Put Baseboard After Flooring

Position cut baseboards on top of new hardwood or laminate flooring and insert two finish nails into the baseboard below the nailing guides.

Put baseboard after flooring. You don t have to deal with the baseboard perhaps being placed to low and not be able to get the wood flooring under it. However when installing the baseboard later painting and applying caulk can be a more tedious task to avoid mixing it in the carpet. It saves you from having to cut each piece when installing new baseboard but you will have to put time into cleaning the old baseboard and maybe repainting it. Fill any nail holes and apply any touch up as needed.

One nail should be about inch from the top of the. However when it comes to prefinished flooring i respectfully disagree. It s really the correct order to do things. Baseboard installation baseboards are often installed before flooring since they must be finished in place with either stain or paint and this is much easier without worrying about staining the.

Install the base shoe quarter round molding over the expansion gap created by your new hardwood flooring. Because the flooring can be placed next to the wall. Also if you put the flooring in first the baseboard can rest on top of the flooring and get a much better fit. Baseboards should be installed after laminate.

Removing the baseboard so you can reinstall it after the new flooring is installed is one way to save some money. If adding baseboards after carpet is laid it should be installed at the same height as without carpet. 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. When attaching the base shoe quarter round nail the molding into the bottom of the existing baseboard and not into the flooring itself.