We just installed a new wood floor and will be installing 4 inch white baseboard. The baseboard we have picked out is preprimed and I think it is MDF. We will be painting it white (swiss coffee). One guy has said the best way is to spray the paint after the baseboards are installed. He will caulk the boards, fill the nailholes, then spray. Another has said that it is best to brush the boards because if we spray and later (a few years down the road) want to touch up areas because of marks or scratches, the brushed on touchups will not match the original spray. To be honest, I'm not sure how often we would "touch up" the boards as that does not seem to be something that we really notice too much after all of the furniture goes in.
Both guys are going to charge us about $1000 to do about 200 linear feet of caulking, filling, and painting. Does this sound reasonable? We are also considering doing this ourselves (brush) but right now with my work schedule I have almost no time and we would like to get this done and finish our flooring project so that we can get back into our house.
By the way, we installed our own crown molding in a few rooms about two years ago, painted before we put them up, then caulked the holes and touched up those areas and it came out well, but that was a much smaller painting job and I had a lot more time to do it myself. Also, because we did it ourselves, we were probably a lot easier on the "mistakes" then if a professional had done it!
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Both guys are going to charge us about $1000 to do about 200 linear feet of caulking, filling, and painting. Does this sound reasonable? We are also considering doing this ourselves (brush) but right now with my work schedule I have almost no time and we would like to get this done and finish our flooring project so that we can get back into our house.
By the way, we installed our own crown molding in a few rooms about two years ago, painted before we put them up, then caulked the holes and touched up those areas and it came out well, but that was a much smaller painting job and I had a lot more time to do it myself. Also, because we did it ourselves, we were probably a lot easier on the "mistakes" then if a professional had done it!
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