Tips to level up your baseboard install
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- čas přidán 8. 11. 2023
- Here’s how we scribe our baseboard after the floor install and three tips every good builder should consider.
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BEEN TRIMMING CUSTOM HOMES FOR 52 YEARS...still at it actually. No one said ever...are the baseboards level.
Same. Professional trim carpenter now retired. First thing I said when I saw the video pop up "who levels baseboard?"
I have never seen anyone ever level any trim. In fact the "eye" is much more important than level/plumb. No one wants to ask "is the floor out of level or is it the base that is out of level?
Usually the floor is the problem.
4 years Later, you will have a completed baseboard throught your home...
Right.. people really trying to show off for youtube.
This is how we do high end trim here in central FL minus the laser (although it’s a good idea) I’ll throw a level on stuff and measure for parallel to outlets, window aprons, etc. scribe it all down even n tight people pay for that $$$
I have never seen anyome uses a laser level for baseboard, never!
Laser is a good idea.. I guess.. If it's new construction. Old houses can be significantly out of level.. Like 1/2" or more across a room.. Not worth all the effort and it would be more noticeable if the bottoms were all cut 1/2"
Not only do I precut my trim. I also prime and paint it before install. Then I just tackity tack it in place with a little touch up at the end. Easey peasey
Nice. Make a video and share with us how it looks?
Yes production!
Production mentality works if your the one that framed it and finished it but every single house I’ve been in, the walls and doors aren’t actual 90s so there’s always new bevel cuts that need to be made on the trim
Yeah, I think he just meant not nailing it in until the end. You still custom cut, scribe, and cope all the pieces for where they go. You put them in place (dry fit) to make sure they’re right. But you don’t nail them in until the end.
It doesn’t seem like it would save much time, but if you’re doing a bunch, it does actually go faster to not be switching between steps. You can get in a groove with a step and go faster doing that same step to multiple pieces.
I’ll do this with like cutting up onions too. If I’m cutting up several, I find it faster to cut them all in half, then peel them all, then do the slices in them all, then cut across to dice. It honestly does go much faster that way.
All the time nobody takes the time to plumb and square the framing and old white man taught me how to frame and build story poles and we always plumbed and squared the walls with kickers and checked again and the. Sheeted. Nice guy worked his whole life passe when he retired at 82 passed at 83
Cut your biggest pieces first - this way if you make a mistake, you can use the mistaken piece for smaller pieces.
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Always longest pieces first!
True Is production mentality make sure your floor is perfect so you're not scribbling base.
I don't trust my measurements enough to cut the whole room first.
If you walk in and start your measurements next to a door, it's hard to get wrong, either carry a scrap piece to help with your scribe measurements or learn the thickness.
I do tricks like sectioning off each type of cut in the room. Square cuts i draw a square on my scrap and list measurements
Scribe i labelled S
Long is L
But then you also have to provide a side for your scribes/ cuts.
If you walk into the room and the flat wall is on the left of the door, you label left, same if opposite applies. This will then be the side of your scribes for the room. Starting with a flat piece next to a door is best because you can cut smaller allowing for the expansion and contaction next to the arch, therefore never pushing your door out of wack.
The rest dont matter as much as they fall in next to a wall and can either be covered by your next scribe or be tight against the wall.
And for measuring long to a scribe you simply measure the wall. The long to short point of the skirting will be the same measurement
Thanks for the tips. I don't do much trim work but we're remodeling our house good time to practice so I'll try your techniques. Thanks again
@user-hh6hd5sn1k dont forget to add a nail behind the skirting when placing next to archs, clout or soffit nail. Helps make that skirting extra flush when you shoot it and tap it to meet
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It’s d only way to do it
I just think it’s funny that all the methods that were described were over the top fine finish craftsmanship style, and the outside miter that was shown at the end being put together was anything but.
Use an angle finder, miter saw protractor, to find your inside (using mdf, not coping) and outside angles so your corners don’t look like the last one in this vid.
Was wondering if anyone else saw that.. thank God it's paint grade
Wow, I've been doing it wrong for forty-years!
What happens when you are doin 2 rooms. Are u having to go round house and find lowest point to set lazer ??
I have never seen or heard of anyone leveling their baseboard.
You can’t use a laser level if no one else has. Floors are usually not level. You have to go with what you’ve got
Some good tips here. See Robin Clevett's skirting (base) board guide too which adds more detail.
Do you ever find the stain flashing if you only do the edges first or are you sure to do the entire course?
And make sure you have plenty of caulk on hand.
Don’t use a laser for skirtings 😂😂😂😂😂
Whenever guys claim to cut entire rooms or floors of base or crown at once in advance, I wonder if they apply this method to bright work or only to paint grade. Also, this technique seems limited to new construction. We renovate lots of older structures. It would take a better mechanic than me to precut all without inviting trips back to the saw and/or wasted stock. In my experience, wall corner and scribe conditions can make a piecemeal approach more reliable if the existing conditions are irregular and the required standard is perfect joints. I
I only do it in new builds on paint grade . Especially in brilliant where you get £900 to 2nd fix a 3 bed house . So door stops, architrave and skirting need to done in a day 😂
@stephentoby8750 Understood. Knowing how to adjust to job conditions and client/budget constraints or requirements is what makes a pro. My comment was a reaction to the many IG and YT posters who declare, withiut caveat, that you can blow through entire floors of trim with virtually no individual fitting. Cheers!
You’re correct, there’s a time and place.
Hahaha homeowner wonders why baseboard cost more than the floor to be laid
Try using a finish blade on that trim first 👌
Or install your 1x8 first then install your floor. Just like in the old days.
I dont get why people like making dust plumes and leaving dust bunnies all over the place with sanders. Scribe with a knife, run it through the table saw with a back bevel, block plane to the scribe. The way it looks when you plane to where it's scored is obvious with the way the shavings fly off. Very fast, efficient, and perfect. Just gotta trust your scribed markings.
Sets laser and forgets to set it on the laser line lol
Judging how bad that outside miter cut 😂 was. why not measure everything once it doesn’t matter how it comes out.
If you’re the one who framed the house and your floors that goofy that you need a dang laser to make your base trim straight. I think you have bigger issues.
Any suggestions what to do when the floor is bowed? The gap between the baseboard and floor ends up being very uneven
Scribe to floor like said
Cut all your pieces and dry fit or loosely tack them in place level. Find the lowest point where you'll have the largest gap. The size of the gap is what you cut your scribe block at and scribe your line all the way around.
Either scribe or add shoe molding. For modern houses baseboard set into the wall and flush with the floor looks great. For most every other house, floor matched shoe mold adds a nice finishing touch.
Maybe you have a cut guy and a nailer guy and a coping guy and you all meet up at the end for spackle and putty!!!!!!!
Just cut the floor out to the exact width of the molding. It will sit down nice and tight.... joking boys
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Pre stain the floor perimeter??? Is that a joke. The color consistency will never be the same. I can't even believe that someone would recommend that
There is nothing production about cutting every piece before installing. Also pre staining would look HORRIBLE
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Dont level the base😂. Good luck with that one!
Laser level for baseboards?????? Cmon dude that shits only good for youtube.
There’s nothing productive about using a laser for baseboard… ridiculous🙄
Paid by the hour ?
You're in la la land I don't think you've ever even installed base
I may be in la la land but I’ve also installed 1000s of feet of base.
Mmmyea... you're obviously spoiled with flat floors and tight walls... Would like to see you get away with it on crooked bowed floors and bumpy plastered walls with iffy adhesion... without it looking like a pile, when you walk away from it. But then... that's 2-300 year old buildings for you.
Hold on a second......I've been watching your vids regarding your builds. If you have done everything perfect from foundation to framing, why would you need a laser for baseboard install? This is truly the dumbest idea I have ever seen.
Dont listen to this guy at all
No thanks
Laser really? Wtf are you doing is my thought and theni bet you spend alot of time going back to cut ahit if your not installing as you go i might go and 3to 5 at a time then i install themake sure they fit nice , smh
Shake away ✌️
😂😂😂 that's just stupid
Idk about a laser. I have never seen that and I seen a lot.