Installing Hardwood To Tile Transition

How is this done and what could be the consequences in regards to any expansion and contraction.

Installing hardwood to tile transition.

Here is how to make and install a flat hardwood floor transition to tile. Installing hardwood against tile or stone floors. The hardwood strip is unfinished and can be stained to match the color of the laminate flooring. It was designer s ide.

After all the common belief or concern that all wood floors needing expansion space. Frequently installers are asked to install wood floors against tile or stone flooring without transition pieces. How to install flooring transition between tile floor and hardwood laminate engineered flooring without transition molding. My tile guy says my hardwood guy is just trying to sell more product.

My hardwood guy says without the t molding which is rounded on top the wood floors don t have enough room to expand and might buckle. Over lap moldings are designed to transition to other floors while still providing an expansion gap so the flooring can have freedom to expand and contact with indoor climate changes. My tile guy says it s far better and more attractive to have a flat transition between the tile and the hardwood. This transition strip is designed for joining a laminate floor to a tile floor.

Ceramic tile floors tend to be higher than laminate floors because tile is installed over cement board while laminate usually lies over a thin foam underlayment. This is the finishing part. Installing a floating floor to a flush transition molding can potentially lead to buckling end joint peaking and squeaks later on.