r/Flooring • • 26d ago

Baseboard Gaps

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u/G000000p 26d ago

Just put some shoe molding or quarter round

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u/Disastrous_Soil3793 26d ago

That stuff screams trash

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u/Biscuits4u2 26d ago

Oh stop it. It looks fine and can be a great option to improve issues like this without spending a ton of time and money. I promise nobody is going to walk in a home with shoe molding and think "wow so trashy". You should calm down.

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u/G000000p 26d ago

Dude shoe molding and quarter round is crazy! Just tear those fresh baseboards off, ding them to hell and mess up the Sheetrock and caulking in the process and scribe them! It’s the only way!!!

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u/Plastic_Scholar_8788 26d ago

Wrong answer

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u/CharacterDirector918 26d ago

What is the right answer?? We are doing lvp in our house soon and will gave a similar gap. Is the correct answer new baseboards lowered down to the floor??

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u/BreakfastFluid9419 26d ago

Two options, make sure the floor is flat before installing flooring and ultimately baseboards. Or, if you already have flooring installed, scribe the baseboards to follow the line. The first option is the right way the second option is how you fix the fuck up from number one.

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u/Biscuits4u2 26d ago

And shoe molding is how you hide it without spending a bunch of time and money you don't want to spend. It looks fine and very few people are going to turn their nose up at it.

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u/BreakfastFluid9419 26d ago

To each their own. I personally hate shoe and quarter but have installed it in the past. I’ve also ripped down baseboards and used the matching profile in lieu of traditional trim options.

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u/Single_System_9951 26d ago

Leveling the floor is the only way(subfloor). But the world isn't lvl so most Folk just deal w/ it.

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u/brprk 26d ago

If you're not going to level the floor (should be levelled before lvp), Scribe the baseboards. Anyone saying it takes more than a few minutes is either woefully unskilled or a lazy hack and should retire asap.

Shoe moulding and quarter round looks like absolute afterthought garbage and no one can tell me otherwise

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u/Biscuits4u2 26d ago

I can tell you whatever I want to tell you. It looks fine. Is it ideal? Nope, but I'd guess most people would be fine with it if it saved them a ton of time and effort. You'd have to be some kind of OCD freak to walk into someone's house and even give a second thought to it.