He should have asked you before cutting the boards. But he's got a (minor) point in that it is sometimes done like he did. If he can't do a miter joint, he sure won't know how to join two boards seamlessly. But since one of the boards at every corner was cut too short, he will have to buy new boards. ![]() You are the customer, and you could request that they be redone.There's no excuse for a flooring contractor not to learn a minimum of finish carpentry.So I don't know what your contractor was thinking. It's easier to do miter cuts than to add putty, wait to dry, sand, add more putty, wait to dry, sand, prime, then wait, then paint.I just installed new floors and changed the baseboards on a house built in the 50's that had the original baseboards cut square, like your flooring guy did (it's a long explanation, but the old baseboards could not be reused in this case.) Of course, I did miter joints and took care of all of the details, but I'm a carpenter, not a flooring guy (the house sold in 24 hours, several bids in, way over asking price, so I guess people do notice a quality job.) It is also true that sometimes square baseboards are cut square, like did yours. And if you don't want to bring the saw inside (after all, you have new floors), then you have to walk the pieces one by one outside, cut, bring them back in, etc. And you need to bring a miter saw, which is heavy and cumbersome to maneuver inside of a house. Not a big amount of skill, mind you, but something that takes a few hours to teach an apprentice. ![]() It's really easy to do when walls meet at exactly 90-deg, but takes some skill to do when the walls are at any other angle from each other. What you call "cutting the edges at angles" is called a miter joint.
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