Tile Flooring With Shoe Molding

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Tile flooring with shoe molding. 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. I prefer shoe mold. Complete your project with coordinating tile in multiple sizes and shapes from the restore bright white collection for style. This glossy 1 2 in.

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Msi dove gray quarter round molding 5 8 in. Finish the molding to match the trim not the flooring. In most homes base shoe molding teams up with baseboards in rooms that have hard flooring surfaces such as tile stone sheet vinyl hardwood and laminate. The main use for shoe molding is to run along the intersection of the baseboard and floor.

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. Ceramic molding tile 6 59 6 59. Set your store to see local availability compare. It s an easy installation that costs little and gives your floors a precise polished look.

Shoe molding offers a fine finish to baseboards and covers the seam where it meets the floor. How to install wood baseboard molding on ceramic tile. Shoot 1 1 4 inch finish nails through the shoe and into the base trim. Once your flooring is down install shoe molding to cover the expansion gap between the flooring and the base trim.

Using shoe molding gives the floor installer more latitude in their end cuts and also allows the trim carpenter to hide un level floors. Be careful not to pin the flooring down in the process. Many bathrooms and pool house designs call for ceramic tile on the floor and walls or a tile wainscot. Tall baseboards were popular during the greek revival period in the early to mid 1800s but the idea.

The only real question was whether you chose 1 2 or 3 4 inch quarter round. For years quarter round molding an obvious name based on its end view was considered the base shoe. It s a true white ceramic wall tile in a traditional design and a new modern color. Free delivery with 45 order.

Since the shoe molding is such a small and flexible piece of trim it can meander up and down with the floor hiding. As long as the shoe mold matches the baseboards not the flooring it looks more finished.