Tile Floor Shoe Molding

You should fasten shoe molding using an 18 gauge finish nailer with 1 inch nails.

Tile floor shoe molding. Carefully cut floor finishes can be caulked into place for a much cleaner look. Rip a series of luan plywood strips the length of the door threshold enough to build the floor under the threshold up to tile level or close. They can easily be bent into place during installation. Don t worry about buying perfectly straight pieces.

16 gauge nails are likely to split shoe molding and will be more easily visible on the small surface. Some of our customers prefer the look of shoe molding as it complements tall baseboards. But if you put new base after the tile is set it makes the entire floor to ceiling look cleaner. Shoe and quarter round moldings are quite flexible intended to bend and conform to the floor profile.

The undulations in the floor s surface will cause gaps to appear between the baseboard and the flooring material. I have no shoe molding in my house. Get regular wood shoe molding preferably pre primed. Then shim the threshold.

Shoe molding should be tacked to the baseboard not the floor which inhibits floor expansion beneath the shoe molding. As long as the shoe mold matches the baseboards not the flooring it looks more finished. Glue them in place under the threshold. Now i usually tile bathroom floors but i have tiled a few rooms that have had a entry way into another room without a door and it s impossible to match the new base with the old on style alone but with the 1 4 height difference also.

Using shoe mold allows you to caulk between the tile and the baseboard without the caulking showing and covers up any slight imperfections and unevenness between the flooring and the boaseboards. I found that many places in the world i ve traveled rely on good workmanship rather than covering ragged edges with. Use regular twist drills for this but get a bunch of them so you can waste them. Install them one at a time.

Nail it to the wall by predrilling through the grout joints in the wall tile. Shoe molding conforms to the floor s surface and hides those gaps. Shoe molding is needed in situations when the subfloor slab is uneven. This installation features both inside and outside miters to join pieces of moldings at the corners.

Drill downwards at a 45 degree angle.