Do You Install Trim Before Flooring

Also trim carpentry is a trade that installs the interior doors and the casing and base.

Do you install trim before flooring.

Lay out the unopened boxes of laminate planks in the room. If you see some cut a few braces from 4 to 6 in. You want them in their to do all of that after the floors are in. That way you don t end up with another floor installed wrong.

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. Because of this you have to leave a small quarter inch gap around the outside edge. But if you put new base after the tile is set it makes the entire floor to ceiling look cleaner. Nail the floor trim to the studs and then tack the braces to the trim with 1 in brads.

Also laminate is very difficult to cut with a saw without at least minor chipping. Lengths of scrap baseboard and put 45 degree angles on the ends. You have to remove the trim in order to put flooring down. I know trim first is easier on the trim contractors they don t have to worry about scribing anything.

Most houses i have seen and designed we always put the trim on top of finish floor except for carpeting. They should acclimate for at least 48 hours. Then baseboard fits over the flooring. Then apply construction adhesive at the top and bottom.

This will allow them to acclimate to the room s temperature and humidity. Is this standard practice or just an opinion. 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. No you don t want to trim wood flooring around the bottom of the door jambs really foolish.

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. 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. You would never make it look right doing it that way. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.

Both the flooring contractor and trim contractor said to install trim first.