How To Install Quarter Round Laminate Flooring

This type of molding is similar to shoe molding but shorter and wider.

How to install quarter round laminate flooring.

How to install laminate flooring. Quarter rounds need to be cut and. Learning how to install laminate flooring doesn t have to be complicated. Homeowners install quarter round molding at the base of a wall to hide gaps and imperfections between the wall and a laminate floor or between the baseboard molding and a laminate floor.

This prevents the flooring from being able to move freely as a floating floor is intended to do. Install baseboards and molding remove the spacers around the border and install baseboards and quarter round molding covering the plastic moisture barrier on the wall and the gap between the wall and the flooring. Quarter round molding typically offers some flexibility allowing the molding to sit on the floor even if the floor is not level. The purpose of installing the quarter round is to cover the expansion gap around the walls.

It s an easy installation that costs little and gives your floors a precise polished look. Quarter round should match the floor. I will try to explain it in simple terms so you can install your own quarter round. Once the laminate has been installed remove the spacers and install a matching threshold baseboard and quarter round moulding to the walls using finishing nails.

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. Just a quick video to show you how you hide the seems of the laminate flooring that meets up to the base board. How to install quarter round. It can be confusing trying to cut all the angles you may encounter.

Fastening quarter round into the base board and the floating floor another mistake is nailing or gluing the quarter round onto the floating 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.