Cedar Mill Property Repair installs and repairs the trim inside your house: baseboard, crown molding, wainscoting and beadboard, accent walls and fireplace mantels, in Bethany, Cedar Mill, Beaverton and neighboring west-side blocks. By a Portland-area estimate, a baseboard job runs $300-$2,500 for labour, typically around $900 .
New trim nearly always gets painted once it's up, and that work is covered under interior painting. Slava does the carpentry himself, and finish carpentry fills a good share of his 7 years of hands-on work .
What trim work do you do?
Baseboard, first of all: new runs, replacing a damaged stretch, or putting it back after new flooring or a leak. Shoe molding and quarter round go along with it. Crown molding runs where wall meets ceiling, one room or a whole floor.
Lower-wall paneling covers wainscoting, beadboard and board-and-batten. Accent walls mean shiplap, slat panels or a paneled grid on one wall. For mantels, think a shelf or a beam mounted above the firebox . If the accent wall has outlets or switches in it, the boxes have to come forward to the new face .
Three close cousins live elsewhere: door casing under door repair, window casing under window repair, and rotten exterior boards under wood rot repair.
What does trim carpentry cost around Portland?
Labour-only Portland-area market figures, November 2026: usual hours times local carpenter rates. Budget with them until Slava swaps in ours.
| Trim job | From | Usually | Up to | Rough labour time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseboard install or repair | $300 | $900 | $2,500 | about a day (8 h) |
| Crown molding | $400 | $1,000 | $2,500 | about a day (9 h) |
| Wainscoting or beadboard | $600 | $1,500 | $3,500 | about two days (14 h) |
| Accent wall (shiplap, slats, panels) | $500 | $1,200 | $2,500 | a day or a bit more (10 h) |
| Mantel shelf or beam | $300 | $600 | $1,500 | half a day (5 h) |
The number moves with linear feet, how many inside and outside corners there are, stock versus custom profile, ceiling height for crown, whether old trim has to come off first, and how far out of flat the walls and floors are. Materials are on top and depend a lot on the profile you pick .
Oregon draws a line at $2,000 for residential jobs: past it, the deal goes on paper with three required notices. A trim job that starts under and climbs above gets its contract within five days. Whole-floor crown or long wainscoting can get there.
Will you take a small job, like one room of baseboard?
Yes. People hunting for a finish carpenter here keep running into the same wall: one small room needs baseboard and maybe the casing redone, and nobody calls back about a job that size. We take it, at the minimum visit charge listed on our pricing page .
Got a loose towel bar or a rubbing door too? Add it to the same visit through the small jobs list.
Can you match the trim my house already has?
Newer houses mostly use stock profiles that local lumber yards still carry, so a patch usually blends in. Older or odd profiles can need a short custom run from a millwork shop .
You can check before anyone drives out with two photos. One is the end of a baseboard or a piece of casing seen straight on, with a tape measure laid across it. The other shows the full height of the baseboard from floor to top edge. That's usually enough to find a match .
Can you replace original trim in a house from before 1978?
Lots of ranches and split-levels around Cedar Mill, Cedar Hills and Beaverton's older neighborhoods went up pre-1978, and owners there ask us this regularly. Original casing and baseboard in those houses often hides lead paint beneath later layers. Oregon's RRP rule says renovation in pre-1978 housing takes a trained, certified firm working to lead-safe practices.
Cedar Mill Property Repair isn't set up for jobs where lead-based paint gets broken up. Prying off, sanding or cutting decades-old painted casing in such a house should go to a certified lead-safe renovator; our what we don't do list says why. What may still be possible there is new trim where none existed or trim on fresh drywall . Bethany is mostly newer construction, so there it rarely matters.
MDF, pine or solid wood: what lasts in a damp Oregon home?
MDF is cheap and paints nicely, but once it soaks up water it swells and stays swollen. By entry doors where rain gets tracked in all winter, and around tubs, toilets and dishwashers, primed finger-jointed pine or PVC is the safer pick . For stained wood, Douglas fir or hemlock fits older houses .
Wood moves between the wet months and the dry heating season. Letting the boards sit in the house for a while before they go up helps keep the joints closed . If your baseboard swelled after a leak, the leak gets fixed first, then the section comes out; soft drywall behind it is a job for drywall repair.
Does trim, wainscoting or a mantel need a permit?
Almost never. On the state BCD's roster of permit-exempt home projects you'll find finish work for walls, floors and ceilings, which is where trim and wainscoting belong. Portland publishes a matching roster, with one caveat: exempt work still has to meet code.
A mantel is a bit different because of the fireplace. The residential code sets how close a wood mantel can sit to the opening, and we keep it at that distance; for a gas insert or a stove we go by the maker's clearance chart . Gas lines are never part of our job.
Is painting included, or do I hire a painter after?
New trim usually comes primed. Nail holes and joints still need filling and caulking before the topcoat . Painting the trim is its own line: by the same Portland-area estimate, trim, door and baseboard painting runs $400-$2,000 for labour, typically about $900 .
The old trim and offcuts from our own work leave with us . We don't do hauling or junk removal beyond that.