How To Join Two Floor Moldings

Where one floor meets another type of flooring you will have to install some sort of transition piece.

How to join two floor moldings.

When the wall is longer than the available baseboard molding you will need to splice two shorter baseboards together to stretch from end to end. This will give you a reference point to make it easier to complete the coped joint. In addition if your wall is longer than the molding available you will need to join shorter pieces together. T molding transition strips have two lips to cover the edges of both surfaces when flooring products differ no more than about 3 8 inch in height.

If you find a profile that you like that isn t tall enough install the molding to the same height as the older baseboard molding. Where a side casing meets a window stool plinth blocks or the floor. Transition from carpet to another material. Transition strips do not bottom out.

Hold a scrap piece of baseboard molding perpendicular to the face down board and trace the profile of the baseboard with a pencil. Or where a thinner piece of molding meets a thicker piece. A strip of t molding. Here are a few options when you have to combine two uneven floors.

To make a scarf joint bevel cut the molding ends to 45 degrees smear them with a little carpenter s glue then secure the joint with 1 inch 4d finishing nails. A butt joint is used where two pieces of trim with a square profile come together such as at an inside corner. The strip is supported on both sides by the lips and held in place with nails. Cover the gap between the floor and the molding with quarter round molding.

Scarf joints are much less conspicuous and if the moldings should shrink and they almost always do a revealing gap won t appear as it would with a butt joint. Quarter round molding is typically about 3 4 in 1 9 cm wide. The leg of the t doesn t touch the floor. When you install laminate flooring in two adjacent rooms you re left with a threshold joint where the two installations meet.

Next lay the other baseboard molding that will join the one already in place face down on the floor. Floor transitions are necessary when installing a new floor in your house. Thinner pieces stick out from the wall less. How to connect two rooms of laminate flooring.

For other situations different pieces are used in conjunction with the t molding. Measure the existing baseboard molding in your home and use the measurements to buy the new molding. The best way to do this is with a scarf joint a method of joinery in which the boards meet at ends cut at opposing angles rather than with square cut ends.