Painting/flooring... what order?

[hulagirl87]

So DH and I are going to be redoing the 3 bedrooms in our house. I don't know yet if we are going to do them one at a time or if it is best to do all 3 at once?

Anyways, right now we have carpet, but want to have hardwood flooring. Should we paint the walls first, then put down the floors? DH said that the baseboard moulding has to come up for the floor to be put down. If the painter is including painting the baseboards, how would he paint them if we are going to be taking them off the walls to put the floor down? that would lead me to believe that the floor should go down. But if they paint and drip stuff on the new floor, that might cause me to have a meltdown.... what to do?

 

[singingpixie]

I would pull the baseboard, paint it and the walls separately, replace the floors and then put the painted moldings back down.

 

[kangareaux]

paint then flooring. Have the painters paint the baseboards and *tack* them on loosely or cut and leave them off. Then have your flooring done and put the baseboards on permanently.

 

[golfgal]

The baseboards will have to come off and I doubt the painter will have a problem with having to paint the trim while on a sawhorse vs being on the wall-it will be much less work for him that way too. The flooring installer will be the one to put the trim back on (at least our's did when we put in wood floors). You will just have to be somewhat careful marking the trim pieces so it goes back in the right spots.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Not all floorers include the baseboards it is an extra. In fact they can be rough with them or they can be damaged when your flooring is done.

Additionally....having hardwood laid is dusty, dusty, dusty so you have to make sure that you give your paint dry time.

I would pull the baseboards myself, have the walls done and then the floors. I would paint the baseboards myself.

 

[comicguy]

Totally agree with this

Not all floorers include the baseboards it is an extra. In fact they can be rough with them or they can be damaged when your flooring is done.

Additionally....having hardwood laid is dusty, dusty, dusty so you have to make sure that you give your paint dry time.

I would pull the baseboards myself, have the walls done and then the floors. I would paint the baseboards myself.

 

[DarthKTrava]

We did the walls first and then the flooring. That way, we didn't care if we got paint all over the old linoleum.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Oh and since they are bedrooms, you are going to have to vacate your rooms when they do the floors.

It is like moving. I would empty the bedrooms when you have them laid.

You cannot believe all the dust from getting them laid.

Also if you have a basement cover the stuff there, unless it is finished. Lesson learned there. The dust fell from the top onto all of our stuff in the basement.

Natually you would do ALL the flooring at once since it is hardwood.