Need to create a “threshold/transition between bedroom and bath. Doorway is 32 inches wide, need to bridge 5 1/2 inches horizontally, and (the fun part), the bedroom subfloor to bathroom floor height vary from 3 inches on the left to 2 inches on the right.
Bathroom floor is dead level, bedroom area was at one time a sleeping porch, and was sloped and then settled. Settlement has been stopped long ago, ripping up bedroom floor to level it is not an option, do not wish to disturb 120 year old quartersawn t&g red heart pine!
I have made a mock up from a hunk of 6×6, shaped and fitted to space that I may reproduce in a better wood species, but was wondering what others may have done in similar circumstances.
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I've done this by forming a threshhold from oak (Hard pine would work well, too.) and gluing a tapered nose on the part that rests on the sloping floor. When the whole thing was sanded and finished with poly, it looked fine.
Al Mollitor, Sharon MA
Did this for a living room/sunroom transition where the sunroom had been a porch (sound familiar?) Did exactly as Mojo said, used oak (I needed 6.5" wide) and routed the top edges. Cut a long taper (6' slider) and applied it on the bottom edge of the oak plank oak, then installed. Worked fine.