Molding To High After Installing Vinyl Flooring

This gap will help ensure your flooring has enough room to expand and contract throughout the seasons.

Molding to high after installing vinyl flooring.

There is no hard and fast rule as to how high the baseboard. Wipe away or use a knife to peel away any adhesive that gets into the seams between planks. Installing a floating floor to a flush transition molding can potentially lead to buckling end joint peaking and squeaks later on. Any wood will work but chunks of 1 2 in.

Most glue down vinyl plank flooring needs to be rolled with a floor roller after installation to firmly and evenly seat the vinyl planks into the adhesive. Vinyl baseboard molding works well for commercial applications or high traffic areas in your home. Install the base shoe quarter round molding over the expansion gap created by your new hardwood flooring. Cut the blocks and tuck them into the gap every few feet.

Smartcore 0 71 in x 94 49 in blue ridge pine plastic floor quarter round. Scrap plywood are ideal. When attaching the base shoe quarter round nail the molding into the bottom of the existing baseboard and not into the flooring itself. Item 1524924 model lmqsu00603.

Once your flooring is down install shoe molding to cover the expansion gap between the flooring and the base trim photo 7. When you re installing baseboards over vinyl wood or plastic laminate floors the best way to handle gaps between the drywall and the flooring is to shim the gap with narrow blocks of 1 2 in wood. Although vinyl flooring is flexible it will separate if you install it over an uneven surface so if the concrete has high spots you need to grind them down and if it has low spots or cracks you need to fill them with concrete patching compound. Finish the molding to match the trim not the flooring.

Over lap moldings are designed to transition to other floors while still providing an expansion gap so the flooring can have freedom to expand and contact with indoor climate changes. Finish nails through the shoe and into the base trim.