Baseboard question

[Truxx1956]

Hey guys, what do you call that stuff that is like baseboard but is made of rubber. It's what you see in hospitals and commercial buildings and such. It kind of looks like angle iron, but is rubber. If you can understand that? Anyway I'm putting OSB on my walls and dont want them to rot when I mop my floor. Also where do you get it?

Thanks dudes

 

[hawkeye2]

Lowes and Home depot have it in the flooring section.

Space your OSB ~1/2" from the concrete so it doesn't absorb moisture.

 

[nadogail]

Rubber Cove Base, the hotel I once worked for bought it from a commercial flooring supply house. Flooring installers use a very large caulking gun, with a tip that squirts 4 or 5 streams to make it go up quick.

 

[ahaidet]

Floor molding/wall molding is what I think they call it at lowes. They have all kinds of different colors and types you can get both vinyl and rubber. They sell the caulking gun tips and adhesive. Its not too expensive, right around a dollar a foot if I remember right. They make a kind that does not require adhesive too. I was considering using this but I think I am going to get corrugated metal all the way up to 4 feet.

 

[Truxx1956]

Thanks guys, I knew yall would know.

 

[Stephenw]

Here is a writeup that I did...

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20868

 

[Truxx1956]

Dude!! That looks GREAT!!!

 

[tolken4]

If anyone wants a cove base that goes under a finish like epoxy, this is the best stuff I found out there. PRICEY, but holy **** I would love to have it... It is flexible and will form basically a bathtub like effect around your garage. Epoxy right over the stuff too!!!!

http://www.speedcove.com/

Did a ton of research a year back and this guy's stuff was premo. Not even sure he will sell to individuals though.

 

[CarWashGuy]

I don't know how an average person would find this, but I was doing a demo in a commercial building and acquired roughly 400 feet of the stuff that they were going to throw out.

Like I said, I don't know how someone would find something like that without doing the demo themselves but it may be worth looking into.

 

[zvezdah1]

After installing some two weeks ago in my garage a tip that really helps put it down. (I had put it on brick), get one of those small cheap plastic 4" paint rollers. When you put the baseboard in place use the roller to get good contact with the surface your bonding to, helps smooth the whole install out.
Chris

 

[Stephenw]

After installing some two weeks ago in my garage a tip that really helps put it down. (I had put it on brick), get one of those small cheap plastic 4" paint rollers. When you put the baseboard in place use the roller to get good contact with the surface your bonding to, helps smooth the whole install out.
Chris

A laminate roller is the proper tool.