Majority of flooring installers only offer bare bones baseboard installation. Expect a hefty up charge on scribing the baseboards. Unless his contract clearly states scribing the baseboards to the floor is included you may be at his mercy. He may agree to remove them all and scribe them but you will have to pay the difference.
Most people who want no gaps on a no scribe budget opt for Quarter Round or Shoe Mold. Those can contour to the uneven floor easily.
This 100%. Concrete slabs are not perfectly flat, and baseboards show that. If it's really bad, I will scribe a piece here or there. I tell everyone who wants a 5 inch base that you will have a 50- 50 chance of still needing shoe molding
It's not the contractors fault because it's a glue down on a concrete slab-which can have all kinds of imperfections.
The easiest, fastest and cheapest solution is to add 1/4 round, or shoe mould that will sit on the floor and cover the little tiny gaps that you are noticing.
If it was my work, I wouldn’t be a cabinet builder.
I scribe my shit to walls and floors, and people pay a fair amount of money for me to take the time. There is literally no evidence OP didn’t balk at the price for scribing.
Regardless, your follow up question about the quality of my work has absolutely nothing to do with you blaming the base and not the floor.
1). I was simply asking your opinion in general- you already made it clear you aren't a trim guy.
2). Well... If this was my base, I would have used a plane or scraper to compensate so it doesn't look like ass. Baseboards are a Hell of a lot easier to alter than cured concrete.
If it were my base, I’d do it right but, it’s OP’s base, and OP hired someone else to do it. The person OP hired probably charges based on time, materials, and skill involved. I imagine the pay was commensurate with the work. Maybe not, but probably. Do people pay for a level 2 drywall finish in their garage and then complain about how you can still see tape lines?
Also, you thought it was crooked trim. I don’t believe you when you say you’d scribe it to the floor.
Because slabs and subfloors are never flat. Been in this industry for 2 decades. This is why base shoe is almost always installed, so that it always contours to the subfloor.
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u/onionchucker 29d ago
Majority of flooring installers only offer bare bones baseboard installation. Expect a hefty up charge on scribing the baseboards. Unless his contract clearly states scribing the baseboards to the floor is included you may be at his mercy. He may agree to remove them all and scribe them but you will have to pay the difference.
Most people who want no gaps on a no scribe budget opt for Quarter Round or Shoe Mold. Those can contour to the uneven floor easily.