Attaching Floor Molding

Touch up the baseboard with primer paint.

Attaching floor molding. Work with the molding and adhesive for up to 10 minutes before it dries. While not so much an adhesive in the traditional sense of the word standard carpenters nails are still an. Special clamps hold miters together until the glue dries. The final piece is the base shoe.

Cut an inside corner joint a coped joint is used where the baseboards meet an inside corner joint. Nail it at an angle so that the nail goes downward into the wood. It is topped with a piece of cap molding which is small and bends easily to conform to variations in the wall. Caulk along the top edge and corner edges and nail holes.

What adhesive should i use for attaching molding to the wall. Next lay the other baseboard molding that will join the one already in place face down on the floor. Cut the base shoe a quarter round molding that goes at the bottom of the base molding to length and attach it with a finish nailer. I recently ordered four miter clamps and a special pliers type tool to install them and am amazed at how well they work.

Then apply construction adhesive at the top and bottom. Miter the corners as with the base molding. Lengths of scrap baseboard and put 45 degree angles on the ends. When applying the molding to the wall you will need to secure it on with common wall adhesive.

Employ the same methods for outside and inside corners scarf and butt joints on. Firmly press into place and hold tightly against the wall and lift off for one to three minutes before pressing back into place. It s an easy installation that costs little and gives your floors a precise polished look. Install shoe or cap moulding if using.

To make a coped joint butt one piece of baseboard flush against the wall at a 90 degree angle as in the previous step. Place the molding with adhesive up to the wall or area you are installing the molding to. To allow for seasonal movement of a wooden floor the base shoe is nailed at a slight downward angle into the baseboard not the floor with finishing nails. The nails won t hold if they re driven straight into the polystyrene molding.

Baseboard molding installations are very often finished off with an additional thin piece of molding called quarter round or shoe molding that covers the gap between the bottom of the baseboards and the floor. First hold the base molding against the wall after you cut it to length and look for gaps.