Baseboard Installation Cost Calculator

This estimates what it costs to fit baseboard, starting from the perimeter of up to three rectangular rooms less the door and cased openings. It adds half a foot of stock for each outside-corner mitre, applies a waste allowance and rounds up to whole sticks, then prices material on what you buy and labour, removal of the old trim and painting on what actually gets installed. Every rate is yours to enter, so none of the figures here go stale. A second mode takes a footage you have already measured. It walks rectangles, so an L-shaped room or a bay needs its extra wall added in by hand.

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The per-length prices below are read in the same unit, so a price per metre goes with a length in metres.

Up to three rectangular rooms. The perimeter of each, less the door openings, is the length that gets installed.

Leave both room 2 boxes at zero if there is only one room.
In inches if you chose feet above, in centimetres if you chose metres. Measure across the casing, not the door leaf: a 30 in door in 2.5 in casing is about 35 in, or 89 cm, of wall with no baseboard on it.
Corners that stick out into the room, such as a chimney breast or a wall return. Each one is a mitre pair and wastes about half a foot, or 0.15 m, of stock.
10% covers ordinary offcuts. Go to 15% for a room with many short walls or for a profile you cannot butt-joint neatly.
In whichever unit you chose above. US stock is usually 8, 12 or 16 ft; metric stock is usually 2.4, 3.0 or 4.4 m.
Leave at zero if you are fitting it yourself. Ask the carpenter whether their rate already includes filling, caulking and nail holes.
Zero on new construction. Pulling old trim off often takes wall repair with it, which is not counted here.
Zero if the baseboard comes prefinished or you are painting it yourself.
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Measurements In
The per-length prices below are read in the same unit, so a price per metre goes with a length in metres.

When the walls are already tallied, this takes the footage straight to a cost.

The length that actually gets fitted, in the unit you chose above, with the doorways already taken off.
Corners that stick out into the room, such as a chimney breast or a wall return. Each one is a mitre pair and wastes about half a foot, or 0.15 m, of stock.
10% covers ordinary offcuts. Go to 15% for a room with many short walls or for a profile you cannot butt-joint neatly.
In whichever unit you chose above. US stock is usually 8, 12 or 16 ft; metric stock is usually 2.4, 3.0 or 4.4 m.
Leave at zero if you are fitting it yourself. Ask the carpenter whether their rate already includes filling, caulking and nail holes.
Zero on new construction. Pulling old trim off often takes wall repair with it, which is not counted here.
Zero if the baseboard comes prefinished or you are painting it yourself.
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