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Our door frames are about 135mm deep. We're having 35mm-depth doors fitted and we want the threshold to be hidden underneath the door.
We currently have our finished wood floor running about 40/50mm into the doorframe (this is screwed down into place, not glued), and we're having our carpet re-cut and fitted to be about 10/20mm into the door frame on the other side.
This will leave us with a gap of 40/50mm between the carpet end and the wood floor end. This is too wide for a standard wood-to-carpet threshold.
Our current plan is to use some of the leftover wood flooring to fill the gap and put a threshold in to cover the now-smaller gap.
My questions:
A) If we were to glue our gap-filling wood floor planks into place next to the screwed flooring, would this cause any problems in the future with movement / cracking / expansion?
B) Do we have to have a threshold between these at all? I've seen some examples where it looks nice (and some like this which is likely what ours might look like) without but I'm not sure our carpet or wood will be fitted square enough. What considerations might we need?
C) With our wood floor already being finished (sealed & lacquered), would sealing & lacquering the new gap-filling wood planks before installing them effectively break the complete seal of our floors?
Picture below; thank you!
We currently have our finished wood floor running about 40/50mm into the doorframe (this is screwed down into place, not glued), and we're having our carpet re-cut and fitted to be about 10/20mm into the door frame on the other side.
This will leave us with a gap of 40/50mm between the carpet end and the wood floor end. This is too wide for a standard wood-to-carpet threshold.
Our current plan is to use some of the leftover wood flooring to fill the gap and put a threshold in to cover the now-smaller gap.
My questions:
A) If we were to glue our gap-filling wood floor planks into place next to the screwed flooring, would this cause any problems in the future with movement / cracking / expansion?
B) Do we have to have a threshold between these at all? I've seen some examples where it looks nice (and some like this which is likely what ours might look like) without but I'm not sure our carpet or wood will be fitted square enough. What considerations might we need?
C) With our wood floor already being finished (sealed & lacquered), would sealing & lacquering the new gap-filling wood planks before installing them effectively break the complete seal of our floors?
Picture below; thank you!
