How to Remove and Install a New Threshold
The threshold covers carpet or flooring edges that end at a door or forms the transition from one type of flooring to another. If one of the thresholds in your home gets damaged, you can replace it with a new one. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Remove the old threshold with a hammer and a pry bar. Remove nails or screws and pry the threshold up from floor.
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Measure the width of the door opening and cut a new threshold to fit.
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Pre-drill pilot holes into the floor where you want the threshold to go.
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Nail the threshold to the floor or use countersunk wood screws.
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Tips & Warnings
Use a small thin board under the claw of the hammer or pry bar to prevent marring the flooring when removing the old threshold.
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Comments
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willinsatx
Sep 09, 2007
Does not include instruction on bending the threshold "head" back over the carpet. Does not include the possibly of replacing tackless strips if you pull the carpet back to cut it if you have recently tiled a room than was carpeted. If the tile is higher than the carpet, do you lay the head on the tile and drill the tackless bar into the flooring? Do you add a piece of wood under the threshold to ease the transition? "Drill into the floor" is very vague and non descript. -
willinsatx
Sep 09, 2007
Does not include instruction on bending the threshold "head" back over the carpet. Does not include the possibly of replacing tackless strips if you pull the carpet back to cut it if you have recently tiled a room than was carpeted. If the tile is higher than the carpet, do you lay the head on the tile and drill the tackless bar into the flooring? Do you add a piece of wood under the threshold to ease the transition? "Drill into the floor" is very vague and non descript.
