How to tile a portion of a concrete floor and create a safe transition
bergsteiger1
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I have a door in my garage that leads to my house. Because the area by the door is a slightly low spot, water from snow melting off the cars tends to settle there. I would like to put some porcelain tile in the area just before you enter the door, but that would result in a 3/8″ or so abrupt change in floor level where the tile ends and there is only the concrete floor.
Is there a safe way to smooth out this transition to avoid a tripping hazard? I haven’t seen any kind of wedge-shaped tiles that might work for this. Perhaps some other material such as composite trim cut into a wedge shape?
Would this kind of installation be a code issue?
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you
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Berg
There's two types of transition that comes to mind.
One cheap but pain in the rear type-use a common metal transition and putz with anchors ..........
Look at a Schluter transition-mud it in under your tile-done. They have more abrupt square edge (not recommended) to a rolled nosing type to a sweeping wedge (check this one out.)
I'll try to find a link after I take the dog out.
That was quick-it was cold and our dog realized it............
http://www.schluter.com/1_2_reno_ramp.aspx
This one above is the nicest and easiest transition, complies with ADA, but there are others. Look at the Schluter site and find floor edge treatments. Several more available.
Floor transition
I searched for what you described and came up with this:
http://www.schluter.com/1_2_reno_ramp.aspx
It looks like a perfect solution to what I need. Thanks very much for the tip!
damn man...........
you're quicker than the dog. I just edited my post above with the same link.
Why not use self leveling cement so there will be no slope in the transition?
why not?
Welcome to Breaktime.
Well, the trip hazard is concrete garage floor to the tile he wishes to put down in front of the door to the house.
If you put self leveling "cement" in front of that tile-and it truly self leveled, where would it go?
If you used something like a vinyl concrete patch, you might be able to get the concrete floor clean enough for it to hold and if the feather edge didn't spall or crack off............I'd think that would be one butt ugly look up to tile.
According to the original post there is a low spot in front of the door.I thought the idea was to level the area for tile so there would be a smooth transiiton.It would have to be cleaned well and primed but I see no reason this would not bond with good prep.I have used it on concrete steps before with good results and they get alot of traffic.Here your just looking for a leveler under the tile.
beats me
but in the reply from the original poster-the schluter transition was what he was looking for, so he didn't have to look at the unfinished edge of a tile. Evidently no bullnose available..
no?
You are correct.I misread the OP.
mak
This happens to me quite often, especially after reading several replies after the original.
Keep at it, the important thing is to come up with logical good answers that might help someone.
thanks.
we try
no?
Tile transition to concrete
Hi Everyone,
I am the original poster for this thread and have included a photo of the nearly finished product. The Schuter Dano-Ramp was exactly what I needed and worked as advertised. Now all the melted snow from my cars stays well away from the entry door. There has been absolutely no issue with tripping at all. Perhaps the aluminum color of the ramp draws enough attention to itself to make it noticeable. Many thanks to all who posted ideas.
Excellent
Glad it worked and thanks for coming back.