BS. Base is normally raised off the floor. This makes life
better for the carpet layer and allows more of the base to show.
My age is showing now, but we used to use 3/4 back in the days of
red and black shag. With heavy padding I would imagine it would
still work just fine.

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"Gordon Shumway" wrote in message
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:25:55 -0700 (PDT), sid

wrote:

Getting ready to have carpet installed and I want to know the
proper
height to install the baseboard from the floor (Short shag or
berber).
I have seen this question posted before, but I don't believe a
definitive answer was given.

The best advice the other articles gave was to ask the carpet
installer. We had the sales guy here the other day to measure
up the
floor space, and I ask what height he would recommend. But he
really
didn't have an answer. He pointed to the wallboard that I left
up 1/2"
from the floor and stated that that would be plenty.

I thought that the industry would have a standard ?

Thanks

Why would you want to install the base trim off the floor? That
would
increase the difficulty of the trim installation for no reason.

Most homes have base moulding installed on the floor
(underlayment)
for all carpeted rooms. Any rooms using something other than
carpet
such as hardwood, tile or sheet goods would be installed before
the
base moulding. The base moulding would then be ripped to a
width that
will line up with the height of the moulding in the carpeted
rooms.