floor finished in wrong place, what to do with threshold bar

MassiveJim

MassiveJim

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The plumber poured self levelling in the bathroom and used a strip of wood in the doorway, but he has set the strip of wood in the wrong place.

It should have been halfway across the bit where the door sits when closed, but he has set it up to where the door shuts when it is closed, so now If I want to fit a door bar, half of it will be visible when the door is closed.

I guess what I need to do is cut back the self levelling by about 20mm so that I can fit the door bar in the correct place.
What is the least messy way of doing this ?
 
MassiveJim said:
It should have been halfway across the bit where the door sits when closed, but he has set it up to where the door shuts when it is closed, so now If I want to fit a door bar, half of it will be visible when the door is closed.
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You mean the metal threshold strips? Do you have a pic because I thought they are meant to sit exactly under the door when closed?

In terms of cutting back self levelling, it's only thin isn't it, have you tried scoring it deeply with a Stanley knife then just breaking off the edge you don't want?
 
tom_e said:
Least messy for you, call the plumber back and get him to sort it.
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Under normal circumstances I would.
However, the plumber is a mate, he has taken on too much work and its generally a nightmare getting him to turn up.

I ripped this bathroom out in June this year, he has spent around 5 days total on it himself in that time, but I have to pester him constantly and he takes weeks to turn up.
He has essentially finished now (although he forgot to fit my bath panel on Saturday when he came)
I am just finishing off redecorating, cleaning tiles, fitting some cupboards to the wall.
Came to do the door bar and realised what he had done.
 
danlightbulb said:
You mean the metal threshold strips? Do you have a pic because I thought they are meant to sit exactly under the door when closed?

In terms of cutting back self levelling, it's only thin isn't it, have you tried scoring it deeply with a Stanley knife then just breaking off the edge you don't want?
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its about 25mm thick as we have fitted underfloor heating and the floor was about 18mm out of level.
 
Landing is carpet, bathroom is amtico, kind of stone/ concrete effect. Wooden strip wouldn't look right.

I've tried a z bar on it, but they're only really designed for about 15mm, so currently there is a weird profile on the carpet into the doorway.

Missus thinks this will eventually pull the carpet out of the gripper over time.
 
MassiveJim said:
Landing is carpet, bathroom is amtico, kind of stone/ concrete effect. Wooden strip wouldn't look right.

I've tried a z bar on it, but they're only really designed for about 15mm, so currently there is a weird profile on the carpet into the doorway.

Missus thinks this will eventually pull the carpet out of the gripper over time.
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They do loads of different colours, hopefully a case of finding the nearest match. We have Karndean and as they don't actually do matching threshold strips unless in the US(which is ludicrous) we had to get a matching Quickstep one...was really impressed, and will be using Quickstep in the future.

Just an example

QSVINCP40274 | Sandstone concrete

www.quick-step.co.uk www.quick-step.co.uk
 
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