If you were going to install wanescote in a old room with base bord would you remove the base bord, or put it on top with a small peice of molding on the bottom edge?
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The actual spelling is wainscot. In traditional applications, wainscoting is applied to the wall and then the base. For that to happen in your room, the existing base would have to be removed, and re-installed after the new wainscoting. That would be a lot of trouble. It would depend if you want to go through the firedrill. It's your room and you can do whatever you please. There are no "design police" that will show up to arrest you if you veer off with your own design.
If you have enough step on top of the base to accommodate the thickness of the applied panel, you might decide not to add a moulding. If you do add a moulding, it may look very good if you keep it unobtrusive and not overwhelm the base. Some base mouldings are designed with a decorative top edge. You could add a moulding to the top edge as a "cap" moulding.
Here is one site that shows different base mouldings and you can see how the top edge is done.
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I'm assuming you're talking about a baseboard heater and not a baseboard trim piece. If you're talking about trim- remove it carefully and put it up over the WC.
If you're talking a heater- you may not necessarily have to remove the heater to get it in there. I have never put up WC- but I just recently removed the cover of a heater, and it was not fun. It looks like it would be much easier than it is. However, you can probably pry the top of the heater out away from the wall just a little, and slide the WC below the level of site. Not sure of your specific instance, and since I've never done it I'm operating in the world of theory (probably flawed theory), but that would be my first attempt.
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In a new installation you'd apply the wainscot first, but in an existing room you can do it either way -- but you need to realize that you won't get quite the same look. If the base is the usual 3/4" or so thick, the visible top edge will be reduced by the wainscot's thickness (obviously); the taller the base, the weaker its proportions will be. This will bother some people more than others, and against this visual objection you have to weigh how much time and trouble will be required to remove the existing base and reinstall it just to "do it right."
If you scribe carefully the bottom edge of the wainscot to the top of the base, you might not need a molding at all (especially with a painted finish). If the wainscot is thin enough, you might have room for a small cove molding. Or you might consider a cap that is wider that the base's top.
In short, there's no right or wrong answer. We've certainly detailed it all these ways and more, over the years ...LarryComment
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I've doen it both ways. I liked it better when the baseboard was removed.David
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Wiainscotting
Russ,
I installed 4x8 panel wainscotting in my bathroom 1.5 years after we remodeled it. I put the 1/2" wc panel on top of the 3/4" base board. The base board had a 1/4 round over as well. On the top of my wc I but in a 2.75" flat stock that i rabbitted out to cover up any unevenness. I cut the thickness of the 2.75" piece down from 3/4" to somwhere around 5/8. On top of that piece i put a 2.5" deep chair rail with a roman ogee (if i remember the name correctly) pattern routed out. I tried to match the chair rail with the molding already on my windows. The bathroom looks real nice even but was tricky to cut becuase you have less room for error when yo uput it on top of the base board. I didn't want to pull the base board off and put the WC behind it. I ended up with a nice soft but clean look. Putting the base board on top of the wc will give you a nice strong appearance. Depends on how much work you want to do i guess and you style preference.
good luck
chadiComment
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I prefer doing the base after gives a much nicer look. Heres a few rooms I did.
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