OMG I'm so glad I found this video. I'm rehabbing my rental more of a facelift refinishing the floors and replacing all the roundover molding and window trim with rectangular trim like you have there. You know hard edge on the windows and 45 on the base. And I was going to use all poplar. I even went to a lumber yard and was going to special order. It was about to pull the trigger and it was going to be like 2100 bucks and then I went and priced out what the MDF cost at Lowe's and I don't have a table saw and I don't even have a straight edge that I would use. I just paid them the extra money to cut it for me. I just had them cut 4-in baseboards and 3-in trim boards and 5-in 3/4-in headers. Amazing video. I just got back from the store and I remember when I was taking a break. I watched your video again mine's a little bit different than yours cuz I have a smaller house but I can't believe I was about to spend so much on hardwood and MDF and primer for everything. It was less than 350 bucks. I mean it took me like 3 days. You know of cutting and sanding and priming and then I even took the time to prepaint them because I'm using flat paint and it was easy to touch up after I filled all my nail holes. Now I'm hoping my little rental will be a little bit more modern looking. Oh by the way, if anybody's wondering I stain the wood floors which are original to the 1968 house. I stained them black with a satin clear and painted the walls, swiss coffee and the trim pure white and I painted the red brick exterior Swiss coffee

Good video but one huge mistake. On MDF use sanding sealer before priming and painting. Thats why your MDF absorbed so much primer. Using sanding sealer first, you can use a paint and primer combo and get a much glossier finish if that's what you like.

Great idea! It’s a lot of work but I, personally have more time than money.

If you are using mdf, you need to prime all edges because if you ever have a spill that goes under the baseboard or runs down the wall, it will swell up like a balloon.

I've been planning on doing this. Glad to see someone do it first.

This is BRILLIANT!! Definitely worth the effort!! I just purchased my first home and I'm removing the baseboards and installing new floors. So, I'll definitely need new baseboards.

Can't wait to see it in person!

Great video and very well produced! Thanks for this, I’m going to try upgrading our moulding soon.

Looks beautiful!

Genius! You've saved me a bundle.

Oh wow! I never would have guessed you made these! I saw them today I thought it was amazing!

Dude! Lifesaver…

Excellent! I have a small two bedroom one bathroom townhouse. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do something different, but not spend a fortune. Wider moldings make a place looks so much more classy. Thank you very much.

love it, saved me 300$+ thanks a bunch

I looked for this video years ago…. Didn’t exist…. Thank you.

I was looking at the cost to replace all my baseboards and I was shocked at the cost. Thank you very much for this idea.

Great video! Thanks for the information. Hope to do something like this on the apartment I'm working on!

I love the baseboards in my house

Great video! Keep at it you will have 100k subs in time.

Most of my customers in my are want an ogee moulded skirting and during covid we couldn't get it so made our own simply on the router table but I am never happy with the "end grain" as no matter how much you sand or buy better primers I still think you can see it so last time we tried something different, we gave it a sand so it was smooth, cleaned it off the wrapped them in thick brown smooth craft paper. Glued it with a watered down PVA. The results were unbelievable. A perfect smooth finish, no roughness or visible "end grain" I haven't bought any ready made ones since. It's drastically reduced my costs on jobs.

Great video, well produced, straight to the point. Exactly what I’ve been looking for. Earned yourself a new subscriber! Now, would you mind making a video on how to create corner blocks (as in crown moulding not having to saw ceiling moulding in an angle). Cheers from Sweden!

Superb!

Very good idea thanks

Thanks for the tips. Saved me some coin!!

I'm doing the same... making my own, but will be using poplar for my baseboards & door frames and either clear pine or MDF for the rest (crown, bookshelf buildouts, etc.). I think poplar will hold up much better in areas that *may* get knocked or kicked, with less chance of scratching or denting. Either way, I'll save a ton as you point out. Like you, I'm doing simple square trim with a 45 degree chamfer to match my new kitchen shaker doors and carrying it into my family room remodel so it all ties together nicely. I'm still debating the need and style of "shoe" molding I may or may not put in.

Man what i could do if i had my own wood shop..

i sincerely regret to not have thought to do my molding myself when i renovated my house. I ended up buying the cheapest molding to lower cost and those look really old fashion. I may redo the door trim at some point since my miter corner opened up. Nice to know its as easy I thought it would be (after the fact unfortunately)

Thank you from lethbridge alberta canada. I need to do full baseboards, door and window trim in our basement. I am leary of mdf because it swells when wet, always an issue in below grade work. But I am on a tight budget and wondering what I could do with some sort of real wood stock. I would also like to come up with some way to attach baseboards so they could be easily removed the next time we paint. Yourvideo was great. I would use a pusher stick to make sure those fingers are always at least a foot away from the blade.

Use sheetrock primer, its super thick and fantastic coverage! Gratitude for the ve

In my imagination I would stagger moulding with multiple different profiles and stack them on top of each other to create an effect where it looks like the wood is very thick with a lot of details, maybe even stack them all around an archway. I also envision moulding made of stamped copper and bronze and nickel with intricate shapes and details...but than I realize I'm still making a spray booth out of metal and it's taking forever so that'll have to wait. I'll probably take pictures if you want to see it. I came up with the idea of using EMT conduit from the hardware store after seeing the prices, it's so cheap. The corner tube brackets I'm cutting and welding are taking a long time though. It could take a while.

Very nice work. What kind and size of fasteners did you use, brad or finish nail?

Hi, great help for diyers' do you have to use an oil based paint for the primer? I have read that you shouldn't use a water base paint on MDF. What is your experience been with either type of paint? Thanks much.

What size (width, height, thickness) did you create the plinth blocks for transition from door casing to floorboards? Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the knowledge. Quick question, why the copen cut on inside •45 cuts on baseboard? What would happen if you just •45 it? Thanks .

For the door trim. You used 1/2" MDF 3.5" wide for the sides, but for the top did you use 3/4"MDF 5" wide? Also looks like you ran the top door trim past the side trim. How much overhang did you use? Also did you 45-degree Chamfer all ends such as the door trim side top where it hits the top header 3/4" MDF trim.

Wow you rock

I prefer BIN primer for practically everything.

I hate buying moulding -- should have done it this way!

How do you prevent damage to the drywall when ripping out the old stuff?

How did you hold up the mdf sheet when you were cutting it with the circular saw?

Where did you source your boards? I can’t find a sheet of mdf for less than 50 dollars and it makes it where I might come out even after paint and primer…

whats the brand of flooring it loooks great!

The other issue is that MDF dulls blades and bits FAST. Penny smart and pound foolish, imho. Better economy can be had by selecting framing lumber to shape with a table saw and router imho.

What’s your to go to paint for final coat?

Hi there! What gauge nail did you use?

I’m installing vinyl planks should I install baseboard first?

Yes. If you have those table saws. But if you need to buy those saws, table , need the space primer, ….. it will come to that number. Or even more

Dude you shoulda done like SOME sort of cool profiles in them. Even if it was something super Simple like lines of rounds going straight across the whole length or 2 square grooves. I did One would really like to see how to properly take (for example - palette wood (maybe ran through a thickness planer so each piece is perfectly the thickness of course) then how to cut unique customized profiles. I see no one on all of KZfaq just freestyling as such - getting creative with different router bits to make their own trim or molding. So I’d like to. & id like to see how they might approach it. Would they cut each board with the 1st piece then switch out router bits & run those pieces through & so on? Would they record their bits used or record this in notes to have it down in case they ever needed? I’m jus saying I’m new to all of this. And I’m a girl & I’ll tell ya - learning all this wood stuff is HARD. There’s no wood working classes near me either. I want to make total use of recycled wood & learn all the different cuts

"How to cut and sand MDF" would be a better title.

See if you can spot my 3 cameo appearances...

I think you'd be better off using pine. Still cheaper and better then mdf.

Why wouldn't you paint everything before putting it on and them just fill and paint over the nail holes.

what about the cost of the tools that you will need to cut the boards? You may end up spending more rather than saving.

mitter saw can cut 45 degress looks more profesional than straight cuts

The idea is an A plus, and the tool used is a D. Ending on a high note, you can lose 9 fingers and still scratch your butt if you like.

Good video but you forgot to use any footage of yourself actually making the molding..

Seems to me if you can afford all these super fancy tools, you can certainly just buy the finished baseboards? Lol. The time and effort you are taking to making all this stuff doesn't really make much sense to me, but the video was educational for someone who owns all these tools, etc. I mean who has a table saw that size? Or all these router bits? Add up the labor time, expenses of the tools, etc., and it would probably cost twice as much than just buying the damn things finished. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of time on my hands.

Not at all helpful except MDF is cheaper than wood. You didn't show any moding cutting with router.

Cutting mdf is dangerous, you didn’t mention that, I did see you wear a gas mask but nothing was mentioned…

Just don't mop the floors.

Mdf blows.

So to do it myself I safe money but I have to buy thousands in expensive super specialized machinery. This is what sucks about DIY channels that expect people to have a damn carpentry shop in their house.

Cheap and easy to work with ,how ridiculous is that? How about quality? I am European living in US for a long time , and I still don't understand how we do such a crappy job renovating our houses in US.

Didn't really explain anything