Hardwood Transition..????

bujaly

In this picture, I have hardwood and carpet that separates my living and dining room.
My question might be for the DIY forum, but I'm always on here anyway..

How would I go about putting in new hardwood where the carpet is and make it look as though there never was separation there?
In what I'm asking here is, if I were to take out the perpendicular piece, I would still have the line that was cut on the parallel pieces, so why even take that piece out then? I want the new pieces to blend in as far as uniformity goes with the staggering of joints.

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ron schenker

Can't be done. You'll have to sell the house

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Don't worry, the baseboard will hide it!

Floordude

Take out the header board and take out all the cut ends, so you can weave new wood into the old.

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SelfContract

Match the old boards with new boards, but you can not guarantee the matching colors! Also, old boards and new boards must have same thickness. If old boards has underlayment-thickness, new boards also has same underlayment-thickness so to level both surfaces.

troubleseeker

Remove the threshold board and the cut out each board until you get it back to the nearest seam. That will give you a factory end to mate to when you weave the new boards in. Since this is obviously a "manufactured" floor, be sure the product is available first. I have run into problems with this. The flooring "name brand" will change to a different factory for their manufacturing every few years, and although it looks the same and still carries the exact same product name, the t & g or other interlocks do not mate up. If so, I would leave as it exists, and change the directon of the new floor.

Jerry T

You can either lace it or leave what you got. If you have the room using doubled up header boards does not look too bad.

PrecisionFloors

Another idea would be to double up the header as Jerry suggested, and run the adjacent area on a diagonal. That way it will look like it was by design and not done later.

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bujaly

What makes you say this is manufactured, just by looking at this photo?

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Floordude

The bevels, and the finish character, do hint prefinished.

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troubleseeker

Apparent beveled edges and ends, and that classic "factory applied" look to the finish.

bujaly

Manufactured and prefinished mean the same thing when it comes to flooring?
They were definitely pre-finished when they were installed, I know that..

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Mike Costello

Umm no. Manufactured would be engineered, laminate or vinyl.

Prefinished, to me, denotes solid hardwood with a factory finish

Floordude

Trouble, has x-ray vision.


Terms used can vary from region, to how old the guy saying it. Some old timers, had names that you don't here today, for the slang.

Some old timer, sand & Finish guys, do call any prefinished board, be it engineered or solid, manufactured wood. Which meant, they didn't have a job. The term for them, came from manufactured housing(moble homes) It is already made, and finished, you just have to place it. The old timers called engineered, Laminated.

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troubleseeker

Not necessarily. Manufactured or engineered usually refers to a laminated product ( laminated refering to its cross ply lower layers, not a "laminate" finish material), but prefinished could be full 3/4 thickness t & g, just with a factory applied finish.

RhinoFlooring

Floordudes suggestion was what I would have done!!!

And looking at the floor I think It is a Bruce 3/4" microbevel prefinished!!!

Do we actually know what it is?

bujaly

No, I do not, but 'm gonna just add another header board and go from there. If I did match this up with somethan pretty darn close and took out all the pieces to the next cut, how long before the new pieces maybe start to blend in?

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RhinoFlooring

They will never blend because the existing floor will continue the change as will the new flooring you are going to be installing. Therefore try to match as close as possible. If it is infact a 3/4" strip you also have the option of putting in unfinished strip and sanding and finishing onsite for complete uniformty.