After having to remove the trim in my house so that it could be stripped and refinished, I'd have to say an emphatic "no" to butting the floor up against the baseboards. Also, I think it would make wall refinishing more difficult should you ever choose to do so (masking instead of removing).
<font color="blue"> emphatic "no" to butting the floor up against the baseboards </font color>
Something I did not think or earlier, either, is that butting the 3/4" thick flooring up to the baseboard will make the baseboard appear to be 3/4" shorter. If you've only got 4" baseboard to begin with, it'll now be 3 1/4", and could destroy the proportion of it.
<font color="blue">I think for your case it may be necessary to trim the door casing to get the hardwood underneath the casing. Set a jamb saw on a piece of scrap flooring to guide how much casing to cut off. </font color>
hmm, I don't have a jamb saw (yet). I did a little research on the web just now. I think a hand saw fits the budget nicely. Any recommendations?
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Never heard of such, but there's a lot I don't know. I would think a backsaw, guided by a block of wood, would work very well for this. Backsaws are very handy for making controlled straight-line cuts in any situation. The regular hand saw tends to flex too much. Always good to have a backsaw in your tool chest, and another reason for acquiring more useful tools [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
<font color="blue">Never heard of such, but there's a lot I don't know. I would think a backsaw, guided by a block of wood, would work very well for this. Backsaws are very handy for making controlled straight-line cuts in any situation. The regular hand saw tends to flex too much. Always good to have a backsaw in your tool chest, and another reason for acquiring more useful tools </font color>
I've also seen it called an undercut saw. They have an offset handle to prevent knucklebusting. I don't know what a backsaw is (I assume it cuts on a backstroke vs. pull stroke)
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Dunno. I've just sort of been following the "accepted practice". Anything to set off the quoted text is all that's needed. [img]/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]
When I was installing the flooring in our home I found a pull saw at Lowes. It is flexible and worked great for doing the casings. I had always used a back saw or a small hand saw but this double sided saw made it a lot easier.
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