Baseboard Installation in Oakland, CA

Matching trim in Oakland's Victorian and Craftsman houses

West Oakland holds the city's oldest neighborhoods. Oakland Point, today's Prescott, was built up by the end of the 1870s with Italianate, Stick and Queen Anne houses, and streetcars and the 1906 earthquake later brought Colonial Revival and Craftsman houses to North Oakland. Tall, layered baseboards and casings from those eras rarely match anything sold off the shelf, so a repair starts by measuring the profile.

Send a photo of the trim with a tape measure held against it. Some old profiles have a close stock match and some don't, and we show you samples before buying anything. After new floors, fresh baseboard and shoe molding go on with coped corners, filled nail holes and a caulk line along the wall, painted in place.

Worth knowing about Oakland

About 76.7% of Oakland's 191,713 housing units were built before 1980, and 37.2% in 1939 or earlier, more than in any later decade.
West Oakland holds the city's oldest neighborhoods; Oakland Point, today's Prescott, was built up by the end of the 1870s with Italianate, Stick and Queen Anne houses.
In the hills that burned in 1991, many homes were built on platforms over canyon walls or in levels stepping down the slope, often with the garage at street level.

Install we do in Oakland

Door and window casing
Crown molding
Baseboards in MDF, pine or primed finger-joint
Shoe molding and quarter round

Photos from our trim jobs

Everything we do for baseboard and trim installation

Bedroom painted gray with bright white baseboards and new wood-look plank floor — Gray walls, white baseboards, new floor.

Living room with a tiled fireplace, wood-trimmed windows and new wood-look plank floor — New floor through the living room.

Gray bedroom with a white French door, mirrored closet doors and new plank flooring — French door and closet, fresh paint.

What customers say

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5.0★★★★★

Junior and his crew were awesome to work with. Junior was always on time, respectful, thoughtful, and meticulous in his work. He is genuinely a kind soul and a great human - as were all his crew members. The work was very fairly priced. He always showed up when he said he would and he never kept me guessing. I would strongly recommend his group. For reference, he did a full interior remodel/refresh of our condo: floors, kitchen, walls, and bathrooms.

Raffi S.on Thumbtack

5.0★★★★★

Junior and his team were professional and went above and beyond. We have found our new handyman!

Barbara G.on Thumbtack

Baseboards & trim in Oakland: questions

Do you work in Oakland?

Yes. Oakland is about 22 road miles from our base in San Bruno, roughly 33 minutes without traffic. We work all over town, from Rockridge to Oak Center.

Who issues permits in Oakland?

The City of Oakland Planning and Building Department (Building Construction, Permits and Inspections). Repairs and like-for-like replacements often don't need a permit; layout changes, new plumbing or new electrical usually do. When one is needed, the job is contracted through our licensed partner Bay Builder Inc.

When can noisy work happen in Oakland?

Oakland regulates construction noise by time of day rather than banning work: daytime limits apply 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends and federal holidays, with stricter nighttime limits outside those windows. We schedule noisy work inside those hours.

Do you install baseboards after new flooring?

Yes. It's one of the most common calls: the floor goes in, the old baseboards don't fit or broke coming off, and new ones go on.

Baseboard and trim installation in Oakland