Hi, my name is Drew. I'm looking to extend my tongue and groove floors into our carpeted dining room. The house had these floors when we bought it so I wasn't sure how it was installed until I pulled up the end cap at the edge of the dining room.

First thing I noticed was the difference in heights of the floors. Under the wood floors there is 5/8 or so board of some sort that the floor is glued to.


I never payed attention to height difference before. The base molding is also a different height from the dining room to floored area.


I'm not sure what to do. If I put wood down before the floors, that would keep a nice seamless transition but then I think the base molding would look a little odd being that short unless I ripped it off and put new up. The biggest issue is that the wood floors runs up to the floor in the kitchen and so does another opening from the dining room. Its a gradual change everywhere except where the wood floor meets the carpet.


Even if I was to raise the floor in dining room, I would then have a height difference in the kitchen. What is the proper way to do this? If I have to keep the end cap on and continue floors at current height that's fine. I just want it done like its supposed to be. Thanks for any help.

The best way to do the installation aside from taking up all flooring down to the original subfloor would probably be to just use a transition strip in one of the places where the flooring meets up. It sounds like either the kitchen or where the flooring currently meets the carpet will be where this would be.

Yea I don't see any problem with using a transition strip where the new hardwood floor will meet up to the old hardwood floor. Depending on how much of a difference there ends up being, either a Reducer strip, or a Baby Threshold (AKA End Cap) can be used. It also looks like you'll need a transition strip where the dining room meets up to the kitchen (linoleum/sheet vinyl?). The same kind of molding currently being used between the existing wood and the kitchen flooring should do the trick.