Place the baseboard on the wall.
Adding baseboard to floor over carpet.
Baseboards are often installed before flooring since they must be finished in place with either stain or paint and this is much easier without worrying about staining the hardwood tile or carpet.
To place the baseboard properly keep one fourth inches of space between the baseboard and the surface of the floor.
If you are not intending to install quarter round or base shoe the baseboard should be.
So after the floors were laid it was going to be impossible to get the old out.
Take a carpenter s level and place it over the board.
Try adding painters tape over the baseboard for protection.
However when installing the baseboard later painting and applying caulk can be a more tedious task to avoid mixing it in the carpet.
I ordered one 8ft.
How to install new base trim over an existing carpet.
It does fit right over the top beautifully.
The carpet installer can run the tack strip and carpet right up next to the wall.
You can see here how the back of the molding is carved out to fit right over my existing molding.
Piece for this project.
Professional looking baseboard installation can be achieved with a compound miter saw that can cut 45 degree corner angles at the molding ends.
If you decided to lay your carpet before installing the baseboard around the bottom of your walls in your home you actually have a somewhat.
My existing baseboard is really narrow not anywhere near as wide as the sample the manufacturer shows.
Baseboard molding is fitted to the bottom of a wall for decoration and to hide unsightly blemishes and carpet fray.
Here is a picture to show you how it fits over my baseboard.
The floors are higher than the carpet so the bottom of the base was way down under the flooring.
If you plan to install baseboard moulding before adding carpet it needs to be installed 1 inch above floor level to allow room for both pad and carpet.
With the help of the carpenter s level make sure that the baseboard is placed in the right way.