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Front door, into a stairwell (tenement flat).
Got a few m2 of this nice fancy boi flooring.
Flat door has been moved before at least once, over a hundred years ago, so floorboards of inside do go outside. Makes it fun to get a threshold system that works.
The floor in the hallway has a massive fall across its width, 25 to 30mm so most door seals won't work.
Carpet going inside ontop of thin ply and then underlay.
My idea, ply and level the concrete to floorboard situation so that I can run a single piece of material across where the threshold would be. Run the rest of thr flooring at the same angle as the door originally was, so that is got a strong single piece for a perimeter (round over with a router, or maybe a brass stepper strip on concrete side).
Route a smoke/fire seal strip into the front door all the way round, if it keeps smoke and fire in place it'll do something toward keeping my stinking neighbours weed stank out. Plane the door to get a consistent fit.
Then either route some kind of magic carpet gripper strip onto the "threshold" indoor side, or maybe just regular grip strip will be enough, as the joint will be the equivalent of a carpet upto a skirting board.
Trying to achieve a step down into flat onto carpet with no gap for dirt to collect between threshold and carpet, and as little draft as possible.
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