Hi Scott, One thing you can do so you don't have to rip out the already stuck on baseboards is what I did when I had to refinish my basement after a flood.
As I did not have a talking tape measure or anything tactile to measure with, I had to approximate the measurements with my tape measure and hope I did a bang up job. As I managed to accomplish most of it fairly well, there were some spots that were not up to desirable standards. What I resolved to do was to fix it as I had used industrial glue to attached them to the wall as there was only plaster on the walls so taking them off was not ann option for me. Anyway, what I did was to get some wood filler that was approximately the same colour as the trim I used. As this did not matter, I used an approximate colour as we were going to paint over the damn thing anyway. What we did was over fill the area with the wood filler and used an extra wide putty knife to smooth it out to look like the rest of the baseboard. This was necessary as we used a decorative baseboard, but none too decorative that we could not fix it. Basically how we managed this was to over fill the crack or gap, as I said above, then applied the putty knife so it spanned the gap across the two parts of the baseboard. I set the putty knife at the bottom and slowly and methodically, ran the putty knife up the gap, making sure that the putty knife kept constant contact with the finished baseboard to copy the finishing. I did this two or three times, first up the baseboard to catch any extra I might have used, then down the baseboard to fine tune it. Like I said, I did this two or three times to make sure that the gap looked as much like the original as possible. Once I was satisfied, or rather, the wife was satisfied it looked as much like the rest of the baseboard as I was going to get it, I let it sit and dry overnight. Once it was dry, I sanded it to perfection with a find grit sand paper. If I found there was any gaps still left in the fix, I went over it again with some more wood filler and repeated the process until it looked semi decent. This was a cheap fix, but it worked none the less. I also used the wood filler on the counter sunk nail heads of the finishing nails I used to stick on on some of the baseboards that were attached to wooden parts of the walls. Anyway, all told, it came out nicer than I could have imagined it. Hope this gives you some ideas. Victor Gouveia [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
