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  "name": "Should baseboards be installed before or after new flooring?",
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      "name": "Should baseboards be installed before or after new flooring?",
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        "text": "Baseboards should be installed after your new flooring is completely laid. Whether you are putting down hardwood, laminate, vinyl plank, or tile, the flooring needs to sit beneath or meet the bottom edge of the trim. Installing the baseboards second hides the necessary expansion gaps left around the edges of floating floors or cuts along tile. If you install baseboards first, you will either have to pull them back off or add shoe molding or quarter round along the bottom edge to conceal the gaps, which adds extra material and labor.",
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        "description": "Baseboards are installed after the flooring is finished. This neatly covers the required expansion gaps along the perimeter without needing extra shoe molding."
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  "description": "Baseboards are installed after the flooring is finished. This neatly covers the required expansion gaps along the perimeter without needing extra shoe molding."
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