Install Baseboard before flooring??
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Baseboards BEFORE flooring install? How does that work?
Comments (28)Well after reading this...it scares me. I've been in the industry for over 30 years, and there are pros for both methods as well as cons. Choose wisely as it can affect your future situations. First, one post talks about setting doors in on top of floors to eliminate cutting around casing. This is WRONG on many levels. First if the door is exterior it has to set directly on the main floor, either concrete or subfloor. If interior use a piece of 1/2 inch drywall for doors and for the base to leave a gap. If your doors already go all the way down just use a jamb saw to trim the casing and there will be no cut lines around them. This is why they make the saw. Also, think, if you put your doors, trim, or cabinets on top of a floor and then there is a problem with your floor, you have to remove it all. This adds risk and cost. But, if you use shoe mold or quarter round, then you never affect anything but that part. Imaging breaking $5000 worth of granite because you put flooring under your cabinets and couldn't get it out without removing them. Yes you could cut around them but what if water was involved? Do you want water there underneath where it can mold?. Shoe is cheap, quick and easy. Minimal added expense to protect the possibilities. You can remove flooring without affecting surface materials and vice versa. Sure, flooring installers like to do floor first because it's easier and faster with less cutting. But they don't pa for the problems that arise in the future. Think hard about saving a very small amount of money in the scheme of your project. I will NEVER do a job where the flooring is underneath, I'd rather just walk away and let someone else absorb the risk....See Morefloors butt into baseboard OR baseboard on top of floors...
Comments (6)Flooring is not my trade, but I did the floors in my house. Typical appears to be baseboards first, raised about the height of the finished floor, then shoe mold to cover the gap between flooring and the baseboard. I did the flooring and then installed the baseboards. That was for the tile and hardwood. We knew that if we wanted shoe mold, it could be easily added later. For the limited area of vinyl, the baseboards were first and then the shoe mold. We like the whole plan and have made no changes. I sprinkled the roachpruf in the perimeter gap just before installing the baseboards and shoe mold....See MorePaint Baseboards Before Installing?
Comments (4)His friend probably did and it gave him a false sense of security, as the paint seeped under the tape from the graining in the laminate. As it was not a pane of glass the tape was stuck too....See MoreBaseboards installed 3/4 inch above floor. Problem?
Comments (4)I agree with the previous responses - your carpet might work with a 3/4 gap. If not, try placing a strip of 1/4 inch plywood under the baseboard to reduce the gap to 1/2 inch....See Moresuezbell
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