let s use the example of 3 8 inch which is a common grout joint spacing for ceramic tile.

Would that look ok since the kitchen is small. Anytime a hardwood edge meets a tile edge this small crack will not only be natural but necessary to achieve a smooth transition. When transitioning to ceramic tile for example you could leave a gap between the hardwood and the tile and grout it. Gap between it and the tile for the t mold to fit into.

While these slate hexagonal tiles might seem new the method in which they meet the hardwood flooring is not. The most common method and one you ve probably used countless times before is the tuck in carpet transition to tile. But when tile and carpet meet there number of tile to carpet transition options increases. The segment also focuses on not using the more common t molding to transition the two areas.

Considering solid hardwood flooring does expand and contract during seasonal changes or fluctuations in relative humidity many installers will provide a gap between the stone or tile that matches the grout joint spacing. 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. The floor will be perpendicular to the joists. The video segment below looks at removing an older vinyl floor in a great room area that also had carpeting.

Match hardwood floor with tile height. Below entryway tile floor.