Installing New Hardwood With Base Trim In Place

Put the end against a 3 4 inch spacer and seat the edge snugly against its neighbor.

Installing new hardwood with base trim 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. The finish work takes quite a bit of time and should not be underestimated. You can fix a tilted baseboard by raising it above the drywall gap. Once you have gathered all the tools here are the steps to installing your new baseboard molding.

Scraps of standard base will do. How to install floor trim molding. Cut a few 3 8 to 1 2 in. There are four types of baseboard corners you ll make to install baseboards.

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. Diy basement finishing course. 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. 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. 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.