We have about 60 sqm of floor space that needs to be covered with oak flooring. Kitchen, hallway, living room, and 2 bedrooms where the bedrooms are the only ones with interior doors. We didn’t plan to have any thresholds anywhere. Now the builder says we need to put trims, for example between the kitchen and living room, because the area will be too large and the floor will crack otherwise. I feel like the whole idea of having a unifying wooden floor everywhere disappears... What do we do?
We would be very grateful for help!!
Åsa
We would be very grateful for help!!
Åsa
If you can lay the floors with gaps up to say 5 millimeters between the different rooms, you can mask these gaps with a laminate tape strip. It is about 2 centimeters wide and matches the color of the floor. It is probably not a recommended approach, but I have used this tape to mask gaps between floors and moldings in an apartment I bought. I bought it at Fredells in Hammarby Sjöstad. Manufacturer Duriwood.
The tape strips are meant to be inserted into a joint strip, but they are very hard and durable and have excellent adhesive power, so if the floors are at the same height you can manage with them and get a threshold-free feel. http://www.duri.se/Privat.main?link=index_privat.jsp&nav=false&lang=sv_SE click on Products > Floor Moldings > Duri Wood > Insert.
I agree that a threshold-free home is worth its weight in gold.
The tape strips are meant to be inserted into a joint strip, but they are very hard and durable and have excellent adhesive power, so if the floors are at the same height you can manage with them and get a threshold-free feel. http://www.duri.se/Privat.main?link=index_privat.jsp&nav=false&lang=sv_SE click on Products > Floor Moldings > Duri Wood > Insert.
I agree that a threshold-free home is worth its weight in gold.
That sounds very smart, I'll have to find some duriwood and test it out.Fagerborn said:
I've tried all sorts of ways to get rid of thresholds and uneven surfaces at home since my girlfriend uses a wheelchair and is not a big fan of thresholds and edges
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I just have to mention that I have about 65 m2 (kitchen, dining room, and living room) of continuous flooring on the ground floor. I haven't experienced any problems with it (except during the installation which was a bit tricky). It's been in place for three years now on a concrete slab with underfloor heating.
My floor is a fully glued Rappgo floor, whole oak planks. How it works with glue-free floors, I don't know, but it should reasonably work too.
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My floor is a fully glued Rappgo floor, whole oak planks. How it works with glue-free floors, I don't know, but it should reasonably work too.
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I will install flooring in my apartment threshold-free. According to the floor layer, you should not lay larger areas than 12 meters in length in any direction. So it's fine to lay threshold-free if you stay under 12 meters. Just make sure to have movement allowance along the walls.