Z bar carpet - Aluminium Single Z joins carpet to hard flooring and looks the part for years to come
Give your flooring the professional touch
The Z bar carpet - Single Z door threshold is an elegant and secure way to join a carpet to a hard floor in a doorway or across a room. Ideal for joining carpets to hard flooring such as ceramic tiles, wood, laminate, stone and rubber.
Manufactured with a high quality, solid brass bar, finished in a choice of 10 finishes.
Suitable for carpet around 9-12 mm thick - the thicker the carpet, the more it will need to be compressed onto the pins.
They are commonly known by fitters as a 'Z bar', reflecting the profile shape of them.
The two floors to be joined should be level with each other, so that the Ali single Z lies flat. Should the hard floorcovering be slightly higher than the carpet by just a few millimeters, then stack 3mm thick MDF strips under the Ali single Z. This will therefore raise the base of the single Z so that the visible bar neatly sits over the top of the tile edge whilst the gripper pins on the carpet side lie level with the underlay and can hold the carpet under tension.
Once fitted, the Ali Door Bar Single Z can be 'napped down' with a carpeted wood block, which will give the carpet an extra firm grip on the pins and can reduce the height by 3mm.
Available 900mm & 1800mm.
Width options
The visible bar or top is 30mm (just over 1") wide and approximately 4mm thick.
Fitting tips for the Z bar carpet - Ali Single Z
This Ali Single Z Bar is the same product as the Double Z profile, which joins carpets to carpets. When joining a carpet to a hard floorcovering, simply peel off one side of the metal hook base along the scored groove using a pair of pliers and turning anti clockwise. This is easily done and takes a couple of minutes.
Cut to length with a sharp hack-saw.
Stick, using a propriety adhesive, nail or screw (avoiding any underfloor heating).
Should the carpet lie lower than the hard flooring it is being joined to, the Easyshims are a simple way to create a gentle ramp under the carpet, to raise it up to a suitable level for the Z bar to lie flat. Please click the VIDEO tab to see how this works.
To prepare the Z bar, score down the shown groovePeel off the excess base strip with a pair of pliers
Co-ordinating door bars and flooring trims in this range
We sell a choice of 4 brands of door thresholds and floor trims: Premier, Feline, Ali and AL. Each brand has its own selection of unique styles and finishes. We therefore recommend you choose from the same range if you wish them to complement each other. You can do a search by selecting the relevant range name from the list of options shown under "TYPE" (left of web page).
