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

Use your head. You want air flow across the floor and up through the
baseboard. More space is better than less.

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LSMFT

I look outside this morning and everything was in 3D!

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:36:34 -0400, LSMFT wrote:

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

Use your head. You want air flow across the floor and up through the
baseboard. More space is better than less.

Please explain how you get air flow up through the baseboard.

Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:36:34 -0400, wrote:

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

Use your head. You want air flow across the floor and up through the
baseboard. More space is better than less.

Please explain how you get air flow up through the baseboard.

Heat rises when the thing is hot thus drawing in cold air from the
bottom. You should know that.

--
LSMFT

I look outside this morning and everything was in 3D!

LSMFT wrote:
Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:36:34 -0400, wrote:

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

Use your head. You want air flow across the floor and up through the
baseboard. More space is better than less.

Please explain how you get air flow up through the baseboard.

Heat rises when the thing is hot thus drawing in cold air from the
bottom. You should know that.

OP is talking about the wood moulding on the base of the wall, not the
flippin' radiators, y'all. Suggest you sort 'by subject' and read the
first 2-3 posts of a thread before you comment.

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aem sends...

On 8/30/2010 1:48 PM, Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:05:47 -0400, wrote:

Use your head. You want air flow across the floor and up through the
baseboard. More space is better than less.

Please explain how you get air flow up through the baseboard.

Heat rises when the thing is hot thus drawing in cold air from the
bottom. You should know that.

--
LSMFT

I am aware that hot air rises. Any fifth grader would know that.
What you haven't explained is how it goes "up through the baseboard."

Explain that.

or "across the floor". Here in Kansas, we call that a draft, and it is
undesirable.

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Steve Barker
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