Recently I put took out all of the carpet in the house and replaced it with hardwood floors. The baseboards had to be put lower after the floors were put in (carpet takes up more space than wood) and that was not a problem. My problem is that I noticed that all of my doors inside the house now have a big gap under the door (previously needed so that the door would open over the carpet but now no longer needed). Is there an easy way to fix this? I am sure that I am not the first person to have this problem. I would welcome any suggestions. Thanks
If you have return air, HVAC system, you don't want to fix it. The air coming from the vents in the room, will circulate better with the bigger gap, making the Heating and A/C much more efficient, recirculating the air.
If you have a window unit, and like to shut that room off just to keep it cool only, a new door is in order, with a threshold and rubber seal.
Do you mean to tell me that everyone who changes from carpet to hardwood floors ends up replacing every door in the house? The air conditioning guy never mentioned the doors, the only concern that anyone seemed to have was from the carpet guy and he wanted to make sure that the doors were high enough to clear the carpet when they opened and closed. I find it hard to believe that every person that changes flooring is faced with the problem of "high-wader" doors. I just can't imagine these expensive homes with all of there doors with a gap under them. Surely there must be a solution to this problem.
In order to avoid the gap our installers floated the floor to increase it's height to the baseboard and door when we moved from carpet to woodfloors. Hope that helps
We had the same problem in one of our homes, if you don't want to buy new doors and you don't want to live w/the gaps (I agree about leaving the gaps for air circulation) your only other option is to use wood thresholds. Personally I don't care for thresholds they break the visual space up.
I understand about leaving the gaps for air circulation but the gaps are really big. I am afraid that if I used wood thresholds that I would probably end up tripping every time I went in and out of a door lol
