How To Join Two Floor Moldings

Transition strips do not bottom out.

How to join two floor moldings.

Measure the existing baseboard molding in your home and use the measurements to buy the new molding. 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. This will help you cover the gap and make it a smoother transition from one floor to the next.

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. Where a side casing meets a window stool plinth blocks or the floor. When you install laminate flooring in two adjacent rooms you re left with a threshold joint where the two installations meet. Or where a thinner piece of molding meets a thicker piece.

Floor transitions are necessary when installing a new floor in your house. 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. 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. Cover the gap between the floor and the molding with quarter round molding.

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. Quarter round molding is typically about 3 4 in 1 9 cm wide. Here are a few options when you have to combine two uneven floors. Where one floor meets another type of flooring you will have to install some sort of transition piece.

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. Transition from carpet to another material. 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. The leg of the t doesn t touch the floor.

How to connect two rooms of laminate flooring. This will give you a reference point to make it easier to complete the coped joint. Hold a scrap piece of baseboard molding perpendicular to the face down board and trace the profile of the baseboard with a pencil. Next lay the other baseboard molding that will join the one already in place face down on the floor.

For other situations different pieces are used in conjunction with the t molding. A strip of t molding. A typical 4 in 1 transition includes a metal channel for mounting the system with a t molding which fits into the channel and is used alone if you are joining floors that are the same height.