Baseboards & Trim ยท Murrieta
Builder trim is a three-inch baseboard, no window casing and a hollow-core door. Upgrading all three is a modest job that changes how finished every room feels.
The single most common trim request in Murrieta is replacing the builder's three-inch baseboard with something taller, usually five to seven inches, at the same time as new flooring goes in. The timing is not an accident: new baseboard covers the expansion gap a floating floor needs and hides the edge cleanly. We cope the inside corners rather than mitring them so the joints stay tight when the house moves through a summer, fill the nail holes, caulk the top edge and paint.
Most tract homes here have drywall-wrapped windows with no casing at all. Adding a proper casing and a sill turns a bare opening into a finished window and is one of the cheaper upgrades per room. Door casings are replaced to match the new baseboards so the profiles agree throughout the house.
Crown in the main living areas and master bedroom is a popular finish in this valley's larger two-storey homes. Getting it right means dealing with the reality that ceilings are not perfectly level and corners are not perfectly square; we scribe and cope each piece rather than trusting the saw angle. It is caulked, filled and painted as part of the job.
Replacing hollow-core builder doors with solid-core or panelled doors is a quieter house and a heavier, better feeling one. We hang the new doors in the existing frames where the frames are sound, fit new hinges and hardware, and adjust the strikes so every door latches cleanly. Closet doors, barn doors and pocket door repairs are all part of the same work.
Tell us about the project and we will come out, measure, and put a written number in your hands.
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Questions
After the floor is down, always. The baseboard sits on top of the new floor and covers the expansion gap. If we are doing both, the sequencing is built into the schedule.
In a Murrieta tract home with eight or nine-foot ceilings, five to five-and-a-half inches looks proportional. Rooms with taller ceilings can go to seven. We bring samples so you can see it against the wall.
Yes. New trim is primed, installed, filled, caulked and painted. Installed-but-unpainted trim is not a finished job.
In most cases, yes. If the frames are square and solid, new slabs are hung in them, which saves the cost and mess of replacing the whole pre-hung unit.
Free estimates for baseboards, casing, crown and doors. We bring profile samples so you can choose against your own walls.
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