- Hey everybody, Jeff here again.
And today we have another great video for you.
We're gonna show you how to do a very complicated,
installation of wood flooring here up against
an existing tile flooring at the bedroom door,
where the tile is crooked
and wasn't done properly by the builder.
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- So let's take a look down here at what we've got here.
So, we're at the last couple of rows here.
We probably got maybe let's see, one, two,
about 2 1/2 more rows to go of wood.
Now the wood's going at an angle like this, right.
So as it approaches the tile flooring here,
eventually we're gonna have to make it where
they all cut off straight like this
because this is your T-Molding piece
that is going to transition between the wood and the tile,
and it will rest across the two like this.
Now, here's the problem, do you see the issues here is like
there's no way it's gonna fit across this tile
because the builder left all sorts of stupid,
just jagged edges and everything.
They did a completely botched job here on tiling.
Not only that, to make things worse, if you look here.
When you put two different flooring types together under
a door and they end under a door,
you're supposed to end them right here at the door stop.
So, see this line right here?
That's actually where they should've ended the tile
and they should've ended it in a perfectly straight line
like that, that goes all the way across the door frame,
but they failed to do that.
So they just did it to wherever they wanted to,
they drilled a couple of holes in it
and they used to have a metal strip here.
So that's what this line is that you're seeing.
This metal strip went to the carpet that met up with it,
so we've ripped up the carpet,
we're putting in the wood floor,
and so eventually we'd sort of want it to go like this.
This is ideally where the wood surface should end.
However, the builder also gave us another problem too,
and we see this just way too common in houses.
So let me show you this real quick.
Okay, so coming from the,
this is entering into the bedroom here,
see there's the wood floor there.
When you enter into the bedroom,
normally, like I mentioned,
you want the floor to end right there,
so that when you close the door
you don't see it from the outside.
The problem is, look what the builder did.
They left this floor jacked up so high
there's like an inch and a half gap at the bottom of it.
And they did this with most of the doors in here.
So, even if we had ended it right at the doorstop there,
you can still see it.
So let me show you what's gonna happen,
if I put this T-Mold here,
and it ends right there,
look at that, see, even standing up,
the door's still above the T-Mold.
But anyway, you can see,
you'll still see the wood flooring
from outside the door if you close the door,
so that's a problem and that's the problem of the builders
making the doors up too high.
Had they had made it lower, you probably wouldn't notice it.
So, therefore we don't really wanna try to cut
this tile back all the way up to that doorstop.
So let me turn it around here.
And here we are again from the inside,
from the bedroom side looking at it.
So, you can see you don't wanna run any kind of the wood
or the T-Mold up to that point,
but we have another dilemma
because they have these holes here.
So we know at the very least,
we gotta cover the holes with the T-Mold.
So it looks to me like we're gonna be about a half inch back
because of what the builder did there,
so that's not too bad there.
So what we're gonna have to do here,
is mark a line going across there,
across the floor there, on the tile,
and then we're going to have to
cut that with the angle grinder.
And if you've never seen an angle grinder before,
this is what they look like.
It just spins at a high rate of speed
and there's a ceramic blade on there.
So we'll mark it and we'll just cut it all the way across.
The only problem is is look,
the blade can't go all the way to the edge,
so if you look, you're gonna be left
with about the last two inches from here to here
that you're gonna have to somehow chisel it yourself.
And it's okay if you get a little jagged edge
because the T-Mold will be sitting over it.
But the important point to keep in mind here
is that we do need that straight line
going all the way across there.
And let me just tell you folks, look,
if you're doing any kind of tiling and you end tiling
anywhere from one room to another, at the very least,
even if you did the crappiest job ever installing that tile,
please folks, make it end on a complete,
perfect, straight edge.
It will make your life so much better going forward,
doesn't matter, oh nobody's going to see it,
it's gonna go on with the carpet, it doesn't matter.
It will matter at some point in the future
if you did not make it a perfectly straight line.
Alright, so what I've done there is
I've put some blue tape on in this edge right here,
from that door jam over to this side.
That edge is where we're going to cut
with this angle grinder and remove all of this tile here.
Such that when we put our T-Mold in, okay,
that will be the new edge of the tile right,
so the T-Mold will go all the way over the tile like that.
See 'cause it comes right up to the edge of the tile there
and then our wood flooring has to come up to
half way across this point here.
Okay, so we can't even cut any of this wood
until we get this thing cut,
because that's gonna be our reference point.
We have to make sure that each piece of wood we cut
fits under the T-Molding there and remember,
our goal through all of this is to make sure that,
that this T-Mold piece kind of
sits back from the door jam there.
We really don't want the,
Okay so we actually just decided to move the tape
even closer this way because we realized
we can still cover the holes that are on here
with the T-Mold because what we wanna do is,
if the tile edge is right there,
the T-Mold will glue onto it right on the edge like that.
Which means now when you get over to the door jam,
the T-Mold here will be set back
about a half inch from the door jam,
which is good because that means on
the other side of the door they will not
be able to see the T-Mold, we hope.
Again, we're stuck with the constraints
of what the builder did with that door
being way up so high like that, and no,
we're not going to spend any money in replacing the doors.
So this will all just get shaved
right down to a straight line.
Okay so we've managed to get the
angle grinder here to cut through all of this
and we're pulling off the pieces here one by one
and we'll have to probably chisel some more
along the ends there.
But you can see I got it reasonably straight there.
And you always wanna make sure
you're using a vacuum right close by.
I actually had two vacuums going here, so I had,
this head was sitting over here and this head
was sitting right over here to catch
any of the dust that comes flyin' out.
Alright, so a couple a minutes later,
it's all vacuumed out and we have
a very reasonably straight edge going across the tile there.
That is what the builder should've done in the first place.
So now, what we wanna do is
take our little T-Mold reference piece here
and just kinda see how it would fit on there.
And sure enough, it fits on there nice.
Nice edge to go up against so it'll get glued down
right in this position like this,
and you could see it's actually covering
that one hole right there too, remember?
We were worried about that, but see, we covered it.
And down on this other side here,
it will cover that one as well, see.
So now you can see here where the original line was
from the middle transition that they had here,
remember they had that old metal piece that was there before
that ended right there, so we're hoping that
when we finalize this piece and have it in,
that you still won't be able to see
the wood piece under the door when it closes.
So looking at it from above,
there's where it's gonna lay on the floor
and then if we close the door here,
you can see the door covers it,
so we can't see it from the outside,
which is perfect, that's exactly what we wanted.
So I was correct in setting it back
from the doorstop there by about a half inch,
like you see right there in that corner there.
Now let's see how it looks from the inside.
Okay, so from inside the bedroom we close the door,
we can see the T-Mold piece there
and we will not be able to see the tile.
So this solution works perfectly for both
inside the room and from outside the room.
This was a perfect fix.
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Now we can't always assume that we're getting
a 45 degree angle here, so what we're going to do is
use my trusty digital angle finder here
and we're gonna measure it here.
So we're gonna just line it up against this edge
of the wood plank there and we move this plate here
up against the wall and it's telling us
it's about a 50 degree angle there,
so that's what we're going to do.
We will cut this wood piece at 50 degrees
and see how it fits.
Okay, so we have the piece in place,
the right side of it's cut nice.
The left side of it, the cut worked out really nice,
goes way back in that corner there.
And it's perfect because see, our T-Mold piece
will come in and it will slide over it like that,
right up the edge, so we're nicely under it,
we'll just adjust it a little bit more.
And down here, you don't have to worry about
that it's so close to the wall 'cause
it's gonna go under the drywall there, so that's perfect.
So now we just have to do these last couple of pieces here.
Alright so this next piece here,
we have that size already cut
and we've got it laid across here
and we're just gonna cut it
right across the line like there.
We're gonna draw a line right there
and cut it on the chop saw.
Okay, so that other piece is in
and the second to last piece is ready to come in now.
And we've got his side cut and we'll do the same thing,
we'll cut him straight across.
And we've got almost the last piece done,
so this piece will go right in here.
Just slide it in right there,
so that's where he's gonna fit in that spot there.
So what we just have to do then, is
we're gonna cut out the bottom of the door frame there
and then we'll shape a piece of wood
that might fit in there.
Okay, so here's our final triangle piece right here
and then we made this small little piece here,
this wedge-shaped piece to fit in this gap right there.
So now when you go to fit in your T-Mold piece
it'll go right to the edge there
and then once you're standing up at standing height,
you won't even be able to tell
that there's a piece down in there.
But that happens a lot when we end up
with these curved moldings on the doors.
Alright, so as we fade out of the bedroom here,
the nice laminate flooring here,
you can see how it came out really nice here
on the door frame there.
So remember, we cut it with the angle grinder
and made it nice and perfectly straight.
So this is why I tell people look,
whenever you're working on rooms
and you have to end the tile where your wood flooring
someplace, whatever you do,
make sure at least that you have a nice, straight edge.
The straighter you can get it, the better it is.
So you see how I left my wood flooring,
they all kind of end at the same point there.
It just makes life so much easier and allows you
more flexibility in doing things later on or even now.
So for example, when I have to put this T-Mold piece here,
so here's our final cut T-Mold piece,
this is going to fit in here.
And the thing about this is,
it's gonna need that straight edge along the tile there
in order to fit flush up against it, right?
So here's where it fits, and you remember I said that,
hey, we're going to have to push it back
almost a half inch from the doorstop there.
Otherwise, when you close the door,
you're gonna see the wood flooring.
So let's see, so there it is all installed,
and it looks really nice.
It's very nicely terminated against the tile floor here,
see, so what we wanna do now is let's test it
by closing the door.
So we're going to close the door here
and watch what happens here.
See, so the wood floor disappears, you don't see it,
because you remember our problem was that the builder
left this door up real high.
So the only way you can see
that T-Mold there from the wood floor
is if you come all the way down on the level of the door.
So right now the camera is about six inches off the floor
and I can just barely see the edge
of the T-Mold there, see.
So, that's how it looks on this side of the door
and now we want to go all the way around here.
Let's see how it looks on this side of the door.
So kind of looking out towards the tile floor there,
you can see it looks really good here on this side.
So now we're going to close the door.
And from this side, you don't see the tile
unless you come all the way back and then come down.
So here we are about a foot off the floor
and about three feet away and then you can
just barely start to see some of the tile
poking through there, see that.
But, standing up when you close the door,
all you see is your wood floor
and the wood transition molding there, the T-Molding.
So, this was a pretty good recovery
from a really bad starting point
compared to what the builder left us with.
Okay now to glue this down, normally we would use
a snap track also, but since we're dealing with concrete
I typically don't use the snap tracks on concrete
because they have these little tiny little holes in them
and you wouldn't be able to screw in a tap con
through those tiny holes anyways, so it's fine.
As long as you're perfectly level here, which we are,
both sides are the same height.
So, we goop up a little here for the bottom of the T,
the stem of the T will rest on it, that's this part
right here and then I also put some on there as well.
And then I'll put some right here in the corner.
This is the part, this side here
that's gonna rest on the tile.
The other side where the wood goes,
you don't put anything at all because the wood
has to be able to move and expand and contract
in and out of there, so that's pretty much how you do it.
Normally I use PL adhesive.
We didn't have our tube with us here,
I think it dried out on us.
So we used silicone which is fine,
as long as it's perfectly level.
So let's go ahead and insert this now.
So all I do is I just make sure that
it's pulled all the way up against the tile,
and then you push it down like this.
Now depending on the curvature of your floor
and how uneven it is, like mine's nice and perfectly flat.
It just smacked down and it stayed down.
We normally will put cloths down right here
and put some weights on there until it cures overnight.
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