Do You Install Trim Before Flooring

Lay out the unopened boxes of laminate planks in the room.

Do you install trim before flooring. First hold the base molding against the wall after you cut it to length and look for gaps. Because of this you have to leave a small quarter inch gap around the outside edge. Is this standard practice or just an opinion. Nail the floor trim to the studs and then tack the braces to the trim with 1 in brads.

Most houses i have seen and designed we always put the trim on top of finish floor except for carpeting. You have to remove the trim in order to put flooring down. Then apply construction adhesive at the top and bottom. Lengths of scrap baseboard and put 45 degree angles on the ends.

No you don t want to trim wood flooring around the bottom of the door jambs really foolish. Baseboard installation baseboards are often installed before flooring since they must be finished in place with either stain or paint and this is much easier without worrying about staining the. The baseboards are then installed to cover the gap. If you see some cut a few braces from 4 to 6 in.

Then baseboard fits over the flooring. This will allow them to acclimate to the room s temperature and humidity. Floor covering or finish flooring is the surface that you see and walk on not the subfloor under the underlayment or underlayment between subfloor and finished layer. If you are installing the flooring below grade or in a room like a basement with high humidity or moisture lay down a vapor barrier before you install the flooring.

Now i usually tile bathroom floors but i have tiled a few rooms that have had a entry way into another room without a door and it s impossible to match the new base with the old on style alone but with the 1 4 height difference also. Both the flooring contractor and trim contractor said to install trim first. Also laminate is very difficult to cut with a saw without at least minor chipping. But if you put new base after the tile is set it makes the entire floor to ceiling look cleaner.

Also trim carpentry is a trade that installs the interior doors and the casing and base. You would never make it look right doing it that way. So unless you are going to buy a special cutter looks like a large paper cutter you are going to want to hide that cut edge. They should acclimate for at least 48 hours.

I know trim first is easier on the trim contractors they don t have to worry about scribing anything.