baseboard installation with carpet::After painting and repairs, i am thinking of replacing the baseboards with something nice looking baseboard installation with carpet

baseboard installation with carpet

baseboard installation with carpet

baseboard installation with carpet::After painting and repairs, i am thinking of replacing the baseboards with something nice looking.
Dear lisa: it is neither costly, nor hard to do.
I bought my first house many years ago at a foreclosure auction.
Ahh, the excitement of an auction on the courthouse steps frenzied buyers each looking to outfox the other and get a killer deal.
I had visions of being in a trading pit on wall street during a huge bull run.
As luck would have it, nobody else bid on the house.
The first thing i did was paint the place and replace the carpet.
For a little elegance, i installed some baseboard molding and door casing that i stained a natural oak color and varnished to a high gloss.
What a difference this made.
The custom look made the home warm and inviting.
To change the baseboards and casings, first remove the old ones without damaging the walls.
You can do this by placing a scrap block behind a hammer and slowly prying off the old baseboard and casings.
This will prevent tearout of the paint and wallboard where a painter may have filled gaps using caulk.
The cost for new baseboard and door molding varies depending upon type and style.
This is up to your taste and your budget.
Installing the door casing comes first.
Measure the lengths of the pieces you will need to surround the door, and add a little for the mitered corners.
It is much easier to stain wood while standing up in your garage, than it is to do lying down on your floor.
Use scrap wood cut to 45 degrees and hold them up to the corners.
Although the corners should be a perfect 90 degrees, sometimes they are not.
Adjust the saw and cut both pieces at the new angle.
After the pieces are cut, secure them to the jamb using 4d nails.
If you are using hardwood trim, make sure you predrill the holes for the nails, if not, your trim will split and your vocabulary will grow.
You will have to touchup the finish wherever you filled a nail hole.
Start the baseboards by cutting the length for the longest wall first.
Roughcut the pieces for the rest of the room.
There are two ways to get a great looking inside corner.
Coping is cutting the profile of the baseboard into the end of the piece that intersects it.
To cope an inside corner, cut one end at a 45degree angle, as if you were cutting an inside miter.
baseboard installation with carpet::It covers the base of the wall
where the floor and the wall meet baseboard installation with carpet