Greening Your Home - Keeping original baseboards

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Markd123
03-03-08, 08:16 AM
I am renovating a bedroom which had un-salvageable plaster and lath walls but the baseboards are in good enough shape to keep. The plaster and lath has all been removed with the baseboards kept in place with plaster and lath still behind them. What I did was remove the lath closest to to top of the baseboard and left the rest. This makes it so I can put the sheetrock in behind the baseboard by 1/2" to 1".
My quesetion is this: the thickness of the plaster and lath was about 1/4" more than the 1/2" sheetrock I will be using. What is a good way to make the new look good with the old?

Gunguy45
03-03-08, 08:30 AM
Hey Markd

Could you possibly add a base cap to the top of the existing base? If your drywall sits lower than the lath/plaster did, the base cap would sit flat to the drywall, but extend past the back of the base. Really only works if the base has a flat top tho.

Would really be better if you could carefully remove the base, install new drywall and re-install base.

How about going up to 5/8 drywall, or maybe putting up 1/4 then 1/2 drywall?

Just some thoughts, still early for me.