How To Level Two Different Floor Heights

If you are dealing with two different types of floor coverings a transition strip is almost always required.

How to level two different floor heights.

If you have a timber floor it will need 6mm ply and the floor covering is only 2 8mm if you have a concrete floor it will nedd latexing which is ony a couple of mm. The problem now is that with only the subfloor down at this stage the kitchen is the same height as the adjacent dining room and hallway which have hardwood floors. This level wouldn t match the rest of the house. The differences in height between the two adjoining floors is typically not more than 1 2 inch at most.

One way to bridge the gap between two materials is with a t strip named so because of its form. You can deal with it easy enough using a belt sander and a piece of matching hardwood. Each material needs some kind of finish along its edge and different materials often create a change in floor height as well as changes in underfoot characteristics for example soft yielding carpet transitioning to cold rigid tile. This means that no matter what we add to the kitchen floor the height will be significantly different higher than adjoining rooms.

To make this worse the difference across the room between the two rooms is 30mm different at one end 10mm different in the middle and 20mm different at the other end. Plus ceramic tile in 2 areas is same height as the high room. The vertical section of the material slips down into the gap between the two different floors and the horizontal section lies horizontally across the top of each material to each side and hides the transition. Or leave tile and pour over all the area fresh concrete to level the whole area.

I just want a matching floor without tripping hazards.