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From: Steve on 16 Jan 2008 09:42
My client wants to put carpet down over his hardwood floors. (Yeah, I
know, he's an idiot.) As a first step, he wants the quarter-round removed
from the baseboard.

The quarter-round is glued on, not nailed. Arrrgh!

A good bit of it just popped off, since glue doesn't stick well to paint.
Where he hit bare wood with the glue, though, a big chunk of the baseboard
is coming off with the quarter-round. I stopped when the second chuck came
off, and I have to give him a recommendation.

Any suggestions how to proceed? I know the carpet will hide a good bit of
the damage, but I want to give him a good job. I guess I can fill it with
putty, but the carpet guys are coming next week, and I don't have forever.

--
Steve B.
New Life Home Improvement
From: efgh on 16 Jan 2008 09:55

"Steve" <respond(a)online.newsgroup> wrote in message
news:Xns9A27589A683AC184365720018436572(a)66.250.146.128...
> My client wants to put carpet down over his hardwood floors. (Yeah, I
> know, he's an idiot.) As a first step, he wants the quarter-round removed
> from the baseboard.
>
> The quarter-round is glued on, not nailed. Arrrgh!
>
> A good bit of it just popped off, since glue doesn't stick well to paint.
> Where he hit bare wood with the glue, though, a big chunk of the baseboard
> is coming off with the quarter-round. I stopped when the second chuck came
> off, and I have to give him a recommendation.
>
> Any suggestions how to proceed? I know the carpet will hide a good bit of
> the damage, but I want to give him a good job. I guess I can fill it with
> putty, but the carpet guys are coming next week, and I don't have forever.
>
> --
> Steve B.
> New Life Home Improvement

Is baseboard that expensive to install?


From: Dave in Houston on 16 Jan 2008 10:20

"Steve" <respond(a)online.newsgroup> wrote in message
news:Xns9A27589A683AC184365720018436572(a)66.250.146.128...
> My client wants to put carpet down over his hardwood floors. (Yeah, I
> know, he's an idiot.) As a first step, he wants the quarter-round removed
> from the baseboard.
>
> The quarter-round is glued on, not nailed. Arrrgh!
>
> A good bit of it just popped off, since glue doesn't stick well to paint.
> Where he hit bare wood with the glue, though, a big chunk of the baseboard
> is coming off with the quarter-round. I stopped when the second chuck came
> off, and I have to give him a recommendation.
>
> Any suggestions how to proceed? I know the carpet will hide a good bit of
> the damage, but I want to give him a good job. I guess I can fill it with
> putty, but the carpet guys are coming next week, and I don't have forever.

I would attack it with a stiff-bladed putty knife every six inches or so
and if that proved too damaging might, in the end, replace base board where
necessary. Appears that either outcome is going to require a little
sanding, primer and paint.

--
Dave in Houston


From: B A R R Y on 16 Jan 2008 10:29
Steve wrote:
> >
> Any suggestions how to proceed? I know the carpet will hide a good bit of
> the damage, but I want to give him a good job.

A flush cut hand saw or Fein Multimaster?
From: Steve on 16 Jan 2008 10:56
N Hurst <nhurst(a)gmail.com> wrote on 16 Jan 2008 in group
alt.home.repair:

> On Jan 16, 9:42 am, Steve <resp...(a)online.newsgroup> wrote:
>> My client wants to put carpet down over his hardwood floors. (Yeah,
>> I know, he's an idiot.) As a first step, he wants the quarter-round
>> removed from the baseboard.
>>
>> The quarter-round is glued on, not nailed. Arrrgh!
>>
>> A good bit of it just popped off, since glue doesn't stick well to
>> paint. Where he hit bare wood with the glue, though, a big chunk of
>> the baseboard is coming off with the quarter-round. I stopped when
>> the second chuck came off, and I have to give him a recommendation.
>>
>> Any suggestions how to proceed? I know the carpet will hide a good
>> bit of the damage, but I want to give him a good job. I guess I can
>> fill it with putty, but the carpet guys are coming next week, and I
>> don't have forever.
>
> I'd suggest locating the spots where it's glued wood to wood and
> getting a chisel or a suitably thin pry bar and striking downward on
> it, so that if it does break a bit, it'll be less likely to tear
> along the grain.

That's what I was doing when the damage occurred. Pieces of the
baseboard are coming off in chunks.

In another message EFGH suggested replacing the baseboard, and that will
work, but it's a special-order profile, so I might do that after the
carpet guys finish screwing up the paint.

I had a thought that I might put new quarter-round back after the carpet
is installed, but I don't like that look. Obviously the client doesn't
either, or he wouldn't have asked me to remove it.

--
Steve B.
New Life Home Improvement
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