Joining Timber floor with Tile wall? - TilersForums.com

wau5 · Feb 12, 2017

Was about to do flooring in my bathroom however got in a dilemma about how to actually do it,
At first I wanted to butt-join the flooring straight up with tile and seal with colour matched silicon beading to cover the small gap and to make it a bit waterproof between the 2 surfaces.
The flooring is 20mm lacquered oak so hopefully will be ok with an occasional splash of water from the wetroom area if wiped off afterwards.
However since it's a 20mm oak it's bound to have some movement so It really wouldn't be probably wise to butt-join it with a tile specially with the wetroom tray where the massive forces from the seasonal movement can possibly compromise my wet-room cubicle? Ideally just for the sake of the good looks I would want to butt-join it with the tiled shower cubicle and leave a larger expansion gap at the other end of the room,however my common sense says not to do it, what options do I have here?
Leaving a proper 8-10mm expansion gap and covering with a strip of small beading? Not the look I would really want...
How would the pros here do it?

pic:

Flintstone · Feb 12, 2017

Personally I don't think having that flooring so close to the wet area is a wise idea

Deleted member 43753 · Feb 12, 2017

also the wall tiling would have sat with a spacing/expansion on top of the finished floor. So the wall tile cut to floor would be last after doing your flooring so your perimeter expansion would be covered by the wall tile

wau5 · Feb 12, 2017

cris alan said:
also the wall tiling would have sat with a spacing/expansion on top of the finished floor. So the wall tile cut to floor would be last after doing your flooring so your perimeter expansion would be covered by the wall tile

Yes that would probably have been the right way to do it, however was tiling a larger area for the first time so I kinda 'forgot' about it , actually I think I wanted to achieve the best possible tile finish without the flooring being there and getting in my way so just didn't thought about it much until I was finished

Amateurs.. I know

Tile Shop · Feb 13, 2017

Only way you can do it now is to lay the laminate, with the 10mm perimeter joint, then cover it with the Genesis EWA Trim (15mm deep), fixed with a good solid bead of silicone to prevent water getting behind it:

Internal Trim EWA - http://www.genesis-gs.com/products/metal-tile-trim/internal-trim-2/internal-trim-ewa

I've had a look on @Pro Tiler Tools website. Doesn't seem to appear on there but they might be able to order a few for you, as they do everything else from Genesis.