We're installing hard floors to replace carpet throughout the house. Instead of tearing out all the baseboards, we thought we would do what most flooring installation companies do, and simply treat the baseboard as the "wall" and use a shoe moulding (we want cove moulding) to cover the expansion gap.

The thing is, all the installation tutorials I've found online show you how to install it around corners and straight walls (duh). I'd like to know what's the preferred method to transition to a door jamb when the shoe moulding will come out further into the room than the door trim.

Do you just taper the bottom of the cove moulding and use caulk to fill in any gaps between the cove moulding and the baseboard? That's the best idea I could come up with, but was hoping someone could either affirm that or come up with something better.

Here's about the only pic on the web I could find, and it looks like they just chopped it off... I don't like that look. Maybe my search terms are off.

Mitered return back into the base.

Yep.

That's how I'm doing all of mine as I replace the floor, so I hope it's right!

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That looks bad and cheap, plinth block it.

Plinths solve a lot of issues.

cheap, simple, elegant.  The raise of spec homes and cheap construction killed them and they are only 5 min per door, and maybe 3$ in materials

get a undercut saw

PLINTHS!

Thanks, guys!

Why is it that it seems like terminology is often the only thing standing between someone's problem and a resolution?  

My contractor used 90 degree returns into the baseboard. I think that looks nice.

Job security - only the "in crowd" knows the code.

Not all molding styles look good with plinths.

Some get so wide on multi-piece door casings it looks bad.

Mitered return.

Don't use whatever "shoe" is in that photo. Looks like some sort of cove moulding.
Also, with shoe, the tall part goes up.
Buy the pre-primed stuff and buy or borrow a miter saw.
Cope your inside corners.

That's not my photo, but for our style baseboards we liked the cove moulding.  

I realize that it's not your photo, and you can do what you want, but I find that cove to be to too large and out of proportion to the base.
I like things to "flow" vertically up the wall. You could put the cove on top if you like as it would flow nicely from the base to the wall.

If that is cove you are making one more place for dust and debris to get caught.

Is it me or it that crown being used a casing? Can't tell from the pic.

J-