Shoe Molding Tile Floor

Tool to cut baseboard and shoe molding.

Shoe molding tile floor.

Paired with baseboard and stained or painted to match your trim shoe molding also known as base shoe is a small thin strip of molding that gives your room a finished look. All porcelain tile flooring. Prefinished iron hill maple hardwood 1 2 in thick x. You should fasten shoe molding using an 18 gauge finish nailer with 1 inch nails.

It s an easy installation that costs little and gives your floors a precise polished look. Using shoe mold allows you to caulk between the tile and the baseboard without the caulking showing and covers up any slight imperfections and unevenness between the flooring and the boaseboards. Shoe molding adds a. As long as the shoe mold matches the baseboards not the flooring it looks more finished.

Wood look tile flooring. 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. 16 gauge nails are likely to split shoe molding and will be more easily visible on the small surface. Shoe molding should be tacked to the baseboard not the floor which inhibits floor expansion beneath the shoe molding.

Quick click tile flooring. Prefinished carriage house white ash hardwood 1 2 in thick x 75 in wide x 78 in length shoe molding. Using shoe molding gives the floor installer more latitude in their end cuts and also allows the trim carpenter to hide un level floors.