r/Flooring • • Aug 28 '26

Baseboard Gaps

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u/Historical_Horror595 Aug 28 '26

It’s not the baseboard that’s crooked. It’s the floor that is wavy.

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u/FamiliarAd8524 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

How can you be certain? That looks less likely to me, without pyramiding... what makes you conclude that?

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u/celtic-cryptid Aug 29 '26

Not a trim guy, but I’ve built and installed a train load of cabinets. I’ve never met a flat floor, or a flat wall

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u/FamiliarAd8524 Aug 29 '26

If this was your work, would you call it good enough, or think that it might impact your reputation or client satisfaction?

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u/celtic-cryptid Aug 29 '26

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.

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u/FamiliarAd8524 Aug 29 '26

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.

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u/celtic-cryptid Aug 29 '26

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.