I posted a similar topic in the general section.

To summarize. I had over 1200 sq ft of engineered flooring installed.... It is continuous, throughout the condo... with transitions at one door threshhold where the wood is installed on either side and where tile in bathrooms, kitchen and laundry room transition to wood.

At one point.... the wood was installed starting at two parallel walls and meeting in the middle of a hallway. There was a Gap, of aprox one and 1/4 inch between the planks. this was filled using a t molding. People have tripped on this molding as it is not expected to encounter a piece of wood that is higher than the floor... in the middle of a hallway.

This is the second condo that these installers have completed this year and, in all other respects the installation seems flawless. They have a very good reputation.... but this solution is not safe and it is also odd looking. This is a huge condo and the kitchen is smack in the middle of what would appear as continuous hardwood floors. It makes sence that the hallway would be done last, if you could see the configuration.
See the arrow pointing to the molding in question. "]" = wood. "x" = molding. The molding seems to be placed in a random spot in the hallway.

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Have you ever heard of someone crafting a solution by using the engineered planks? What other solutions can you suggest?

I can't have people tripping over the molding and I don't want to have to paint it yellow!

Val, I suggest taking a digital picture, uploading it onto a free hosting website and then posting it here using the Img tags. I cannot seem to get my mind around exactly what you're talking about. I know it's a T-molding in a location that you think is inappropriate. Is the location next to the tiled kitchen floor? In the "middle" of the floor?

]] = wood planks
x = transition
x in red = transition placed to fill gap, between planks, in hallway
- = tile and walls (No wood --- assume transitions where tile meets wood.)

What alternatives would there be to fill this gap,that would not cause a trip hazard?


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http://kylerwelch.spaces.live.com/photos/

Here is a photo of where the molding has been placed in a hallway.

Note, the molding appears that it is located where the hallway begins, parallel to the wall of the room it connects to. Actually it is about 4 inches into the hallway.

thanks

Floating floors require expansion joints when going from large room to small room or when overall length exceeds the manufacturer maximum.

They had no choice, me thinks.

Yeah, that's one of the unfortunate things about floating floors. When I've come across scenarios like that in the past (large room of floating floor with a narrow hallway), I've "disobeyed" the instructions by changing directions and installing the hallway the longways and not using a T-mold. This only works for glue-up floaters, not click systems. Val, the installer probably should have warned you that T-mold would be needed there before the floor was installed. He didn't have to but it could have avoided some stress and disappointment.

Not the way I would have done that. It looks to me like there was possibly more than one guy installing ... and thats where they had planned to meet up.

That could have been a wrap-a-round location... where they started opposite that (in the kitchen) and worked both ways and then backed up and met again in the hallway.

She did mention this was a condo so i bet this was a wrap around situation as Jerry stated.

It also could be what Gary stated too but I dont know anyone who follows that manufacturer spec even though they all state it.

Unfortunately in both situations there is no solution but to take up the smaller portion of the floor and reinstall using some new material. This is because its a floating interlocking floor. If this was a nail down or glue down floor this could be remedied quite easily.