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No Baseboards and New Tile height difference

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7 years ago

Doing a remodel of the house. The old tile was travertine and much thicker than the porcelain wood plank stuff. The tile installers are starting to put it down and I noticed that when they go to finish up against the existing walls in some places it will be slightly short (not tall enough so that there is a small vertical gap between top of tile and bottom of sheetrock wall). Note that there has never been baseboards in the house.

The question is what do we do at this point? Can the tile installers put a little extra thin set around those edges? This will make it not level but does that really matter cosmetically or functionality-wise?

Do I get a sheetrocker to come in and cut out above the bottom and put in a whole new piece and then mud/texture/repaint?

Do I have the tile floor people rip up what they have done and float the floor more to get a higher base to start from?

What is the most economical/easier solution for time and money?

Thanks All!!

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Carpet One Columbia
7 years ago
Couple of quick suggestions: new painted wood base or use the floor tile as a base and "cap" it off at the top with a Schluter metal type of profile, or if your installer can has the capability, make a bullnose edge on the top of the base.
Vith
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
If you aren't going for a water resistant approach (say a bathroom or wet room) then just install baseboard....? Or as COC mentioned they can use the tile as a baseboard with something to finish it off on top.
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Executive Hardwood
7 years ago
If you like the no base board look then have dry wall guys com out and finish it all the way down to the floor that will probably the cheapest solution.
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Original Author
7 years ago
The concern with baseboard is that there is a lot of rounded edges in the area that uses this same flooring so we can't have baseboards in some areas and not others.

I'll ask sheetrockers to come out and give a solution. Ideally they have some type of tape or something and then mud that (since we have to paint anyways) rather than having to cut up the wall to put in an actual sheetrock piece.

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