Should I Do Floor Or Trim First

Walls are put up first then the floor covering comes later.

Should i do floor or trim first. Home owners generally prefer the look of doing the tile first and then installing the baseboard trim. Now install the new flooring but keep it about a inch from the first filler strip. With its smooth sharp edges trim is easier to apply tape to than walls especially when the walls are textured. Also the lack of baseboards and other floor trim means you can paint all the way down without any masking.

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. 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. Builders prefer to do the baseboards first and then bring the tile right up to the tile. Opt for floor installation first because it s often a messy process.

Most do it yourselfers like to tape off the areas where they don t want to get paint. Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall. 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.

When you run a floor sander around a room there is the possibility of scuffing up newly. 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. In new construction homes where no flooring has been laid yet this is the way it works. 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.