How To Take Off Floor Trim

Quarter round trim is usually nailed into the floor unless the floor is tile.

How to take off floor trim.

Place a wood wedge scrap block or other kind of protective material against the wall where the. How to remove hardwood flooring the easy way. Score the seam between the trim and the wall with a. Gently pry the trim away in stages proceeding along the wall.

Use a utility knife if necessary to carefully slice through any paint preventing the putty knife from getting between the two. Start at one end of. Gently work a 6 inch metal putty knife behind the baseboard and wiggle the tool while pulling mostly forward to loosen the pins or finishing nails holding the trim on the wall. Trim is usually caulked or painted to the wall.

Continue this motion across the trim until is has loosened all the way across its length. Start at an end. If the trim is nailed into the floor place the putty knife underneath the trim and continue pulling upward in the same. We had 3 different types of flooring on the main level of our home so we want to replace all of this mismatche.

Continue along the wall in 12 inch increments increasing the gap as you move. Remove the quarter round moulding from the room s perimeter. Begin prying from either end of. Baseboards often get damaged during removal.

Even if you do not intend to reuse the trim it is still easier to pull it off in entire lengths rather than in small broken pieces. Beginning at a door entry or outside corner slip the flat edge of a putty knife between the quarter round and baseboard.