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Questions regarding installation, removal, painting of baseboard (otherwise known as skirting board, skirting, mopboard, floor molding, or base molding).

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2 thermostats daisy chained on 12g wire

I currently Have one Honeywell programmable thermostat, two wire hooked up to two baseboard heaters that are 240 V. The thermostat controlling these two baseboard heaters equals 3500 W max now what I ...
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Replacing two adjacent thermostats with one

My home has two adjacent thermostats, each one controls a single 1000W 240V baseboard heater. The heaters themselves are on opposite walls of the dining room. I’d like to replace both thermostats with ...
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What trim l should I use for to transition to quarter round?

I’m installing 5-1/2” baseboards throughout the house except at the base of cabinets/vanities, where I’m doing quarter round. When I come around this corner post (picture) from the living room, ...
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Cutting baseboard around lots of weird angles and floor transition

I live in a 115 year old house where none of the walls are straight and corners aren't 90 degrees. After putting in new flooring in my kitchen, I'm trying to reinstall baseboard, but there's a weird ...
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How can I clean cats' urine from my basement walls?

We have some cats in our basement that sometimes use the litter box but also like to pee all over the carpet down there, especially against the baseboards. As most people know, cleaning up pee ...
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Two-circuit thermostat tripping at different spots on the dial

I have a two circuit thermostat running two baseboard heaters. One circuit trips at a much earlier spot on the dial than the other, so the second heater never turns on. (One trips at roughly 8 o'clock,...
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How should I reconnect my 240v baseboard heater/thermostat wiring?

Everything was working fine, then I tried to install the Mysa baseboard heater v2 thermostats. When I realized that my wiring doesn't seem to support them, I put everything back together, and now of ...
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The two sides of my double pole thermostat aren't turning on at the same time [closed]

I have three baseboard heaters connected to a single double-pole thermostat. Two heaters are in series and connected to one 240v pole, the other is a single heater with its own 240v pole. The problem ...
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Is it OK to replace only one baseboard thermostat?

Trying to help my folks figure out what to do with heat in their house. Two story home in cold climate, 30 year old electric baseboard heaters. Can I replace only the living room thermostat - or do I ...
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Contractor baseboard install. Is this caulk line standard?

Contractor is set to paint my walls tomorrow, these caulk lines I’ve been told are really large and paint alone won’t resolve the gap between the baseboard and the wall. Contractor said this would be ...
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Cadet 4 wire thermostat to multiple heaters diagram help?

I am in need of some help hooking up a couple cadet four wire thermostats to multiple heaters in different rooms The thermostat on the back has two red wires and two black wires L1 L2 T1 T2 I believe ...
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Installing 4 baseboard heaters on a 20A double pole circuit

I am looking for some help with configurations on installing 4 baseboard heaters on a 20 amp double pole breaker with 12/2 wires. My current set up is all four baseboard heaters are hooked up to one ...
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Mysa thermostat(s) and 2 baseboard heaters

I'm having some problems hooking up my baseboard heaters (1500w) to Mysa thermostats. They are both on the same breaker. Currently they are operated by 2 thermostats that are on the same separating ...
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Baseboard heater not working despite measuring voltage

I have 240 volts reading on the wire, but heater won't work. I bypassed the thermostat, still won't work. I don't understand, if the power is there, what could be the issue?
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We painted the walls before installing new baseboard. What now?

We painted the walls and now we have to install baseboard. We’ve already painted the baseboard and haven’t installed it yet. We don’t know how to fix this problem. At what point do a caulk? Are we ...
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What is the proper way to drain my baseboard heaters?

I am in the process of adding a new baseboard heater and I am trying to figure out the proper way to drain my system. I believe I will first need to shut off the valve on the right in the picture ...
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Bathroom Vanity Without Baseboard Behind It

I'm trying to figure out what is in normal spectrum of work for baseboards underneath/behind a bathroom vanity. Our contractor used baseboards around the side of the vanity, but left it off the wall ...
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What is this pipe? I noticed water damage on my baseboard so I took it apart and found this but I’m not sure what needs to be done

So I’ve noticed water damage at the baseboards for a couple months now and decided to rip it apart and check behind. This is what I found but I’m not sure what I’m looking at and what needs to be done,...
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Baseboard heater - how to fill a hole?

I found a hole inside my baseboard heater, by the dial on the right hand side, right where the copper pipe meets the wall. Can I use regular Great Stuff to fill the gap, even if it’s touching the pipe?...
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Connection between Copper and Pex pipe broke in extreme cold

During extreme cold month of Feb in East coast, my baseboard radiator pipe broke, basically the connection between the copper and pex pipe broke and water leaked all over. I called a contractor and ...
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Can I retrofit new radiant electric heat using existing wiring from the old baseboard wiring?

I am removing two baseboard heaters in a 12x10 room,and have two 120v quiet warmth radiant heat mats laid. I’d like to know if I can use the old wiring if I change the old thermostat to a quietwarmth ...
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How do I remove the cover and caps on my old electric baseboard heaters?

I cannot find any directions or videos as to how to open up my baseboard heaters. A couple of my heaters are sagging off the wall as the screws holding them to the drywall have pulled away from the ...
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Baseboard corners seem wrong but contractor tells me this is normal [closed]

I have paid to have new flooring and baseboards installed in my home. I have 5 inch baseboards with flat edges. Rather than cutting the edges at angles as I’ve seen in all previous places I’ve lived, ...
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Tools for removing ceramic tile baseboard from concrete wall?

I want to replace my tile baseboard with a PVC one, from what I gathered I should be able to remove it with a chisel or a crowbar but I've tried with a chisel and all I can do is chip away the ceramic ...
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Too-short a return for baseboard

How would you deal with this situation as far as installing baseboard? Would you do a return?
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Oil boiler, remove baseboard from entire house but keep the water heater

I have a question about removing Hydronic Baseboard but keeping the boiler and water heater in place. Is this relatively straight forward? Shut off power Cut off the supply and return for the ...
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2 wires, both hot, for 240v baseboard thermostat

I am replacing the thermostats in 3 separate apartments and have run into the same situation for all of them. Each thermostat controls 2 baseboard heaters. The old thermostats had 2 wires coming out ...
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Base liner for stucco wall

I need ideas how to cover this currently really ugly joint between my stucco wall (currently applying stucco, can see new layer) and the immediate surrounding currently done with paver stones and sand,...
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Removing baseboard heater/heating loop and purging air

I need to rip a baseboard heater out: the cabinet, the copper piping, everything. There is no longer a need to heat that room (reasons: outside the scope of this question). This is fuel oil with an ...
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How do I remove and reinstall baseboards nailed on steel framing? [closed]

I need help with removing skirting boards. I have no problem pulling it off and no damage wall when pulling off from timber framing, but this is the first job that I came across that skirting board ...
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Two electric baseboard thermostats on one circuit. The first box has six wires, the second just four (ignoring the grounds)

At the first thermostat is the group of two wires the line, and the group of three wires the load? The second thermostat along the circuit only has four wires. I put in a new thermostat on the second ...
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Water or mold? Showing on baseboard in basement...what next?

We've noticed some water damage on a small 8 inch section of baseboard in our basement. See below: I was going to remove the baseboard to look behind. Any other suggestions? Worried it could be a ...
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How do I flush my forced hot water zones?

I have a weil-mclain boiler with four zones and an indirect hot water tank. How do I purge/flush each of the zones? I would guess the following: Turn off the gas and electricity to boiler and connect ...
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What is this wire that runs across the baseboard?

Trying to remove the ugly caulking on the baseboard in the basement and noticed this deadline of wire was running along the baseboard, I have seen in the past but not able to figure out what it is. I ...
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Hooking up new line volt thermostat for elec baseboard

Trying to install a new thermostat to electric baseboard heating. Heating is 240 V, new thermostat is Honeywell RLV3150 Current dial thermostat is hooked up, and the junction box has 3 wires going to ...
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Adding Runtal Baseboard to a Fin Tube hydronic heating zone

I purchased some Runtal base board heaters a while ago. I am trying to install them into an existing multi zone fin tube system. In the zone I am trying to install them I have fin tube before the ...
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Refinish Cement curb trim in garage

I am in the process of refinishing my garage floor. I'm hoping to finish with an epoxy coat that runs up the wall slightly. I have an 8 inch tall concrete box/curb/baseboard around the perimeter of ...
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How to safely slow/stop/block hot water baseboard heating?

Background: I rent a room in a house that has hot water baseboard heating. I like it cool when I sleep. I also have a cat so I have to keep my door shut and can only open the windows a small amount. ...
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Drywall repair and baseboards

I have holes behind my baseboards from a company drying out flooring from a water leak. Do I need to patch the holes before putting up new baseboards?
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Base Shoe Gap Coverage

We had our floors refinished but they ripped the original shoe off. I have some gaps that are little more than 1/2 inch from floor to baseboard (which is attached to 100+ year old plaster). Will ...
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Disconnecting 240 hots without disconnecting neutral?

I have a subpanel with two circuits on it, A and B, with 4 wires leaving the panel, two blue, one red, one white. The red wire was on circuit A, 20A single pole, and the two blue wires were on a ...
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How to fix vinyl baseboard cut lines in bathroom?

Is there a reason my contractor cut the floor baseboard in the bathroom like this? it looks messy, the cuts are blurry on camera but visible to person walking by. It seems to be every 4 ft. (1) Is ...
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Leaving room under baseboard to install vinyl over parquet later. Is it possible is it a good idea?

We just refinished the parquet we have in two of the basement rooms (a living and a master bedroom) I am going to install the baseboards this weekend I am not a big fan of the result but I am not in ...
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What can I use to cover broken cut baseboard angle?

I've tried to replace my wood baseboard; I cut it without 45° angles so now the final result isn't nice. Does some angle cover exist that I can use ? Thanks
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Code requirements for wall/baseboard

We are going to install some engineered laminate flooring on the bottom floor of our home. Knowing that baseboards are a requirement for that project, I wondered if I could kill two birds with one ...
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How to connect mismatched height baseboards?

I had a wall put up where a closet used to be and want to put in baseboard at the bottom. I have found that the floor is actually uneven and tapers at the end. So if I push the baseboard in for the ...
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How to finish a wall over a curb?

I am turning a detached garage into a workshop. So I'm insulating it and putting up drywall. The issue is all of the walls sit on top of a 3.5 inch curb of concrete. I don't live in an area where ...
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Should I fill space between subfloor and wall that would be under new baseboards?

In my new-to-me home the baseboard moulding was originally put in before the plywood subfloor. We are installing engineered hardwood so I pulled up the baseboards to provide the expansion gap with ...
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Remove baseboard from small closet

I am preparing to remove baseboard trim from a small closet and I am wondering which strategy I should follow, given: the pieces closer to the door trim (baseboard cut at 90 degrees, let's call them ...
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Upstairs heating zone wont turn off

I have two zones in my house, upstairs & downstairs. Baseboard heat/ boiler/ propane. I noticed that regardless of the thermostat reading (nonprogrammable circle honeywell heat only) i can feel ...
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