Installing New Hardwood With Base Trim In Place

The hardwood floor finish trim work.

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. Once you have gathered all the tools here are the steps to installing your new baseboard molding. There are four types of baseboard corners you ll make to install baseboards. 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 the last length to fit leaving a 3 4 inch expansion gap and nail it in place. 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. Diy basement finishing course. Cut a few 3 8 to 1 2 in.

Lay them flat on the floor every few feet and then cut the base to fit rest it on the spacers and nail it into place. 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. Put the end against a 3 4 inch spacer and seat the edge snugly against its neighbor.

Scraps of standard base will do. How to install floor trim molding.