Base Molding help

[gillm]

Hi everyone,

I've just finished texturing and painting the garage walls and now Im thinking about what I want for molding at the floor. The hard part is the drywall doesnt go all the way to the floor nor does it line up with the concrete beneath it.

Ive attached a picture below. (apologies for the dirty floor - still working!) In the foreground you can see that the section below the drywall is 'sunken', and then about halfway down the wall the floor concrete 'pops out' and protrudes out beyond the drywall.

Any ideas on how to handle this change in the wall? I can envision putting something behind the molding where the concrete is sunken further back (wood maybe?) but Im not sure what to do with the section where the concrete sticks out.

Any thoughts or ideas are welcome! Thanks everyone.

Mark

 

[38 Dodge Coupe]

I can't tell from,your picture how far the missing concrete goes back but if it were mine I would build a form and mix concrete and pour it in the form to match the section that is still in place. Might be a tedious job but at least it would match up.

 

[cowboy73]

If the rest of the concrete is missing, I'd use an angle grinder with a diamond blade and cut off the part that sticks out. It doesn't appear to be that long of a run. That concrete doesn't look that sturdy it should come off of there relatively easy. Smooth up the bumps with a concrete chisel and drilling hammer.

 

[rieferman]

Maybe a built in entry bench to hide the bump out area and also provide a place to change into "shop shoes", hang your jacket above. Then regular base trim everywhere else.

 

[Cyberbear]

As already mentioned, I'd remove the unwanted concrete: by drilling a series of closely spaced holes and chisel out between them. When I used to do base board molding installation, I'd first patch the lower wall in order to provide a suitable surface for a 1 x pine board that was trimmed out with decorative top molding and a base shoe molding before being painted.

 

[Dkonrad]

I had a similar issue to deal with recently prior to epoxy coating my garage floor. The stemwall in this photo was rotten and crumbling under the drywall from the front of the photo back to the water softener. I cleaned out the loose material back to sound concrete, then built up the stem wall with this vinyl concrete patch in 1/2" to 1" lifts. I put down the epoxy coat after letting the patch cure for about two weeks, then put this pvc baseboard on top of the stem wall. It's not perfect, but it is a garage after all.

 

[gillm]

Thanks everyone for your ideas. I'm going to see what I can do to pull out the unwanted concrete - will provide an update when I'm done.

Happy Father's Day all!

 

[1949 caddyman]

You could use thin set & concrete backer board to bring out the recessed areas.

 

[kwschumm]

Fir it out and install wainscoting! You could use some sort of heavy pvc wainscoting which could preserve the walls from inevitable bumps and scrapes.