Wide door threshold ideas

DublinDilbert

Hi all,

I have a wide door threshold (165mm) which currently has a very old saddle board with tiles on one side and carpet on the other. See attached pic. There is also a height difference with the tiles.

I'd like to eliminate the problem and re-tile the floor but that isn't an option, also none of the current tiles are available to re-do the last row. So all I can think of is using 150mm chamfered skirting flat as a saddle board and scribe what would be the bottom of the skirting over the tile edge.

Has anyone ever had to solve this before? Any ideas?

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C. Eastwood

DublinDilbert

you have 3 materials- carpet, timber saddle and ceramic tiles.

I think you want to reduce this to 2

first remove the saddle and one option is to get tiles similar to the existing tiles and fit them to replace the saddle.

when the saddle is removed- you will have a better idea.

you could paint the saddle to a similar colour of the tiles - and see how does this look

A Threshold was to hold the thresh of straw covering the Earth floor and to stop the straw from being dragged out the door by persons feet, when they were going out.

DublinDilbert

Thanks, yea as you said ideally I'd like to go to two. If I could find similar 30cm tiles I would replace the front row and move the carpet bar 1cm, which would be best.

My problem is finding beige / cream non slip tiles that match. They are the only ones in the house I don't have spares of.

My architrave idea was mainly just a stop gap measure, which from the outside of the room would look like a dood saddle. It would only be the same size as the existing.

I guess I need to call into some old school tile shops and see if they have anything that would match the floor tile.

jack of all

I thibk C.Eastwood has summed up your options quite well. Unless youcan get an exact tile match why bother removing the existing saddle? I think sanding the existing and refinishing in a cream floor paint would be very effective. If you do opt to replace the existing saddle you might need to source something better than a standard pine/ deal/ whitewood skirting replacement which will probably not be very resitant to foot traffic

DublinDilbert

Hi thanks, yea I did consider that with the skirting approach. Ideally I would use a hard wood and put a chamfer on it. The other thing I wanted to achieve was trying to smooth out the level changes/transitions.

I like in hotels where they use a piece of marble or quartz with a little chamfer on it.

One option might be to use a half saddle and bond on some hardwood timber, then sand and finish it.

Thanks again

C. Eastwood

Dublindilbert

What the door of a room is closed, approx 50 mm (2cm) of the saddle is visible in the room. This is the norm and is accepted

I would not cut the carpet back. When the door is closed too much tile would be visible.

Lumen

Can you not just butt the high side of chamfered skirting against the tiles, with a grout-width gap for flexible filler colour matched to the grout?

That'll sort the height difference.

DublinDilbert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118918149#Comment_118918149

I don't think I explained correctly, on option was going to extend the carpet towards the door (but not past it) by about 50mm and move the gripper bar. The carpet is due to be changed anyway, so moving the gripper bar is easy.

DublinDilbert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118924475#Comment_118924475

Yes that was my thinking bring the skirting to meet the tiles. If there's any slightly height difference run the plane along the edge of the skirting, which would probably add strength and stop anything catching the edge, like the V-groove in a laminate floor.

Chamfered skirting is so cheap anyway, it would be worth a try even if it had to be replaced at some point. If it was treated probably it would probably be ok for a few years. The whole floor will get re-tiled at some point anyway so it is really just a stop gap measure.

maestroamado

I have a wooden ash floor and an ash solid wooden floor... basically buy a 20mm planed and shape it to fit... we made it into a saddle... you can tweak any way you want...

e.r

Split the saddle down the middle halfway under the door.

then you can finish your new tiles in correct position, finish with correct trim detail.

then when your ready to Replace the carpet do the same on that side.

DublinDilbert

Just to follow up on this, I got some wood effect tiles and made new door saddles. I notched the architrave and door stop. For the cost of two tiles it’s a big improvement.

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maestroamado

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104726#Comment_119104726

That's pretty much the same as what was done in my case...