Types of threshold bar
- Carpet gripper bar — tucks carpet edge into a toothed strip
- Reducer bar — bridges a height step between two hard floors
- Flush T-bar — for two floors of the same height
- Cover strip — sits over an expansion gap between matching floors
- End cap or nosing — used where flooring meets a step edge
When the wrong bar causes problems
Using a flat T-bar where there's a genuine height difference leaves a lip that catches toes and shoes, and screwing a bar down through a floating floor rather than into the subfloor beneath can lock the floor rigid at exactly the point it needs to move. We measure the height difference at every doorway before choosing the profile.
What we ask of you
Nothing unusual is needed from you at doorways specifically, though if you've got a particular style of bar in mind — brass rather than aluminium, for example — it's worth mentioning at survey stage so we can source it in advance rather than fitting a standard profile on the day.
Older Fife doorframes and uneven floor heights
In older Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy properties it's common to find doorframes that have settled slightly out of level over the decades, meaning the gap under the door isn't the same width all the way across — we account for this when fitting the bar rather than assuming a uniform height change.
Finishing touches at the threshold
- Bar colour matched as closely as possible to flooring
- Screws or adhesive fixing depending on subfloor type
- Door checked for clearance over the new bar
- Edges of both floors trimmed cleanly before the bar goes down