Floor Protection Before Baseboard

Removing and reinstalling the baseboards during this process can.

Floor protection before baseboard.

When installing baseboards before carpet ask the installer how large of a gap to leave between the floor and the trim e g. If the baseboards were installed directly on top of the floor without a gap it will be difficult to paint them entirely with the carpet in place. Allow you to get new baseboards or repaint your existing baseboards before they go back on the wall. You have to apply on the floor where baseboards and floor meets.

Ensure your baseboards are positioned properly considering the new height of your floors. Caulking helps baseboards from damage due to spillage of water. Must let you know removing flooring is a great time to paint baseboards before reinstalling new flooring. With unfinished hardwood always run the floor first.

Then he advised us that the best but more expensive way would be to scribe the floor to the baseboard. We agreed and he said he would install the baseboard about 1 2 above the floor so the hardwood could be scribed to fit. If the washing machine or its hoses leak onto the floor the leak can spread onto the hardwood in nearby rooms on the same level or drip down onto the basement. However when it comes to prefinished flooring i respectfully disagree.

When we do the interior trim and the prefinished bamboo flooring in a house or any prefinished flooring for that matter we always do all the trim first using 3 4 spacers or whatever width the floor you are using is under the doors cased openings and baseboard. If the carpet runs all the way to the wall or under the baseboards or. Stops before the baseboards leaving a gap at the edge of the carpet to work with and. The carpet installer can run the tack strip up to the trim then roll excess carpet under the trim.

Problem is when we met with the flooring people the baseboard was not up 1 2 but flush to the floor. Because not only perfect time to paint woodwork not having flooring in place but adds to the ease not having to carefully mask protecting flooring first before painting. The caulk is applied on the top of the baseboards where the baseboard leaves.