Flooring Before Baseboards

However when it comes to prefinished flooring i respectfully disagree.

Flooring before baseboards.

Remove the baseboards the day before the flooring installation so you can move furniture away from the walls. Use a utility knife to slice any caulk that secured the baseboard to the wall. The baseboards should be primed and painted with one coat. Builders prefer to do the baseboards first and then bring the tile right up to the tile.

Home owners generally prefer the look of doing the tile first and then installing the baseboard trim. Number the walls and corresponding sections of baseboards to easily match them up later. Interior doors and trim all should be done before the flooring. If it is installed with the tile up to the baseboard trim then you should leave about a 1 8 gap that you should fill will caulking.

First remove all obstacles vacuum clean the area before applying the caulk and paint the skirting board mopboard floor molding or base molding. Caulking the gaps in trim joints and the gap between flooring baseboards improve water impermeability of the floor. With unfinished hardwood always run the floor first.