New flooring hits the door and won't clear
Adding thick layers like screed, underlay, and laminate raises the floor height so it blocks the bottom of swinging doors and fails to slide neatly underneath door frames. This leaves homeowners stuck trying to figure out how to trim the door down or get the planks to fit past the frame without leaving gaps.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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New flooring hits the door and won't clear
- 1Searching for a retrofit low-profile threshold or threshold extensionDid this help you?
- 2Modifying or replacing the existing threshold while maintaining a watertight sealDid this help you?
- 3Using a multitool on top of a scrap piece of LVP to trim the bottom of the door frame so the flooring can fit underneathDid this help you?
- 4Trying an angled contour cut with the frame under the trimDid this help you?
- 5considering placing marble transition on the tile side under the door and finishing the lvp to slide in both sidesDid this help you?
- 6trying to see how an lvp transition strip looks under the door instead of tileDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The problem is that the finished floor (screed + underlay + laminate) will be higher than the clearance underneath the opening door, so the door will hit the finished floor.”source ↗
“how do I get it under the door frame there? Can I just slide a tiny rectangle of LVP underneath?”source ↗
“The problem is I’m lining it up with the baseboard so I don’t get coverage under the door frame”source ↗
“One of the last things we are trying to figure out is the transition leading from our basement hallway into a full bath.”source ↗
“However, there is just less than a quarter inch of space under the door if we did tile and would need to undercut the door.”source ↗
“We've never cut a door and trying to avoid having to cut but would prefer to do the job right and make it looks the nicest while also preventing water in between gaps as the shower is close by to the door.”source ↗
Where this came up
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