Hi folks, I don’t post all that often anymore, mostly lurk unless there is a thread I can actually contribute to…
anyway, I am helping my dad with a room addition, slab floor in San Deigo area, getting ready to hang the 2 entry doors. The aluminum thresholds go in before carpet, right? Pops is tryin to tell me the thresholds sit on top of the carpet… I thought the carpet installers would roll the edge of carpet up to the threshold- I don’t mind being wrong, but I really enjoy being right, ya know?
let me know what you guys think…
thanks in advance,
greg
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We don't build on slabs that much so maybe there are some unique differences.
Still, I would never want carpet under my exterior doors.
#1- The addition needs to be dried in long before carpet and exterior doors are an integral part of drying in.
#2- How are you going to seal under the thresholds with carpet there? The best practices approach is to construct a sill pan that you set your exterior doors on to divert any rogue water droplets out and carpet is definitely not an approved sill pan.
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
You don't EVER want carpet under a threshold. The only thing you want under it is silicone caulk.
What would happen when you wanted to put in new carpet several years down the line?
BlakeIf you're not the lead dog, the view never changes.
thanks everyone, hadn't remembered about the pan, my brother runs a metal fab shop -I'll get him to bend & weld up a chunk of stainless...
thanks again, greg
NO carpet underneath of the door threshold.
Threshold needs to be panned and sealed underneath -- carpet = water wick.
Jim
Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.
beg to differ, as long as we are talking about interior doorway thresholds.
the aluminum strip goes over the edge of the carpet and "finishes" it.
if you want new carpet several years down the line, you pull up the aluminum (it will be ruined, but are cheap to replace) and put down a new one.
that's the way i see it done around here anyway. me, i sanded and refinished my 1930's hardwood floors and don't want to have even so much as a throw rug ever again.
Edited 11/10/2007 5:08 pm ET by msm-s
msm-s,
I believe he was asking about entry door's, not interior.
northeastvt
i saw that it said entry door, but any passage into a room is an entry. isn't it? ;-)
Not trying to be a smart alec, but possibly that's what his dad was thinking.
I always think of entry doors as exterior doors
Don't see thresholds on interior door frames either.
Never heaard that one before. You call and order an entry door and you will get it with an exterior jamb and a threshold
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haven't installed many entry sets on int. doors either.!:}
He said entry doors, not interior
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gotcha- my point though was that maybe that's the reason his dad said the opposite. my dad used to be brilliant about building things, but in his last active years he got quite confused. just got back from a week with them. he's 92 now and not the same person he used to be.
I see, I feel that coming on myself some days;)
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You are right. That threshold has to be ccaulked /sealed to the slab to prevent water intrusion, and it has to set on a level solid surface for the doors to work right
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