Baseboard, Casing and Crown Molding Repair in Phoenix

Matching the profile

Trim comes in hundreds of profiles, but most Phoenix homes use a handful of common ones, and those are still sold. A short piece cut from the old trim, or a clear photo of its end, is usually enough to find the match. When an older profile isn't made anymore, the closest stock profile goes in at a natural break, such as an inside corner or a door, where the change doesn't show.

Painted trim is easier to match than stained. Paint hides small differences in wood and profile. Stain shows every change in species and grain, so on stained trim it's better to replace a whole wall's run than one piece.

Baseboards

Water-stained baseboard, usually in a bathroom, a laundry room or near a pet bowl, swells at the bottom and the paint bubbles. Kicked baseboard dents and splits. Both get cut out at the nearest joint or corner and replaced. If the drywall behind it is damaged too, we fix that as well.

New flooring often leaves a gap under the baseboard, where the new floor sits lower than the old one. A shoe molding or quarter-round along the bottom covers it without pulling the baseboard off. We often finish the job when a floor installer pulls the baseboard and doesn't put it back.

Casing

Door and window casing cracks at the mitered corners when the frame moves, and splits when a door slams. A cracked casing gets replaced on that side, matched to the others. A whole-house casing replacement, when someone wants to upgrade from flat builder trim to something with a profile, is a bigger job we quote room by room.

Crown molding

Crown opens at the corners because wood shrinks and swells with the air around it, and Phoenix air swings from very dry to humid in monsoon season. Small gaps get filled and caulked. Corners that keep opening get glued and pinned so the two pieces move together. Crown that was never installed right, with the corners cut at the wrong angle, gets recut.

Adding crown to a room that has none is a common job. Rooms with vaulted ceilings or rounded bullnose corners take more care, and the quote reflects it.

Accent walls and mantels

Shiplap, board-and-batten and wainscoting are trim projects, not remodels. A wall gets laid out, the boards or panels go up over the drywall into the studs, and the whole thing gets caulked and painted. One wall in a bedroom or behind a dining table is a day or two. A wood mantel that's loose gets re-anchored into the framing behind it. A new mantel or a new surround around a fireplace gets built to the opening and finished to match the room.

Finishing

New and repaired trim gets filled, caulked where it meets the wall, and painted. The caulk line is what makes trim look finished; without it there's a shadow line at every edge. We also paint trim on its own.

Problems we fix on this page

• Want a shiplap wall
• Want board-and-batten
• Want wainscoting
• Want a wood accent wall
• Baseboard pulling off the wall
• Baseboard water damaged
• Baseboard chewed by a pet
• Baseboard swollen at the bottom
• Baseboard caulk cracked
• Want new baseboards
• Want taller baseboards
• Want shoe molding or quarter-round added
• Door casing cracked
• Window casing gap
• Crown molding gap at the corners
• Crown molding pulling away from the ceiling
• Want crown molding added
• Trim doesn't match after a repair
• Window sill water damaged
• Window sill cracked
• Want a wider window sill
• Fireplace tile cracked
• Want a new mantel
• Mantel loose
• Want the fireplace surround updated
• Want the brick fireplace painted

How it starts

Send a photo of the damaged trim and a close-up of its end or profile, plus the length you need. You get one price for the job before we start. Levi is on site, and we stand behind the work for a year.