Vinyl Baseboard

[cycloneaero]

Anyone have any experience with the typical vinyl baseboard you can get at Home Depot or similar places? How easy is it to install? Is it a good choice for a garage? My garage is already dry walled, floor is epoxied, I would like to add the baseboard to protect the bottom of the drywall and help prevent critter intrusions in the gap between the drywall and floor. Also would it be wise to use great stuff expanding foam to seal this gap between drywall and floor before I add the baseboard, just as extra critter intrusion protection?

 

[egdede]

Spray-foaming probably OK absent some other problem that would benefit from air to dry things out (leak or bad construction technique letting moisture in).. the baseboard is EZ. Either the pre-adhesive roll or the strips. I hold it against the wall and draw a faint pencil line at the exact height because you can stretch it out and go a little ****-eyed while installing it.

 

[Marc Voorhees]

If you go spray foam, I think they make a critter resistant version! Might as well get the best!

 

[Garage Flooring]

Anyone have any experience with the typical vinyl baseboard you can get at Home Depot or similar places? How easy is it to install? Is it a good choice for a garage? My garage is already dry walled, floor is epoxied, I would like to add the baseboard to protect the bottom of the drywall and help prevent critter intrusions in the gap between the drywall and floor. Also would it be wise to use great stuff expanding foam to seal this gap between drywall and floor before I add the baseboard, just as extra critter intrusion protection?

We did vinyl base at the showroom. For the house we got 5/4 trim siding and it is MUCH nicer and better looking

 

[PoorUB]

If it was me I would use 1x4 PVC trim boards. No paint necessary and water resistant. Mount it with trim screws and caulk over the holes. Also you can caulk any gaps between the trim and the floor and also to the wall.

 

[frankd]

I used exterior PVC trim board from home depot (AZEK brand). That was about 2 years ago and I'm very happy with them. My garage drywall is painted white and these were a close enough match so no need to paint. They clean up really easily and look great.

 

[merkyworks]

Been wanting put PVC trim board around my garage as well. My drywall isn’t flush with concrete floor and sticks out around 1/4” leaving a large gap.

So general consensus is to finish nail/screw the trim board to wall 2x4 then use caulk/spray foam to fill gap (red area)?

edit: Don’t have trim board material yet, used a scrap 2x4 just for visual reference.

 

[PoorUB]

Use wide enough trim to reach from the floor up onto the drywall far enough to get it stable when screwed down, and just caulk the trim to the floor. If you really feel the need to support the trim at the concrete, rip some more PVC trim or some green treated into strips and lay it behind the PVC trim board. Or run in some flat head Tapcons into the concrete with the spacer strips.

I don't see how you can spray foam behind the trim. ****** mess to try foam it, then put up the trim, and no real way to foam it after.

 

[GlennSullivan]

I used vinyl baseboard on my little 1 car garage when I redid the floor 5 years ago and it still looks nice. I'm probably going to do the same on the big garage when I redo the floor next month.

 

[GlennSullivan]

Just finished doing the big garage, used 6" rubber cove base and purchased pre-formed 90 degree corners, which made it easier.
The finished product looks nice. Prior to this upgrade / repainting, the part of the garage that had sheetrock to the floor had white painted wood baseboard, the remainder of it had concrete block sticking up about 3" and the sheetrock sitting on top of that.

This picture from 10 or so years ago.


These are current pictures with the black 6" cove base all around.

 

[Rorin67]

Spray foam does sound like an unnecessary mess... I ditto the use of some type of 6" board (not 4"), as the board just looks a lot nicer than the rolls of adhesive vinyl. Here's mine with 6" baseboard.

 

[bullnerd]

Just finished doing the big garage, used 6" rubber cove base and purchased pre-formed 90 degree corners, which made it easier.
The finished product looks nice. Prior to this upgrade / repainting, the part of the garage that had sheetrock to the floor had white painted wood baseboard, the remainder of it had concrete block sticking up about 3" and the sheetrock sitting on top of that.

This picture from 10 or so years ago.


These are current pictures with the black 6" cove base all around.

Glenn, What floor coating did you use?

 

[Garage Flooring]

Looks great

 

[GlennSullivan]

Glenn, What floor coating did you use?

I used Epoxy primer, Epoxy main coat and tinted Polyurea top coat. I prolly should have done partial flake as it hides any flaws but it looks nice.

 

[duneslider]

I have used vinyl base in a number of facilities that see a bit of water and I would even silicone caulk the base to the floor to giveit more chance of keeping the water out. I have done thousands of feet of base that way with good results.

 

[mikedodge]

Use hard baseboard or thin planks of wood. In a garage application you can seal it better and paint it when it gets scuffed up.

 

[bullnerd]

I used Epoxy primer, Epoxy main coat and tinted Polyurea top coat. I prolly should have done partial flake as it hides any flaws but it looks nice.

Thanks Glenn, looks great!