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 Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: Installing Baseboards...(AKA F-YOU YOU STUPID BASEBOARD!) |
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Does anyone in here have experience installing baseboards? More specifically, installing basboards around rounded corners?
The wife and I took upon the task of installing 1200 sq. ft. of laminate flooring on our own. We are done with the flooring, but we are having trouble getting the rounded corners down when we install the new baseboards.
(side note...we pulled out the original baseboards and replced them with taller ones to place over the top of the 1/4 inch gap in the flooring near the wall. It prevents the use of quarter round and it makes the floors look super awesome).
Let me be the first to tell you that as easy as "click lock" flooring might look to install...it's a major pain in my ass. Thank God we're done. We just need to get this baseboard issue under control.
Anyhoo...if any of you have experience with this, let me know.
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Did you try: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=installing+baseboards+around+round+corners
What I've seen done around here is to do it just like a normal corner, cut at 45 degrees then take some caulk or filler putty and fill in the empty space... Simple, easy, cheap and it looks pretty good, too. Of course this would be more challenging if you used natural wood trim instead of painted trim... I can imagine that if your rounded corner is more than about 1" in diameter, this might not look so good...
If you want to get fancy, miter at 22.5 degrees and make two joints, but I think that could be a lot of work. It might be necessary when your corner round is more than an 1" in dia though....
EDIT: The first solution might be better in your case if you are trying to cover the corners where the laminate meets the rounded corner; otherwise you might also need to round the laminate floor to match the corner... Be sure to leave some room for expansion and contraction between the floor and the wall, too...
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: Installing Baseboards...(AKA F-YOU YOU STUPID BASEBOARD |
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| SLOTH wrote: |
| More specifically, installing basboards around rounded corners? |
I was thinking mitre too, John, and like you said, how rounded you could make it would depend on the size of the corners. 2 middle pieces at 45 degrees might look wierd, but 3 at 30 degrees might look ok, if you can make the pieces that small.
My bro's new house has squared corners 6" off of the floor, and then rounded corners above that. Are your rounded corners all the way down to the floor or your new boards are taller than the squared part?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: Installing Baseboards...(AKA F-YOU YOU STUPID BASEBOARD |
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| Bosc Ulrich II wrote: |
| SLOTH wrote: |
| More specifically, installing basboards around rounded corners? |
I was thinking mitre too, John, and like you said, how rounded you could make it would depend on the size of the corners. 2 middle pieces at 45 degrees might look wierd, but 3 at 30 degrees might look ok, if you can make the pieces that small.
My bro's new house has squared corners 6" off of the floor, and then rounded corners above that. Are your rounded corners all the way down to the floor or your new boards are taller than the squared part? |
The rounded corners are all the way to the floor and are approximately 1" around. The new baseboards we are installing are about 4.5 inches tall.
I made a few trial cuts with the 22.5 angle, but it's hard to set the angle since all angles are set in whole #'s (with one eye squinted to make sure it's ligned up correctly). They worked OK..it's definitely a challenge, though.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: Re: Installing Baseboards...(AKA F-YOU YOU STUPID BASEBOARD |
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| SLOTH wrote: |
| Bosc Ulrich II wrote: |
| SLOTH wrote: |
| More specifically, installing basboards around rounded corners? |
I was thinking mitre too, John, and like you said, how rounded you could make it would depend on the size of the corners. 2 middle pieces at 45 degrees might look wierd, but 3 at 30 degrees might look ok, if you can make the pieces that small.
My bro's new house has squared corners 6" off of the floor, and then rounded corners above that. Are your rounded corners all the way down to the floor or your new boards are taller than the squared part? |
The rounded corners are all the way to the floor and are approximately 1" around. The new baseboards we are installing are about 4.5 inches tall.
I made a few trial cuts with the 22.5 angle, but it's hard to set the angle since all angles are set in whole #'s (with one eye squinted to make sure it's ligned up correctly). They worked OK..it's definitely a challenge, though. |
That'd take some tiny pieces and gluing, and some really fineass mitre saw usage Tried a 30 angle?
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What would it look like if you just finished the corners on the baseboards at 90 degrees as usual, and just use filler at the top? Are you using painted trim or natural wood? I'll take a picture of what we did on the few corners that we rounded and post it...
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| the New Cunning Linguist wrote: |
| What would it look like if you just finished the corners on the baseboards at 90 degrees as usual, and just use filler at the top? Are you using painted trim or natural wood? I'll take a picture of what we did on the few corners that we rounded and post it... |
There would be a pretty large gap to fill in with caulking at the top, and the corner would be out a little futher than it needed to be to get around that 1 inch curve. I don't really mind, but the wife does. Less than perfect aesthetics have a tendency to bug the crap out of her.
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Then cutting a little corner piece at 22.5 degrees is all you can do. The other thing I've seen is to end the trim at or near where the corner round starts; but admittedly, when I've seen that done, I've thought, "What, did they run out of trim?"
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