How to Make Your Own Wood Floor Transition Strips

[@TheFixerHomeRepair]

Don't want to make your own? Watch this video on how to install a store bought transition strip for LVP flooring- kzbin.info/www/bejne/laOmZKKFYrFrfq8 Subscribe to my channel: bit.ly/SubscribeToTheFixer Thanks for watching! 😃

[@EastRiverHomestead]

Thank you, Matt. You won't believe me when I tell you how similar our lives are. It seems that whatever you are making a video about is what I am trying to do and you show me how to do it. Must be kindred.

[@butterfliesandcamo5975]

Great minds think alike🤯

[@lindaroyal8161]

I'm anxious to see your move into the house. Hope you show all of it, especially how you'll be setting up the wonderful work space you'll have and the storage to get super organized. The house looked in really great condition, but I'm sure you're wife will want to put her own touches and designs in each of the rooms and hoping you'll share all that content as well. TY

[@sway7even385]

Just want you to know that I appreciate you and these videos. Everything from a small job to a bigger project they are ALL appreciated. Makes my job as a new homeowner that much easier and less daunting and gives me more confidence in tackling these projects around the house in order to save a few bucks during these hard economic times.

[@TheFixerHomeRepair]

That is amazing to hear. Thanks so much! Very happy to help! 😀👍

[@AuxiarMolkhun]

"...Always got to be a little afraid of your tools." really are words to live by when it comes to saws and such. It really is that easy to screw up and lose a digit or two just because you weren't careful enough.

[@jackhuynh2489]

Nice work, Matt. Just simple steps with simple tools. I too don’t have high end tools

[@alastairdallas]

Thanks, as others have said on other videos, for showing us your occasional mess-ups--that's where the most learning is. I have had bad luck treating oak like fir. I'm used to working with fir and now I'm gun shy about working with hardwoods.

[@terencemerritt]

I prefer working with hardwoods. Why are you nervous about it?

[@scottsog7635]

Suggestion, make it so it’s T shaped, looking from end so you have the underside bearing on main floor so when stood on it won’t flex or break, still having room underneath for floor movement 👌🏻

[@d1gardner]

There is a sizable void between the two floors that needs to be filled with something solid (such as ripping a strip of wood)., but not filled as a tight fit between the two floors to allow for expansion/contraction. The filler strip would probably have prevented the split. Also, the expansion you mentioned will be with the wood floor which will expand and contract with seasonal changes, so only securing your transition strip to one of the floors is a good idea (probably to the wood floor). Nice job!

[@KE5ZZO]

I undercut door frame to hold ends of wood transition strip. Also if tile to non- wood try aluminum flat bar under cut into door frame holds end. And u can do silicone under flat bar Sanding tip. B4 sand take pencil scribble a zig-zag on wood. Sand until you remove pencil mark Would not nail. Pre drill holes and use brass wood screws

[@ajdonally1522]

I have had this issue...what I did was I bought a hardwood reducer transition..and I bought a matching species of wood in 1x material. I then ripped the 1x material to cover the height difference between the reducer and the floor. I glued them and several short brad nails from the backside. Worked like a charm..does take some time though.

[@terencemerritt]

Looks great Matt. What’s the plans with your old house here? You going to keep it or sell it?

[@iamwhoiamd7056]

Awesome video.

[@frankj5947]

Thanks for sharing the fails. Gives us mortals from despair 😂

[@TheFixerHomeRepair]

😂👍

[@Pallidus_Rider]

The Fixer 👍

[@jodirauth8847]

Failure is very best teacher.

[@lindarosenthal6835]

Nice. Thanks.

[@mayraperez7091]

Greetings from Puerto Rico. LOVEEEEE your content. Hey, are you fixing the old house to sell it or rent it?

[@charleshenderson1174]

Thanks

[@nolongeramused8135]

Wouldn't a strip with a triangular side profile do the trick?

[@brianstevens9469]

I think I would have cut it to the thickest floor side, and then feathered it down to the lower floor. Just a thought.

[@TheFixerHomeRepair]

Yup! That is an option. You would just have to leave a gap for the LVP and it might change over time but if that wouldn't bother you that would work. 👍

[@EddieGoodluck]

Metal transition strips are a better idea if you want it sturdy and aesthetically pleasing

[@ST-0311]

I think the 1st one would have been fine with some support under it. Backer rod would support it, and still allow the vinyl to expand. LVP doesn't expand nearly as much as people think it does, especially in a climate controlled environment. If it did, the expansion would also occur across the width of the planks. That would lead to the flooring buckling, since they are butted tight to one another.

[@GraeMatterz]

Leaving the transition strip bridging the gap will likely cause it to split out again. To avoid that, cut it leaving the transition strip thicker in the center so the wood meets and is supported by the subfloor while making sure to leave a little space for the flooring to expand then cut out each side to match the respective flooring thickness.

[@Morpha-Ahprom]

💖

[@7b7BenGazing]

Do you use Wood Glue for Transition Strips?

[@cantgetright742]

Tough break. 😬

[@amycyclenut]

Vinyl moves almost zero if not zero. I've seen it tested by heating in an oven as well as thrown into the snow for hours and it didn't change size even a mm.

[@TheFixerHomeRepair]

I have a spot between my kitchen/dining room with no transition strip. I have noticed the gap is no longer even. Maybe an 1/8 inch at most but it has moved.

[@amycyclenut]

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[@terencemerritt]

It most certainly has movement. I’ve had to replace my pantry because I ran it tight all around and it got buckled from expanded. Not major, but could definitely tell. Cut a 1/4 inch all around and it’s been perfect ever since

[@TheFixerHomeRepair]

I understand... Apparently not all floors are the same. The one in that video may not have expanded but mine did. Don't know what else to tell ya.

[@Troupster]

Vinyl does not expand or contract, even if the manufacturer says it does

[@TheFixerHomeRepair]

I have a spot between my kitchen/dining room with no transition strip. I have noticed the gap is no longer even. Maybe an 1/8 inch at most but it has moved.

[@terencemerritt]

Tell that to my pantry floor after installing it right. It hooved up and I had to cut 1/4” all around and it’s fine now

[@januzi2]

I'm pretty sure you've bought a new house just to have more stuff to fix.

[@MsGail61]

Yes, you don’t want a mechanical hand like Jaime Perkins.

[@terencemerritt]

Jaime is awesome