Install Floor Base Molding

Install the baseboard right over them tight against the floor molding.

Install floor base molding.

Cut your baseboard to a custom size you want by placing it in a wall corner and drawing a cut line. Watch some tips and tricks on how to install truchoice base moulding. You ll learn how to install baseboard mol. You all asked for a review when i got it.

Install the base shoe quarter round molding over the expansion gap created by your new hardwood flooring. For a more traditional look add cap molding to the top of the baseboards. Here s how to install wide baseboard molding over existing narrow molding. Shim the floor gaps to avoid tilted baseboards.

Using your penciled scribe line as your guide cut your base piece so it fits in the proper space. In this quick video john from our home from scratch removes his short baseboard molding and installs taller trim. Doing so will prevent any damage to the materials in your work area. Semi gloss paint or eggshell paint.

To complete the look add shoe molding. Cope inside joints and miter outside joints gluing as needed to secure. It is a composite wide molding that is sculpted to fit right over your narrow molding without having to remove it. Brad nail gun buy on amazon caulking gun.

When attaching the base shoe quarter round nail the molding into the bottom of the existing baseboard and not into the flooring itself. Continue to measure cut and install the baseboard molding around the room. When i showed you guys my inspiration ideas for redoing the hall bathroom i showed you this new molding idea. Place shoe molding across lower edge of baseboard.

Lay your baseboard pieces on the floor along the edges of your wall to start. Slots are either 90 degree or 45 degree left or right. 6 easy steps for installing baseboard molding on uneven floor step 1. It s best to keep the nails at the bottom of the base above the gap so they go through drywall not air.

When you get to an outside corner set the first piece to that it extends past the outside corner. Using chunks of 1 2 inch scrap plywood cut the blocks and tuck them into the gap every few feet. Place the molding in a miter box lining up the cut mark with the appropriate miter box slot. Before starting the work you will need to gather the tools to install your baseboard molding.

Nail or glue the pieces in place. Use scarf joints to splice trim pieces on long walls.