Installing New Hardwood With Base Trim In Place

Once you have gathered all the tools here are the steps to installing your new baseboard molding.

Installing new hardwood with base trim in place.

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. You can fix a tilted baseboard by raising it above the drywall gap. How to install floor trim molding. Scraps of standard base will do.

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. There are four types of baseboard corners you ll make to install baseboards. Diy basement finishing course. Put the first board of the new row in place.

Cut the last length to fit leaving a 3 4 inch expansion gap and nail it in place. Cut a few 3 8 to 1 2 in. Put the end against a 3 4 inch spacer and seat the edge snugly against its neighbor. Use 11 4 to 11 2 in long enough to penetrate the molding the drywall and drive at least 1 2 inch into the wall s base plate.

This technique also leaves more of that handsome baseboard showing above the. The finish work takes quite a bit of time and should not be underestimated.