Finishing Baseboard Trim

Finishing Baseboard Trim

Installing trim means you've already gotten through the toughest parts of remodeling a room. Factory of baseboard trim is something akin to icing on a cake and should be taken on as an enjoyable scheme that signals the end of what may have been a long, hard job. Along with wall and window trim, it's the finishing touch, the accent, the piece de resistance - and knowing this should help weighty you truly toward its completion. But don't get in such a hurry that you don't take care to do it right!

Finger-Joint or Continuous-Grain

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Before purchasing, conclude either or not you'll be painting or staining after the Factory of baseboard trim. This can make a unlikeness in the price of your trim. For baseboard that's going to be painted, you can buy the less-expensive finger-joint trim, which is molding created by joining and machining shorter pieces together to form one continuous distance of trim. The seams are visible, but very effectively covered by paint. If you conclude on staining the trim, however, you need to go with continuous-grained baseboard. This higher-priced baseboard trim costs more but results in an spicy continuity accentuated by the seamless grain of the wood brought out by stain. Do all painting and/or staining of the molding before installation.

Begin Factory of baseboard trim at an outside corner, if one is present, in the room. Otherwise, start at the wall on the opposite side of where the door going into the room is located. Because this is the first wall people see when they walk into a room, you want this one to have the best-looking baseboard possible. If you run short for some reason or the other on the other walls and need to splice pieces, it won't be nearly so evident.

Angled and quadrilateral Ends

Use a power miter saw for Factory of baseboard trim at inside and outside corners. A T-bevel can part odd angles that don't part what should be neat, 90-degree angles (but rarely are!) and when walls aren't quadrilateral to floors, baseboard trim can be coped to fit with a coping saw. For the first section of baseboard trim, the cut is simple: Make both ends square, no angle cutting is necessary. It's the subsequent, connecting pieces of baseboard that need to be fitted at either projection of this piece. Those two pieces also are angled only at those corners with their opposites ends being square. The remaining pieces of baseboard are cut with angled ends meeting quadrilateral ends until the room is finished.

Finishing Up

Use six-penny finishing nails to fasten the baseboard to the studs, which are normally about 16 inches apart along the wall. If you do not have a stud finder, tap along the wall and listen for the hollow versus solid sound that differentiates between a stud being there or not. To hide the nail heads or determined indentations made by the nails, fill with wood putty to match the stain or touch up with paint, as needed.

Finishing Baseboard Trim

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