Modern ways are not always best.

aliasojo

Years ago it used to be a standard practice to put wooden threshold bars in doorways. The door would 'sit' a smidgeon above the threshold and the floor covering either side would butt up against it. Simple. No large gaps under the door, the door frame could be a standard size for all doors etc.

These days, thresholds are not really used which means you either have all your door frames a set height no matter what the floor covering just to keep them all in line, or you adapt the height of each depending on what flooring you have and accept the frames will be different heights.

Neither of these options are all that great so why are thresholds not widely used these days? They seem to sort the problem out well.

A case of newer isn't always better maybe?

Doozergirl

I think you're right.

We have terrible issues with different types of floor coverings in our own house. Our bathroom now sits so high with the extra ply to make the floor rigid and the tiles on top that we've put half inch ply all the way down the hallway to level it off a bit more! My ensuite looks stupid as well where tiles meet carpet and I have no idea how to make it look better.

CKdesigner

Doozergirl wrote: »

I think you're right.

We have terrible issues with different types of floor coverings in our own house. Our bathroom now sits so high with the extra ply to make the floor rigid and the tiles on top that we've put half inch ply all the way down the hallway to level it off a bit more! My ensuite looks stupid as well where tiles meet carpet and I have no idea how to make it look better.

Put a threshold in - sorted!

andrew-b

These are good: http://www.wickes.co.uk/Flooring-Multiheight-T-Bar-and-Reducer/invt/201520 ..also comes in silver or wood effects and longer lengths.
Our tiled kitchen floor is higher than the hall carpet by just over a centimetre and this sorted it out no problem. Used some double sided carpet tape to stick the carpet down on the hall side and mount the t-bar piece on the lower floor.

iamcornholio

There is nothing like a nice bit of stratched aluminium or gold strip with ingrained dirt, across the bottom of a doorway

diable

I made up a bit of hardwood that butted up to the tiles and routed a recess which holds the carpet down when screwed down, does the job.

underlay_guru

google 'easy shims' ......solves the problem of a carpeted room which is lower than an ajoining wood or tiled floor!


(ps I don't work for easy shims!)

Doozergirl

underlay_guru wrote: »

google 'easy shims' ......solves the problem of a carpeted room which is lower than an ajoining wood or tiled floor!


(ps I don't work for easy shims!)

I can't find a company called easy shims. I did find carpet shims which is an american company selling exactly what it is that I need... (brilliant, thank you)

Where do I buy those over here?

Canucklehead

Doozergirl wrote: »

I can't find a company called easy shims. I did find carpet shims which is an american company selling exactly what it is that I need... (brilliant, thank you)

Where do I buy those over here?

Good morning: try here.

HTH

Canucklehead

leveller2911

I think the main reason developers etc don't fit thresholds any more is all to do with us being a "Risk adverse society".In the old days if you tripped over a threshold you learnt to pick your feet up, now days they want litigation/compensation.

iamcornholio

Isn't that "easy-shims" product just some 3mm hardboard and carpet gripper in a box?