No matter how careful you are baseboards are bound to get chipped and damaged by furniture legs or errant feet.
Carpet repair at baseboard.
Baseboard is installed before.
Carpet installers often tuck the ends of the carpet under the baseboards for a clean finished look.
When this carpet is removed and replaced with hardwood vinyl or other floor coverings you might spot a gap between the bottom of your baseboards and your new floor.
In addition the tack strip will be under the baseboards.
Take it from a 31 year professional installer put down the baseboards first leaving a gap at the bottom for the very best.
Just be patient and do several c.
1st someday you will be replacing the carpet if you have the baseboards installed on top of the carpet you will have to remove them to pull up the old carpet.
You can even use shorter baseboards such as 2 3 4 inch high that also conform slightly in a vertical direction to follow waves in the flooring.
Repairing baseboards doesn t have to be hard but those unsightly cracks and chips can build up over time as a house settles.
If you happen to have thick 9 16 inch just over a half inch baseboards made of wood look for 7 16 inch baseboards made of polystyrene that hug the wall.
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