I’m putting down 3/4″ oak strip flooring. It will meet a 1.25″ quarry tile/underlayment foyer. I’m thinking of making a 4/4 header board threshold about 5″ wide screwed on top of a 1/4″ plywood spacer and beveling a maybu 2-3″ section from 4/4″ to the 1/4″ level of the 3/4′ strip flooring, making a 2-3″ ‘ramp’. Also I would like to inlay a 5/16″ black walnut strip in the flat part of the header board and thinking of routing this. The header/threshold boards would be beveled at the corner and held back 1/4″ from the tile to caulk for expansion. The strip flooring would tongue into a flooring strip parallel to the header board which I guess would just be a butt joint as I don’t have a router bit to cut a groove or tongue. Anyone see anything wrong or problematic with this plan? TIA
Tom Trueb Delphi, IN
Replies
tt,
Sounds like you're on the right page. I would buy a bit (or just a few passes over the table saw) and groove the floor side of the header (thresh-hold) and let the end-matched tongues or spline (if the floor runs in the same direction as the thres-hold), fit into the thresh-hold piece. This will create a more stable connection between floor/thresh-hold. Just glue up the thresh-hold with 2 pcs. of 4/4 oak and 1 pc. of 4/4 walnut in the center.
Ditch
Ditch, thanks for the reply. I'm currently hitting meself on the forehead and bought some 1/2" underlayment CDX to just bring the whole shebang up to the tile level. I like your idea of the full-depth walnut insert. Tom