How To Install Quarter Round On Laminate Floor

Cut both pieces in opposite directions.

How to install quarter round on laminate floor.

Baseboard molding installations are very often finished off with an additional thin piece of molding called quarter round or shoe molding that covers the gap between the bottom of the baseboards and the floor. 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. Cut quarter round pieces at a 45 angle to form joints. Installing the flooring too tight to the transition molding floating floors require an expansion gap around all fixed objects.

When you join the pieces together you will get a square 90 angle that leaves minimal gaps on the wall. Meg the best floor layers take the baseboard off and put the wood or laminate closer to the wall not all the way though as there has to be space for it to expand and contract and then they put the baseboard back on thus the baseboard itself covers the raw edge of the flooring and there s no need for quarter round. Strike the nail with a hammer until the nail sits just above the surface of the quarter round molding. The baseboard should be enough if the installers are careful about how they install the wood floor.

Just a quick video to show you how you hide the seems of the laminate flooring that meets up to the base board. Make 45 cuts on the ends of 2 different molding pieces. Fixed objects include walls pipes trim and transitions. Use this type of cut to form corner joints wherever walls meet.

Place a nail set on top of the finishing nail and hit the nail set with the hammer to drive the finishing nail just below the surface of the quarter round molding. Installing the quarter round the easiest method for installing quarterly round molding is to use a nail gun which requires a compressor. If you are installing a lot of quarterly buying a nail gun and compressor is not too expensive. Lay out the unopened boxes of laminate planks in the room.

It s an easy installation that costs little and gives your floors a precise polished look. I have one wood floor installer who insists on using quarter round plus the baseboard for my floor installation whereas my contractor and another floor installer say it s not necessary. Quarter round should always be fastened into the base boards and base boards should be fastened to the wall studs or adhered to the drywall. Is the first installer just trying to make more money off of me.