18 April 2019, 08:38 PM
ShiroKuroWhew, resolved! — New floor is in! Almost perfect, but...
WTGquote:His proposal is the way to go and will work great.
And
quote: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!
WTG
quote: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.
quote: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.
