gap between doorway casings & new hardwood floors

There's a noticeable gap (about 1/4") between our new hardwood floors and pre-exisiting entryway casings (no doors hang on them). I'm wondering if we can fill the gaps somehow without lowering or replacing the casings. Seems a bit too wide for just caulk/putty. Thanks for any ideas!

 

New floors, new construction??? You mean a verticle gap??? If it is a doorway, no doors, you can use 1/4 rnd or shoe molding to cover the gap. If with doors, I would have to make a piece to fit under the jamb.

 

Thanks, Just Bill, for the reply. It's an older home, and as I discovered after checking again, the horizontal gaps were previously cut out about 3/4 of the way across the bottom of the casings/jambs of my two doorless kitchen entranceways in order to accomodate the vinyl flooring and thick underlayment that is now replaced with the shorter hardwood flooring, allowing the gaps to show. I think you're right than I'm going to have to make a piece to fit under each casing/jamb, trying to match the curves on the casings, then calk. -BW

 

If the jambs are painted, find some foam backer rod or similar, to fill the gap, then caulk using a flat piece of plastic or metal to wipe the caulk. That should give you a clean looking fill.

 

Your problem is easily solved... First off you just need to purchase a piece of casing that matches the existing casing you currently have.Finding a matching casing should not be difficult. There are basically 10 or so very common casing details that are used Id say on more than 95% of door openings so honestly if it took an entire afternoon to find yours Id be surprised. Ok so once you find some matching material(oh and one more thing... you need to use "Like" materials so if your casing is natural wood then fill w/ the same (doesnt have to be the same wood species unless its stained) or if its MDF then use Mdf and so-on.Ok now next you need to cut the bottoms of your existing casings so that they are all as close to square to the floor as possible( I use a tool called Made by Fein called "The Multimaster" but you can do it with just a handsaw in that case Id use a Dovetail saw)Now once the casings are squar then its just a matter of cutting some pieces to fit using a Mitre Saw (leave them a shy1/16" heavy so that they will fit snug)then using some wood glue tap them into place and once dried they will take very little sanding to make them look as if the were always there.