Renovator
· Västra Götaland
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Monday evening is spent pondering the ledge between the entrance and the living room. The reason the ledge is so deep is because it was once an exterior wall that became an extension. When I laid the tile floor, the pieces fit perfectly in the entrance, and I avoided a lot of scraps - but the floor also stopped right at the beginning of the ledge. The result? A huge gap between the entrance and the living room that no ready-made threshold in the world can fill (30 centimeters deep!). Moreover, there's a level difference in several layers. The hall floor is higher due to floor gypsum, underfloor heating, etc., then comes two thick joists that I can't possibly remove, and I also can't plane them down.
I see the following options:
Option 1: Either I let the living room floor extend a bit into the ledge and take the first level difference directly, meaning about 1.5 plank widths will slope. I can build up the floor from underneath, so there's really no danger for the floor. It's more the irritation factor over the floor just sloping there. (see picture)
Option 2: is to only extend a few centimeters with the living room floor and put a small level strip, then put another living room floor plank and then an oak threshold from that up onto the tile floor. I imagine it will look really odd though with two strips in the same step and with a floor plank in between. Illustrating where the living room floor would end, just before the joist that makes the first level difference:
Option 3 is to break the piggy bank and go buy more thresholds and build a kind of "mini staircase" with thresholds stacked on each other. That also feels insanely odd. The ledge is 30 cm deep, so with 3 90-thresholds it might work....
What would you do??
I see the following options:
Option 1: Either I let the living room floor extend a bit into the ledge and take the first level difference directly, meaning about 1.5 plank widths will slope. I can build up the floor from underneath, so there's really no danger for the floor. It's more the irritation factor over the floor just sloping there. (see picture)
Option 2: is to only extend a few centimeters with the living room floor and put a small level strip, then put another living room floor plank and then an oak threshold from that up onto the tile floor. I imagine it will look really odd though with two strips in the same step and with a floor plank in between. Illustrating where the living room floor would end, just before the joist that makes the first level difference:
Option 3 is to break the piggy bank and go buy more thresholds and build a kind of "mini staircase" with thresholds stacked on each other. That also feels insanely odd. The ledge is 30 cm deep, so with 3 90-thresholds it might work....
What would you do??
Buy an oak plank that is 35 cm wide and 0.5-1 cm thicker than the highest height difference.
Mill the height differences on the underside of the plank, trim the long sides.
My father did so in their previous house, although it was only 20 cm in the leap.
Mill the height differences on the underside of the plank, trim the long sides.
My father did so in their previous house, although it was only 20 cm in the leap.
I built a mini staircase with 3 levels at the entrance after changing the front door, it ends with an "outer corner list" (L-shaped) that goes over the tiled floor in the hallway.