Bathroom saddle installation

So, again — a quick and genuinely fun little effort, with a really nice aesthetic impact in the end. Everything looks clean, crisp and properly finished. Very close to the asking price as well. That looks great. Do you have any suggestions for putting down a marble or similar material threshold on a hard wood floor up against ceramic tile? Also… Does anything go under it? See the comment and 6 photos just below, Tom — I just did this, maybe 3 weeks ago.

Ceramic tile to hardwood. Thin set mortar is what I used under here, which is more conventional than what I did in the main article above. Does the white carrara look OK or should I use an oak saddle instead? Email Save Comment 6. Featured Answer. Barbara Almandarz 4 years ago. Like 1 Save.

Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Can you use a schluter strip instead? Might be too late - I'm not sure. If you can't I would have them make one out of wood stained to match your wood floor.

You are totally right about the marble not working. I try to always ensure that a transition other than a schluter matches one of the materials it is bridging. Related Discussions Question regarding coordinating marble floor to existing marble bathroom floor Q. If we buy the house, I will post a pic. There's carpet in the bedroom now.

Bathroom saddle quick question Q. The issue is that our floor is dark and we can't find a good marble threshold to match. So we were thinking of using the caeserstone that we are using for the shower threshold. POLL: How do your keep your towels in the bathroom? Show Me a beautiful bathroom that doesn't use tile?! My demolished bathroom's annihilating my neighbor's bathroom! Help with this bathroom door saddle.

I used black Corian. I have Brazilian cherry hardwood in the bedroom and Seneca handmold in deep sea blue in the bathroom. I didn't want something that would detract from either material, and I think it sets off both beautifully. In our bath, we went with a strip of the accent tile from the shower--this was something our builder was doing in his spec houses and we really liked it.

This was great because I never really liked the marble thresholds to begin with--they never look right to me, they stick up too high posing a trip hazard and they are so cold. We used the accent tile transition technique at the doorways between the bedroom and the bath and the closet and the bath.

Note that our transition was from carpet to tile in both. In our laundry, we did a very thin metal transition strip. Both transition options allowed us to keep the floor height at the transitions as level as possible reducing trip hazards and making the house more handicap accessible should the need ever arise. I have black slate and chose a black marble pre made threshold I got at The Tile Shop.

Here it is shortly after grouting the floor but before it was caulked at the junction with the tile. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw.

Mehr erfahren. Small-Space Living. Kitchen and Dining Seating. Living Room and Entryway Seating. Sign In. Join as a Pro. Be sure both ends of the track are equidistant from the edge of the thicker flooring material. Snap the saddle onto the track and make sure both edges overlap the flooring. If not, unsnap the saddle, unscrew the track and reposition it. Align a wood saddle without a track so that its thicker edge overlaps the edge of the thicker flooring and it slopes down to completely cover the edge of the thinner flooring.

Nail the saddle down if its sitting on a wood or vinyl floor. Otherwise, glue it.