Should I Do Floor Or Trim First

With its smooth sharp edges trim is easier to apply tape to than walls especially when the walls are textured.

Should i do floor or trim first.

Much like the infamous chicken or the egg debate pondering the question of whether to paint walls or trim first can lead you to think in circles. When to paint the trim first when you re taping. There is a possibility that the walls or trim may be damaged by the installation of the flooring. This piece should be at least 2 inches wide and about inch thicker than the total thickness of the flooring including any vapor barrier or cushion.

When you run a floor sander around a room there is the possibility of scuffing up newly. Home owners generally prefer the look of doing the tile first and then installing the baseboard trim. Most do it yourselfers like to tape off the areas where they don t want to get paint. If it is installed with the tile up to the baseboard trim then you should leave about a 1 8 gap that you should fill will caulking.

Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall. If you paint first and then do floors there is a good chance that a lot of dirt dust sawdust or tile stone dust will end up on your freshly painted walls and trim. Builders prefer to do the baseboards first and then bring the tile right up to the tile. Walls are put up first then the floor covering comes later.

A gutted room eliminates much of the dirt and grime associated with removing old carpet tile or wood flooring. Now install the new flooring but keep it about a inch from the first filler strip. If you paint the trim first you run the risk. In new construction homes where no flooring has been laid yet this is the way it works.