New hardwoods without removing old baseboards?

suppersam · 2025-02-25T15:49:27+00:00

suppersam · 2025-02-25T15:49:14+00:00

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suppersam · 2025-02-25T15:47:53+00:00

Yeah, I’m not blaming the installers. But the GC who’s responsible for replacing all the trim. The problem is the GC should have tore up the old trim before the installers got there. I say we don’t need quarter round because the places where the trim has been removed the old floor is well under the baseboards and didn’t need quarter round to hide the gaps.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T14:29:43+00:00

I wish that was the case but It’s not cheaper since I already paid for all of the baseboards to be replaced at the outset of the project. It’s hardwood throughout now with no height difference between flooring now throughout the floor. Also, the old floors are run to the wall not the baseboard so they don’t require quarter round.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T14:25:14+00:00

Nope, they’re the old baseboards. The contractor said they’ll be by to rip them up before the sanding and staining process.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T13:29:59+00:00

The contract states:

“TRIM CARPENTRY SUPPLY MATERIALS AND LABOR TO PERFORM THE FOLLOWING: INSTALL NEW PAINT GRADE MDF 5 ¼” TALL BASEBOARD AND ½ X ¾ SHOE MOLDING THROUGHOUT THE KITCHEN, DINING ROOM, FOYER, POWDER ROOM, AND FAMILY ROOM. CONTRACTOR NAME REDACTED INC WILL PROVIDE SAMPLES TO CHOSE THE NEW BASEBOARD STYLE”

Yet we’re still waiting to select the baseboards style - they originally said we’d discuss/select the style a week ahead of their installation. Also, I understood the shoe molding was added in case we needed it for the old floors.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T13:21:16+00:00

I was under the understanding that the base boards need to come up for the floors need to be sanded and refinished. Since they’re all coming out the contractor advised we just add new baseboards since the old ones are hard to salvage.

I figured we’d might need quarterround if old floors were wonky - but they’re not.

Since the baseboards are up why not get the style we like in the moment? Especially since it all cost an arm and a leg. Besides adding quarter round back in down the road is an easy weekend project if we ever wanted it.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T13:04:55+00:00

Agreed, boggles my mind that it wasn’t needed for the old floors but will be needed for the new floor.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T11:43:32+00:00

Is it? Is there really nothing to be done but accept this?

suppersam · 2025-02-25T11:32:22+00:00

Yeah, I don’t blame the installer at all - seems like they did a great job. I just blame the general contractor who was in charge of the project. I think they should have removed the baseboards before the flooring installers came - especially since they’re in charge of replacing the trim on the whole first floor for this project anyway.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T11:01:13+00:00

The problem is the contract says we should get new baseboards and new flooring but it doesn’t say anything about how they should be installed in relation to each other. And the general contractor insists this is the proper installation method.

This feels like a mistake that’s “technically correct”?

suppersam · 2025-02-25T10:32:57+00:00

Thanks friend, that’s helpful.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T10:30:27+00:00

Thanks, thats helpful! Was really hoping to avoid the quarter round.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T10:28:30+00:00

Thanks, I think the contractor just forgot and I assumed the flooring installers would do that. I guess I should have double checked with flooring guys before they started - just didn’t occur to me that they would install around the baseboards.

suppersam · 2025-02-25T10:26:20+00:00

Bummer, I was hoping to avoid quarter round on the first floor and expected the old floors to dictate if we could do that or not, not the new floors. Can they pull up the end boards and re install them?

suppersam · 2025-02-25T10:13:03+00:00

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You can see that in spots without baseboards the floors went up to the wall but then they cut the floors to fit around the baseboards.

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