Transition from laminate to tiles

  • Erstellt am 2013-01-12 16:48:01

Baukoller-1

2013-01-12 16:48:01
  • #1

How do professionals design the transition between laminate and tiles? I don’t want to use transition strips, they don’t look nice and “ruin” the even surface for me. My idea is to install a tile edge trim. I would then simply seal the gap to the laminate with a silicone joint. I just doubt whether that would hold up in the long run, after all, the laminate was installed as a floating floor.
 

Knobel-1

2013-01-18 19:32:02
  • #2
I had the same problem and simply glued the final laminate board to the substrate. This gives you more stability; for me, the silicone sealing held.
 

MODERATOR

2013-01-21 17:15:03
  • #3
Hello Baukoller,

the silicone joint will not hold permanently; silicone joints require adhesion on two sides to be able to accommodate movements from the substrate. If you simply seal a floor joint with silicone, the two-sided adhesion will not be achieved, and one side (the connection to the laminate) will sooner or later tear.
 

Carsten_55-1

2013-04-19 11:57:38
  • #4
I also glued the last laminate board in front of the tiles and then laid the rest of the room starting from there. Then I placed a wooden threshold under the door from the living room to the hallway, and this now forms the transition. It also looks completely fine. Only a silicone joint would bother me personally, I think. The threshold is, I think, an optimal solution.
 

Hubertus-1

2013-04-22 19:34:10
  • #5
Forming a threshold is a nice solution. No tinkering, no artificial joint, and the materials match visually well.
 

Selbermacher-1

2013-04-25 20:55:50
  • #6
With a threshold, you get two joints, right? How did Carsten_55 seal the joints - without silicone?
 

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