How To Install Shoe Molding Around Door Trim

When you come to the corners cut your molding at a 45 degree angle so the 2 pieces fit together.

How to install shoe molding around door trim. The southern girl shows you the quick and easy way to cut and install shoe moulding part of the livable model home series. To complete the look add shoe molding. Place shoe molding across lower edge of baseboard. Project supplies used affil.

If you are beginning with a piece that will fit an outside corner such as around a post or wall arch you can position the piece of molding across the wall and mark the ends of the molding with a pencil at the wall intersection. This is done with molding called casing. Nail or glue the pieces in place. Before you install shoe molding sand down your moldings and finish them with a few coats of varnish to match your floor.

For example if you want to install standard inch high shoe molding the lower. A miter joint is where the ends of two pieces of molding are cut at equal angles 45 degrees for a square corner. If you are installing base shoe molding make sure that the long edge of the molding is upright against the wall. Some doorstop molding has a built in quarter round edge but if you have a square doorstop trim around the exterior side of the door frame or doorjamb with quarter round and your door will.

Add the base shoe. Use 3d or 4d nails every 12 inches along the bottom and 6d or 8d nails along the top of the moulding piece. Install the base shoe the same as the base cap coping inside corners and mitering outside corners. Either way to trim a door you need to bridge the gap between the door jamb the frame from on which the door is hinged and where the latch engages and the wall.

Use scarf joints to splice trim pieces on long walls. Cope inside joints and miter outside joints gluing as needed to secure. For a more traditional look add cap molding to the top of the baseboards. The only caveat to installing shoe molding is that the bottom of the baseboard must be flat to accept the molding.

Just a different idea. Predrill and nail the base shoe to the baseboard with 4d finishing nails. Nail the head moulding piece to the door jamb with trim nails. Imo you should end your quarter round shoe molding with an angle cut into the edge of the door trim.

To prevent splitting during this step avoid nailing 1 4 inch from the side edges and an inch from the edge of the moulding.