We had some other funky angles because of our bay window, which meant one side was cut at 18 degrees and the other side was cut at 31 degrees.

When my husband was replacing the baseboards in the boys’ bedrooms, he had figured out that the inside length of the cap is 3/4″ and it gives you a perfectly sized piece for corner caps. The cap and the baseboards on each side of it are cut at a 22.5 degree angle. The corners need a cap on them to allow everything to fit nicely. We have rounded corners in our house, which means there are some tricky cuts involved. I laid my new baseboards out on the floor in my garage and gave them a shiny new coat of paint using my HomeRight Finish Max Pro paint sprayer.įrom then on it was all about measuring and cutting the baseboards down to size. This is also why I didn’t use the hammer to pry the baseboards off. If you were to push the prying tool towards the wall, you’d end up with dents. One of the most important things to remember when prying is to not push the prying tool towards the wall, but pull away. Some nails were left behind, which I removed with the hammer. I would work in about 5′ sections and then pry the baseboards further from the wall until a large section came off. I used the hammer to tap the trim remover in and lightly pried the baseboards away from the wall. I then took my hammer and tapped the putty knife in between the baseboards and wall to allow a space for the trim remover to fit. To get started, I cut the caulking along the top of the baseboards with the razor knife. Yes, I know this is an automotive trim panel remover, but guess what? It can remove trim in the house too! 😉 I grabbed some tools that I thought would be helpful: A razor knife, a hammer, a putty knife, and a prying tool. When SERVPRO came to clean up the mess of our flooded house, there were a few dents in the walls where they had only removed baseboards (rather than all of the drywall). I was a bit gun-shy about removing the baseboards because I was afraid of damaging the walls. The morning he got home, we went to the house to do some more remodeling and what I heard when I opened the door was the sound of a raging waterfall, half of the house flooded, and a bubble in the newly painted wall the size of a basketball. We had finished installing the chair railing and then the next day my husband started his 48 hour shift at the fire station. You see, we put chair rails in their bedrooms and when my husband was nailing the chair railing in, our stud finder marked the stud, but the water main to the house was right next to it. I wish I could find the pictures of the gigantic 3’x4′ hole cut in the wall of my youngest’s room, followed by the 12″ of drywall they cut out of his and his older brother’s room, but you’ll just have to settle for the cuteness of my baby (then 2) painting his bedroom–pre flood.

Nothing like a little procrastination, right? The only reason we had bought new baseboards to begin with is because we had accidentally flooded half of our house while we were remodeling.

On top of that, I also decided that it would be the perfect time to replace the old 2″ baseboards with the nice 3″ baseboards we had bought when we first bought and remodeled our house almost 4 years ago. Recently, I decided it was time to repaint our master bedroom.

Base boards