Laminate threshold

[Vonnell]

I am having my shop fitted with laminate flooring and am woried that the new threshold the fitters have shown me might be a trip hazard for customers. Can anyone advise me as to the regulations involved? The new floor will be 15mm higher than outside. The threshold looks to be about an inch.

 

[breezer]

anything is a trip hazard if you are not looking / distracted.

why not ask them this is a DIY forum after all.

other thing make a slope

 

[big-all]

anything over about 6mm could constitute a trip hazzard
if its 25mm high i would get a bit of 95mm widex13mm thick hardwood
i would taper the last 75mm down to 5mm then radius the last 5mm to half a pencil round

i would then place the strip 12mm from the floor for expansion and use a normal flat metal trim to bridge between them

i have purposly made the wood thinner by 2mm to start the slope down hill at the first opertunity

i would normaly suggest a 21mm thick bit of wood with a 16mm rebate and a 10mm overlap but in a commercial situation the 5mm thick front edge onto the floor would be vunerable to dammage hence the topping with a metal strip

 

[awbcm]

Let’s call a spade and spade. When the fitters roll up ask them if this threshold they want to fit meets all the current heath a safety stands regarding trip hazards etc. If they say “yes mate fitted hundreds” them ask them to put it in black & white and watch there faces.

I would have thought in a shop all floors should be flat and level.

May be something like this would do the job

 

[Vonnell]

Thanks chaps, looking on Door Furniture Direct, it looks like the fitters have spec'd a D-shaped threshold come draught excluder. The bevelled threshold on the web looks better to me.