Three bedrooms a dining room and large living room.
Baseboard refinish hardwood.
If your baseboards are looking weathered or chipping refinish the trim to restore its original function and appearance.
I m preparing to refinish the hardwood floors in my home.
Before floor refinishing with a sander you should pull up the shoe base moulding along where the floor meets the wall.
I was originally planning on just using a hand held belt sander around the baseboards possibly just pulling up and replacing the quarter rounds but i ve had a lot of people tell me to pull up the baseboards and sand the whole way to the plaster drywall.
Number or otherwise label each piece as you remove it to make it easier to put it back after refinishing the floor.
Position cut baseboards on top of new hardwood or laminate flooring and insert two finish nails into the baseboard below the nailing guides.
If this is the case then it s much easier and cheaper to simply add shoe molding after the floors are refinished instead of removing and re installing baseboards.
Step 1 clean the baseboards.
To begin use a damp towel to clean the baseboards.
With the quarter round off you can sand close enough to the baseboard that the quarter round covers up the areas that get missed by the sander.
If your hardwood floors were originally finished before the baseboards were installed it s possible that you might not have shoe molding.
One nail should be about inch from the top of the.
However over time the caulking and paint on baseboard trim tends to chip off.
Comintern jul 30 14 at 1 56.