Sub Floor Different Heights

Some use aluminum or metal transition strips but they look industrial.

Sub floor different heights.

Starting a new flooring project carpet engineered hardwood on an upper floor of the house. Surprisingly they are not nearly as strong as ceramic tiles. Panel systems are also thinner than a sleeper floor so they add less height to the floor assembly an important benefit in height challenged basement rooms. Commercial floor installers deal with differing floor heights with different techniques.

Some build a ramp under the shorter surface and skip the transition strip but ramps break down over time. Typically made of plywood or osb and ranging in thickness from 19 32 to 1 1 8 thick the subfloor is truly structural second only to joists in this respect. For this reason a sturdy subfloor that doesn t flex is very important. This is me thinking out loud.

What i m missing is experience to tell which aspects are more important than others. Subfloor panels offer much easier installation than the traditional technique of nailing down 2x4 sleepers over the concrete and covering them with plywood. Subfloor thickness and floor height differences. This means that no matter what we add to the kitchen floor the height will be significantly different higher than adjoining rooms.

If the existing sub floor is 3 4 thick solid and flat with no deflection between the joists when walked on and the floor joists are spaced 16 inches or closer you may be able to run the hardwood flooring parallel with the floor joists to obtain a desired look. The tile council of north america tcna calls for a subfloor of 19 32 inch tongue and groove plywood to be installed over wood joists spaced 16 inches on center with a 1 8 inch gap between sheets. For 23 32 inch thick panels the joists should be at. This should be followed by a second layer of 15 32 inch thick plywood installed with a 1 4 inch gap between sheets.

For 19 32 inch thick panels the joists should be 20 inches on center. The problem now is that with only the subfloor down at this stage the kitchen is the same height as the adjacent dining room and hallway which have hardwood floors.