A Transition strip for the Full bathroom

Last spring I installed bamboo flooring in the full bathroom, it was only 5/8” taller than the maple floor of the hall way so I planned to buy a pre-fabricated strip. That was a painful moment at the checkout when it rung up at $50, I didn’t see a price listed on the shelf- which was weird, I don’t disagree.  But I stomached it and brought it home to find out that it was the wrong height.

So I brought it back to the lumber yard and instead of getting the other one- I must have picked up a ¾” one at first, I asked for a 2x4 of maple and figured I could make my own, like Bryna had done with the table saw. The salesman looked at me and said “That is a really expensive piece of lumber”

and I said, “ok, well how much?”

“$17!”

I felt puzzled, “but sir, I just returned a $50 item”

“Yes, but that was already cut”

Well my pocket book doesn't care about that.

So I got the maple 2X4. I made a template out of a brown paper bag, I was either feeling very green and wanted to recycle or I was just feeling lazy and that is that was in reach.

I checked the template against the floor and then used it at the saw to try to get the blade lined up where I wanted it.

It wasn’t pretty coming out of the table saw, but nothing that a random orbital sander can’t fix.

Most important it fit.