Hi, I have a small problem. In one room, there are two different floors with about an 8mm height difference.
This height difference occurs right at an outer corner (the room is L-shaped).
What should I do when attaching the baseboards?
Do I cut one of them 1cm?
It feels like it will look terrible and be quite difficult, plus the baseboard will continue onto the higher floor (though they won't be next to each other).
Or is it more sensible to try to raise the lower one somehow?
This height difference occurs right at an outer corner (the room is L-shaped).
What should I do when attaching the baseboards?
Do I cut one of them 1cm?
It feels like it will look terrible and be quite difficult, plus the baseboard will continue onto the higher floor (though they won't be next to each other).
Or is it more sensible to try to raise the lower one somehow?
One can finish the baseboards with a 45-degree angle and add a piece so the baseboard turns down to the floor, but I would probably just cut the higher baseboard at a slight angle in that corner so the transition is angled. If you kneel down and look closely it looks "so-so," but most people who enter the room won't even look at the baseboards, so it's just you and people like us who hang out on BH who notice things like that 
Thanks for the response, it's likely true what you write about who can see it.
If my ASCII art works, are you thinking of something like _____/------------, vertically I assume?
What makes it a bit tricky is that I plan to use pre-painted ones that also (like all) have a rounded edge on the top. It would be a matter of carving or borrowing a router for this to achieve the rounding, and then either biting the bullet and painting them all, or cheating and painting the "new" part.
I'm not quite on board with the first proposal though. 45-degree angle on both, "outwards," so they don't even meet?
For 45 degrees, I was probably planning to go with it anyway, I always do that at outer corners.
If my ASCII art works, are you thinking of something like _____/------------, vertically I assume?
What makes it a bit tricky is that I plan to use pre-painted ones that also (like all) have a rounded edge on the top. It would be a matter of carving or borrowing a router for this to achieve the rounding, and then either biting the bullet and painting them all, or cheating and painting the "new" part.
I'm not quite on board with the first proposal though. 45-degree angle on both, "outwards," so they don't even meet?
For 45 degrees, I was probably planning to go with it anyway, I always do that at outer corners.
The first suggestion becomes tricky in an outer corner, missed it :blushing:
But suggestion 2 is exactly as you drew, as I said not many people will look there so saw, whittle a bit and paint what is sawed is what I would have done
But suggestion 2 is exactly as you drew, as I said not many people will look there so saw, whittle a bit and paint what is sawed is what I would have done
saw from the bottom instead…N Niklas_x said:Thanks for the response, what you wrote about who sees it is probably correct.
If my ASCII art works, you're thinking of something like _____/------------, vertically I assume?
What makes it a bit tricky is that I plan to use pre-painted ones which also (like all) have a rounded edge on the top. It would be a matter of carving/taking a router to get the rounding, and then either biting the bullet and painting all of them, or cheating and painting the "new" one..
It looks best if you buy, for example, 12x56mm baseboard for the higher floor and 12x70mm which you cut down to 12x64. Then simply miter these together and the top edge will be even despite the difference in floor thickness. Cut on the side that faces down towards the floor.