Hi, David Lupberger with servicemagic.com today were going to be replacing shoe mold. And shoe is this piece of molding and its used where hard wood floors needs walls and need cabinets. So you can see shoe molds over time it can be nicked and dinged to the point where they need to replaced. The materials were going to be using are tape measure, hammer, small screw driver which you’ll see or use like a PriBar, saw, the cutting box.
Step one is to remove the existing shoe molding. So I'm going to use my screw driver in this case to start to loosen up this molding. Now be careful when you're doing this that you're not damaging the cabinet behind it. And what I’ll do next is to take this piece and cut my new piece to match this one exactly so I can put my replacement piece where this used to be. The piece of trim were replacing has two outside cuts. So I'm going to take this new piece of trim we've purchased and put an outside cut on one side, you’ll see I'm using a simple little hand miter box. If you're doing very much of this it may make sense to buy a power miter saw because the job will go much more quickly.
The miter box has given us a clean 45 degree cut and because I measured the previous piece at 21 and a quarter inches I'm going to come over and 21 and a quarter on the new piece and do another outside cut after I've made that cut I can replace my piece because it will match exactly.
I've got our new piece to trim and were going to put it in place and what you’ll see, I've actually preset some nails. I did for two reasons. One is one side begin to anchor this in place it makes it easier to do with the nails pre-driven that secondly if you're working with the denser piece of wood like oak you may want to pre-drill the hole to make this easier as part of your installation. So ones this is in place make sure you nail both corners and you’ll see I've got two or three nails in between. So I'm going to drive that first nail in, I'm using a nail punch because when I drive the nail and I don’t want the head of the hammer to damage the trim. So when I get close I’ll take my nail punch to complete putting the nail in with the hole that its left I’ll actually take some wood filler that matches the finish and fill that hole. What you'll have when you're done is a piece of clean trim with no nail holes and everything will look complete.
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