trim baseboard without removing old, no demo

[@hendrand]

The number of clever people on KZbin is astonishing. Strong work!

[@madeinthemidwest7812]

Appreciate the compliment

[@klosettreat]

Awesome idea. That didn't even cross my mind. Good job my house has the exact same situation. It was such mess to remove a small piece to take a look. Have the baseboard was buried. The wood was splitting and it was every where. I have nice wood floor sand I don't want to damage that. Great idea.

[@madeinthemidwest7812]

Thank you for your your kind words and sorry the video didn't find you sooner.

[@meleniumshane90]

Imagine the next homeowner puts another layer of flooring on top of this and another set of moulding on top of your moulding. 4 layers of floors and 3 layers of moulding lol. I actually found green shag carpet from the 70s underneath a built-in curio cabinet and tile installed over two layers of linoleum in the kitchen when I was remodeling my house. We ripped everything out and did LVP flooring & modern 5.75" baseboard moulding. What a huge difference a few galons of paint, new flooring, and new baseboard moulding makes.

[@georgebush6002]

Results looks very pleasing. Too late now, but if the back piece top was routed it could be used to make the baseboard taller by having it extend upward.

[@pearlgordon6162]

Looks fabulous!!! I am thinking of doing this and using a flat piece of wood between to allow staining. This would allow me to run wood flooring to existing baseboards ( no wall damage and no mini looking base) and stain all. What do you think?

[@treybailey21]

Wow. The same 5 pack that was $60 four years ago, are now $104. Regardless, thank you for the insight!

[@truthdogschell8473]

That’s AWSOME!!! Great job! I love it

[@user-fj5nl2nu2c]

I don’t know where in the hell you got that trim, but that exact trim for a 8 foot board is like $15 at Lumber Liquidators ! !

[@NicoleC510]

Bless your heart for this info ❤️cause I need that type of baseboard…I was like $40 for how many feet 🤨

[@mcsqueegee81]

Weird... I would just take old one off, thats thicker on the wall now, which I don't like. Seems proper to just tear out the old & install the new correctly. Not too hard to pull off baseboard

[@veng1974]

All you had to do was razor the caulk then take an oscillating tool at cut the nails in every stud and it would slide right up and the taller molding would hide any marks on the wall. Interesting idea though.

[@ts109]

I would go higher with your upper shim to create more detail and a shadow line.

[@samgriffin6221]

My god just pull the old base off!

[@olliecrow3547]

He explained why.

[@silverabec12]

Great idea!

[@ducnguyen-iv9px]

Thanks

[@pebblesintheshoe4438]

Learnt a lot

[@johnzee691]

Great idea

[@mikeymaryland6767]

Seems like less work to just remove the old trim then replace it…

[@josephhujbar5760]

What the chuck wagon back wood

[@taylorbokshowan5713]

Now you can put another layer of flooring down. 🙄

[@elonmusk8667]

I would just pull off the old base molding. This way cost more money because you need extra wood. SMH

[@jared6163]

Talk about making a room smaller

[@madeinthemidwest7812]

It is 1/2" on each wall. The loss of square footage would be the same if you installed shoe moulding but this is a much more desirable finished look.

[@fayekephart848]

Lol im sure he was joking

[@petergalarza2866]

Just take it out lol

[@olliecrow3547]

Did you not hear his explanation???

[@gary4738]

Ridiculous!

[@txmade4371]

That’s straight 🚮 bro, rip it out and start over. 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@erikwilson9498]

Its a waste of time and never looks as professional with coping.

[@cb4920]

What you should do is hire a professional who doesn’t buy crap from Home Depot or Lowes. Good lord that stuff looks absolutely horrible.

[@robertoinvests]

should of just stacked it on top would be taller and not loose footage

[@georgebush6002]

You could stack baseboards, but how would you integrate top of the old to bottom of the new baseboard?

[@robertoinvests]

@@georgebush6002 No need to integrate you have a new design If you look at the baseboards profile the more complicated it looks the better Dash may have to caulk but there is no issue at all try it looks really nice

[@georgebush6002]

@@robertoinvests You're probably right in principle but I think routing the bottom edge of the new piece would help maintain design cohesiveness

[@robertoinvests]

@@georgebush6002 Yes I agree sometimes we even flip them upside down so there’s no need to route and the top gives more like a crown molding appearance ... similar to what very old historic homes have I’m quite surprised how good it looks after trying at many ways

[@ts109]

part of the reason for doing this is to cover the gap for the flooring to expand and contract.

[@MrBiron1]

Hack