We are about to install strand bamboo in our house. It is 5/8" thick (glue-down), which is much thicker than the tile that was down. We have 3 exterior doors to deal with. Our front door is solid wood, so we can just cut it off at the bottom if we need to. The other two doors are metal. Can we just get a lower threshold to compensate for the higher floor or is there going to be more to it? I've heard of people having to redo the entire door frame. That seems a little much for such a simple problem. Maybe I'm wrong, though. If that's what we have to do, I think we'll just buy new doors! LOL We've got reducers for our transitions to tile, but the doors are the issue right now.

Kelli

Not only the floor being higher, your going to need an expansion gap along the threshold, that is going to need a trim or transition molding, which is going to add more height. I use an endcap at all exterior door thresholds.

The job I just got finished with had 3 exterior doors. The front door, the garage door, and the rear attrium door, all had to be removed and raised, or the door would not open at all. They had to have no doors on there home for 3 weeks, just to find a contractor to do the work on the door frames.

Yep, that's what we've got, the same three doors. So, we really have to make the door frame bigger? There is no other way? We definitely can't go without doors for that long (not in the summer!) We are doing all the work ourselves, and my husband is an engineer. We don't have a sliding door like the one you showed in the photo. The threshold we currently have sat on top of the existing tile. I thought it would be the same with the wood. Am I wrong? There was a gap under there, which I would think would be sufficient for expansion. It is late, so I'll have to look at it more closely tomorrow.

Kelli

Exterior doors can be raised without a whole lot of work sometimes. You would need to remove the top interior door casing and see how much clearance you have between the header and the door frame.

Will do! Thanks! We haven't even really looked at it, but we knew we had an issue there. Hopefully we have enough clearance, as we don't need to raise it too much.