The main purpose of baseboards is to hide the gap between the floor covering and the wall but over the years they can become so much.
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The installation of laminate flooring is relatively straightforward and anyone with some spare time and general carpentry knowledge and tools can put a laminate floor down.
Angle nailing is a bitch with the stupid piping and heat fins in the way.
In a related idea i was able to deal with the heat pipe by using a door jamb drill bit to cut a hole big enough to fit around it then cut to the circle on each side of circumference so it slides into the notch with spacing.
Baseboard heaters can present a problem during a laminate flooring installation if they occur along the wall running next to the last course.