How To Install Vinyl Cove Base

Materials Needed to Install Vinyl Wall Base

- Enough linear feet of vinyl wall base, for your project. Factor in effectually 5-x% chip.

- Utility knife

- Wall base adhesive

1 x 30 oz. cartridge is good for 60 linear feet of base
1 10 Quart of base adhesive is good for 60 linear feet of base
one x Gallon of base adhesive is skilful for 240 linear feet of base

- Application equipment, for applying base adhesive

method A - cartridge gun and snozzle (pictured)
method B - cartridge gun and spreader
method C - spreader with a tub of agglutinative (either one quart or 1 gallon tub)

- Speed foursquare (optional)

- Cutting surface (whatsoever chip piece of wood)

- Moisture rag

Material used to install vinyl wall base including wet rag, utility knife, cartridge gun, snozzle, and speed square.

Steps to Install Vinyl Wall Base

Barrel the end of the ringlet up to the wall.
Unroll the roll of vinyl wall base the length of the wall, in order to estimate the length.
Mark where to make your cut, just give yourself a couple extra inches.
Make a square cut.

You should now have an unrolled length of dry out dorsum vinyl wall base of operations that is roughly the length of the wall.

Vinyl wall base on the ground that is the length of the wall.

Brand sure that the toe of the vinyl wall base is towards the wall with the finished side down, significant the ribbed side is up.

Strip of vinyl wall base with the ribbed side up and the toe of the base towards the wall.

For these instructions nosotros will apply the adhesive gun and the xxx oz. agglutinative cartridge with the snozzle zipper.
You can accomplish the same application of agglutinative with the gun and spreader, or the spreader with a tub of adhesive.
Puncture the adhesive cartridge with needle on the adhesive gun.
Insert cartridge into the guy and apply the snozzle.
Begin pulling the trigger of the adhesive gun to push agglutinative through the snozzle.
Once adhesive is coming through the snozzle, nosotros are ready to apply the adhesive to the vinyl wall base. With a polish consequent pressure, pull the gun trigger to apply adhesive on the vinyl wall base.

Man using adhesive gun with snozzle attachment to apply adhesive to the vinyl wall base.

Slowly and steadily work your manner down the length of the wall.

Man applies adhesive to the middle of the strip of vinyl wall base.

End that downwardly the entire length of the vinyl wall base of operations.
We should at present have a piece of base that has adhesive, side up, the entire length of the wall.
Go dorsum to the starting edge and brainstorm to press the adhesive side of the base of operations to the wall. Printing firmly.

Man begins to press vinyl wall base with adhesive to the starting point of the wall.

Printing firmly downward the unabridged length of the base.

Man continues to firmly press vinyl wall base up against the length of the wall.

Clean up and wipe downwardly the excess adhesive with a moisture rag.
Run the wet rag downwards the entire length of the base.

Man runs a wet rag over the length of the wall base.

There should be some excess base of operations at the 2d end of the wall. Using your speed foursquare, cut off the excess.

Man cuts off the excess wall base with a speed square

Congrats! y'all should at present have an unabridged wall length of vinyl wall base of operations installed.

Finished vinyl wall base in an empty room

At present, the hard role, finish an inside corner. Cutting a length of base of operations the correct size, leaving some fleck, like you did before in the instructions.
On the side that will make an inside corner, apply your speed foursquare to cut the toe of the base at a 45 degree angle.