A baseboard or wall outlet is convenient for connecting a heater, curling-iron, and other electrically heated devices.
A crack between flooring and baseboard may be the air leak that has caused the trouble.
Baseboard and moldings should also be treated in this way.
Much of this can easily be corrected by closing the cracks, usually found in older houses, between flooring and walls at the baseboards.
You will observe in this photograph that the panels between doors and windows are filled with mirrors that run the full length from the molding to the baseboard.
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Now close your eyes and imagine rotating thebaseboard180 around the vertical axis.
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The wood trim around doors and windows and the baseboards were painted grey on site.
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Exposures were made with the enlarger head positioned 565 mm above thebaseboard.
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The courtrooms are nearly identical, rising two stories and featuring leather-covered doors, light and dark cork-tile flooring, pink-granite baseboards, and wood-paneled wainscoting.
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It is elaborately decorated as well, starting with a one-foot (30 cm) three-member moldedbaseboardrunning around the room's entire perimeter.
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Hydronic systems circulate water from a boiler or heater to places in the house needing heat, such asbaseboardheaters or radiators.
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Initially, there was nobaseboardmolding and the plaster finished flush to the flooring.
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The new public hallways, lobbies, and stairs featured marble baseboards, treads, and landings, and terrazzo with a marble border served as flooring.
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Every few weeks, take a little extra time and use the crevice tool for cleaning around baseboards and radiators and in other hard-to-reach places.
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On-site wall panels can be constructed to accommodate door frames,baseboard, or any other intrusion.
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The walls have their original oakbaseboardand plaster; many of the oak doors are original.
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It has equally sized rectangular front and back panels on a full-width double-extensionbaseboardthat is hinged near the front.
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These sets came with white/grey masonite baseboards.
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The walls have a similar combination ofbaseboardand molding as the other rooms.
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Electric resistance heat can be provided bybaseboardheaters, space heaters, radiant heaters, furnaces, wall heaters, or thermal storage systems.
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