Baseboard and trim installation in San Bruno

Baseboards and casing for San Bruno's older homes

San Bruno's median housing unit was built in 1962, so about half the city's housing units date from that year or earlier. Trim that age is often brittle and splits when it comes off for a new floor. The new floor may also sit higher or lower than the old one, which changes the gap the baseboard has to cover. Some profiles from that era are still stocked; others are not.

We cope inside corners instead of only mitering them, so the joints stay closed when the house moves, then nail, fill, caulk and paint. Save a short piece of the old trim or text a close photo of its profile, and we'll bring samples that come close. Let us know when the floor goes in, and the trim follows it.

Worth knowing about San Bruno

• About 80.4% of San Bruno's 16,433 housing units were built before 1980, and 29.3% went up in the 1950s alone.
• The older eastern half, east of I-280, is flat, with a street grid from its early 20th century roots; the newer western half is mostly single-family subdivisions on curving hillside streets.
• As of the 2009 General Plan, about 3,000 San Bruno homes had benefited from aircraft noise insulation, funded since 1983 for homes inside SFO's 65 CNEL contour.