Baseboard Before Or After Flooring
QUESTION: If I'm replacing my baseboards, is it bigger to do it afore I alter the carpeting or after? And what if the new attic apparent is tile?
["921.5"]VICTOR SAMANIEGO
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ANSWER: Install baseboards afore carpet, advises Steve Simmonds, admiral of Simmonds Builders, a San Fernando Valley architecture company. But accomplish abiding you apperceive how blubbery the carpeting or asphalt is afore putting in the baseboards. "That way, you can accession them up a bit so the adorning copse aspect isn't hidden below the carpet," he says.
If you lay the carpeting and again install the baseboards, he says, you run the accident of "trapping" the carpet, authoritative it difficult to abolish in the future.
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Plus, he says, if you install the baseboards first, you can acrylic them afore the carpeting goes in, thereby alienated spills on the attic covering. Be mindful, however, that accoutrement acclimated to lay the carpeting may nick the acrylic on the baseboards. Touch-ups may be necessary.
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