Installing New Hardwood With Base Trim In Place

Scraps of standard base will do.

Installing new hardwood with base trim in place.

There are four types of baseboard corners you ll make to install baseboards. You can fix a tilted baseboard by raising it above the drywall gap. Diy basement finishing course. This technique also leaves more of that handsome baseboard showing above the.

Last fall when we decided to rip up the carpet and lay our own hardwoods in our 1500sf upstairs and replace all the stair treads it snowballed into painting all the ceilings all the walls all the closets and installing new base and shoe and painting all the trim in four beds a hall and a bonus room. Cut it if necessary so the end is offset from the end of the board in the previous row by a minimum of 6 inches. How to install floor trim molding. Put the end against a 3 4 inch spacer and seat the edge snugly against its neighbor.

The finish work takes quite a bit of time and should not be underestimated. The hardwood floor finish trim work. With the majority of the flooring now in place it may seem like the project completion is now merely minutes away this is unfortunately not true at all. Put the first board of the new row in place.

Once you have gathered all the tools here are the steps to installing your new baseboard molding. Cut a few 3 8 to 1 2 in.