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His proposal is the way to go and will work great.

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I think the proposed solution will look great!

Good! You two have been my advisors through this whole thing, and you've both always been right, so this is good!

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They just have to be careful that whatever they do with that funky piece of stained pine results in a subfloor that that's stable and the same height as the family room subfloor so that the new flooring just runs up to the oak floor smoothly, and the slight step up from old flooring to new is covered by the transition strip/threshold.

The other thing that does is hide the fact that the jamb is undercut for a thicker floor, one that was closer in height to your new floor than the old one. You can see how much of a gap there is between the pine strip and the bottom of the jamb. Where your new floor and transition strip are, the floor is higher and the undercut jamb looks better. By running the new floor all the way through the doorway, I think it will look better.

Yes to both of those points. I was looking at that jamb spot. If the rest of it gets fixed and there's still a cavity there (there's a much narrower cavity there where the new transition strip is) Mr. SK could fix that so it's not noticeable. But I need to kind of keep track of it.

The height thing is the other issue, I'll be sure to ask about it before they get started.

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Everyone can make a mistake/error in judgment, but if they're willing to make it right, that's what is important.

Exactly! And it seems they are going to do that. I might "complain" (in the loose sense of the word) after it's all done, mainly just to say "this shouldn't have happened like this, you should have discussed it with me first." And also they should have left the leftover transition strip and I think they maybe pulled up an older transition strip as well. When I talked to the supervisor (not the guys who did the work, their boss) he asked what materials were left and none of the important pieces were left. (There's flooring left and they should be able to use the currently installed transition, so it should be ok). But those are two big mistakes that shouldn't be repeated. Nobody who's paying for a purdy new floor wants a spot left like that.

There is a very fussy, very perfect, and - dare say? - very Japanese way to fix the undercut.

Finish the floor and if the undercut still bothers you I’ll tell you how to fix it.

Whew.

BTW — looking at this, I totally get why the “rule” is for the transition floors to meet halfway in the threshold. But since that wasn’t an option here, this is definitely the next best thing. And I don’t think anyone will notice or care about this, whereas that bath gap would have bugged me constantly.
Whew.

Very nice! That was a quick fix by the contractor.

That looks so much better!

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
BTW — looking at this, I totally get why the “rule” is for the transition floors to meet halfway in the threshold. But since that wasn’t an option here, this is definitely the next best thing. And I don’t think anyone will notice or care about this, whereas that bath gap would have bugged me constantly.
Whew.

Not centering the transition is really only noticeable if there is a door and the floor from the other room can be seen when the door is closed.

I think the installation looks just right.

SUCH an improvement!

Thanks y'all!! I am so relieved! And yes, it looks great!! I love the new flooring!!

Steve,

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Not centering the transition is really only noticeable if there is a door and the floor from the other room can be seen when the door is closed.

Ahhh! That makes a lot of sense!! And it would look pretty bad to have a two-inch strip of mismatched flooring sticking out fro underneath a doorway!

And yes, it's not an issue here. If there ever was a door in this doorway, it's long gone... I'm thinking there's not even a spot where a door knob was...

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That was a quick fix by the contractor.

Yep, I think they really made an effort to get it done quickly.

Yay, now I can go back to freaking out focusing on getting ready to actually move!