Putting new tile in entryway, need some advice.

[zhaddock]

I'll try to get some pics up later but here's the skinny. I'm ripping up some old nasty tile in our entryway on the house. The previous owner didn't remove the trim. They just tiled up to it and then grouted between the tile and the trim. I plan on pulling the trim, tiling to the wall and then replacing the trim on top. The one issue I'm going to have is that there is one piece of trim that will transition from tile to carpet. If it gets raised by the tile it will no longer look right over the carpet and will not match the other trim at the corner.

Any ideas on how I should handle this?


Thanks!!!!
Z

 

[My Old Tools]

You can rip the bottom off of all the trim that is on the tile to make it match at the top.

 

[Piper27]

Don't know if this would give you the look you want, but when I did my entryway I left the baseboard molding on and tiled up close to it. I then put quarter round molding on to cover the gap and finish it off. Looks good to me.

 

[strutaeng]

I hate these hack jobs. Removing and resetting baseboards would have taken a mere extra half hour. At my old house they the P.O. did this to a quarter round that I wound up taking out in pieces.

I don't have any suggestions other than riping, but there is video on removing the base. This guy has many other videos you might find interesting:

 

[zhaddock]

You can rip the bottom off of all the trim that is on the tile to make it match at the top.

Yeah, I thought about ripping it. Was hoping there would be another way.

 

[Tim The Tool Man]

All baseboard is supposed to be placed 3/8th of an inch above the unfinished floor. Assuming that was not done originally, place a thin vertical block at the transition point. It is a common practice done all the time. Decorative transition blocks can be bought at Homer or Lowes...