Thanks all others for contributing to this forum. It has been great in helping me install my first 800 feet of superior brand red oak truffle throughout the dinning room and one bedroom. Just have another 6 rooms and a hallway to go. I know I have come across it in this threat however there are so many pages now its hard to pinpoint. I have two room transitions. One to a slightly lower floor tile and the other to another room with higher floor which just happens to be hardwood which I think had an additional layer of plywood added to the subfloor making it higher. I showed the hardwood store the picture of the wood floor to the tile and they though I should order a reducer so I did.



However upon further thought it is far to wide for the space I have between the wood and tile and I don’t really want to start pulling out boards. I was thinking maybe a T molding would work but the tile may be a little more then 1/4 inch lower then the wood floor? Any thoughts or tips to help me along would be great. I do have a planer with a dremel tool could that be used? I have a table saw but I don’t really want to push it with my fingers involved but if you have any suggestions I would be thankful




As can be seen in the photos the old hardwood floor has a reducer already which I would most likely be taking out when I figure out what to do to make this all work out

Again Thanks

I cant tell how wide your flooring is (the new stuff) also can tell how much of a height deference it is from the old hardwood to the new hardwood.

But it looks like something you should be able to ramp from one floor to the next, you will need to remove the light colored reducer, then hopefully the distance between the two floors is less than a piece of the new flooring, if you rip the board on the table saw like \_/ you should be able to make a seamless transition, we have the best luck doing this with boards that are 4 inches or more wide, and we have gone up to a 1 inch difference with no problems, just be sure to glue the board in, you may need to add a shim in the middle of the plank for support, we usually do that by ripping a scrap 1 by or 2 by with a 5, 10, or 15 degree angle on the top where the board will rest.

here is some pictures of one we did with a 4 in border piece to cover a 5/8 difference

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for the tile one, its less than 1/4 lower (The tile is lower?) it looks like the tile has a rounded edge? Id probably rip the next board in leaving a gap between the wood and tile about as big as the grout joints in the tile, slightly bigger if its a 1/4 difference to the bottom of the rounded part of the tile. Then I would either get colored caulk/grout that matched the grout (should come in a tube like glue) and caulk it, if you cant find the exact color you could use white caulk and put a layer of caulk between the joint, then sprinkle some dry matching grout on top of it, just be sure to protect the hardwood with tape and tarps while you have loose grout particles out