Had a friends daughter that needed some cabinets hung so I went over and took care of that for her. I you notice that is a floating bamboo floor 3/8" thick, I set the cabinets on 1/2" subfloor so the bamboo floor would have room to move with no weight on it. By doing it this way the floor goes under the cabinets and makes a clean transition without the need for shoe mold. I dislike shoe mold, to me it looks like a repair or a whoops was fixed but thats just me.
ironpony .. Stop sweating and teach some of these 25 year old contractors, how to do it Right!! PLEASE..
I have almost given up on 25 year olds, I am trying to teach the 10 and 12 year olds in the neighborhood at least they actually listened and try.
Woodwidow shoe molding is the brown piece of wood nailed to the white molding in that picture. Floating floors are sometimes added to old homes and shoe molding is installed to cover the seem between the old molding. It allows you to use the old molding without removing it. In that picture they should have use white shoe molding, it would look better. ironpony that looks great and thanks for the install ideas. I’ll be doing a similar job at our house next year.
Jack Straw .. the floating floors need to float expand and contract with the weather. In my opinion it would look better if you just removed the molding.. Put in floor and reinstalled the white molding and left the shoe molding out of it. But to be clear, I am a hack that listened to a couple Craftsman.. ironpony IS a craftsman.
Thanks for the answer Jack Straw I agree that it should have been white molding then it would have disappeared into the wall.
Totally agree. I always trim door jambs and casings, and remove and reinstall baseboards so that shoe molding isn't needed.
God that's awful, worst is cheap quarter round. And this PVC crap for a toe kick under cabinets: I've pulled a lot of base molding off carefully if it was old wood worth saving and putting back just because I despise those moldings, even with linoleum.
