Installing trim means you've already gotten straight through the toughest parts of remodeling a room. Premise of baseboard trim is something akin to icing on a cake and should be taken on as an enjoyable task 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 drive you assuredly 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
Window Moldings
Before purchasing, resolve either or not you'll be painting or staining after the Premise of baseboard trim. This can make a distinction 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 length of trim. The seams are visible, but very effectively covered by paint. If you resolve on staining the trim, however, you need to go with continuous-grained baseboard. This higher-priced baseboard trim costs more but results in an spirited 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 Premise of baseboard trim at an exterior 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 habitancy see when they walk into a room, you want this one to have the best-looking baseboard possible. If you run short for some fancy or the other on the other walls and need to splice pieces, it won't be nearly so evident.
Angled and quadrate Ends
Use a power miter saw for Premise of baseboard trim at inside and exterior 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 quadrate 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 corner 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 quadrate ends until the room is finished.
Finishing Up
Use six-penny finishing nails to fasten the baseboard to the studs, which are regularly 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 in the middle of 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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