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Floor tiling question, Between room transitions
I am in the process of tiling my kitchen and living room. I am using
porcelain tile. My problem is that I am using cement board on plywood in my kitchen as a base, but my living room has a concrete slab. In the living room, I plan to tile directly onto the slab. My problem is that I will have a quarter inch height differential between the tiles in my kitchen vs. that of the living room. I have found threshold pieces at Home Depot which will allow for the quarter inch difference in height. However, I wondered if there were other ways of handling this little problem. Your ideas will be appreciated. Al Kondo |
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Floor tiling question, Between room transitions
Al Kondo wrote:
I am in the process of tiling my kitchen and living room. I am using porcelain tile. My problem is that I am using cement board on plywood in my kitchen as a base, but my living room has a concrete slab. In the living room, I plan to tile directly onto the slab. My problem is that I will have a quarter inch height differential between the tiles in my kitchen vs. that of the living room. I have found threshold pieces at Home Depot which will allow for the quarter inch difference in height. However, I wondered if there were other ways of handling this little problem. Your ideas will be appreciated. You could taper the 1/4" with topping cement over eight or ten feet and it would be unnoticeable. Whether it's worth the effort is hard to tell without knowing how the rooms are connected. R |
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Al Kondo wrote:
I am in the process of tiling my kitchen and living room. I am using porcelain tile. My problem is that I am using cement board on plywood in my kitchen as a base, but my living room has a concrete slab. In the living room, I plan to tile directly onto the slab. My problem is that I will have a quarter inch height differential between the tiles in my kitchen vs. that of the living room. I have found threshold pieces at Home Depot which will allow for the quarter inch difference in height. However, I wondered if there were other ways of handling this little problem. Your ideas will be appreciated. Al Kondo Doorway twixt the two? Area in the doorway slab? Cut tiles to fit that area and tilt down; i.e, thick mud on kitchen side, normal on LR side. Probably look better if tiles are cut into 1-2" widths...that way it is a "feature". -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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