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Originally Posted by John Mayes
It’s because they used luxury vinyl flooring instead of ceramic tile. LVF acts like a floating floor and the shoe mold is used to cover the necessary gap required to allow for expansion and contraction.
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In looking at the designer and premier houses on The Villages website, some of them have shoe molding and some do not. It's hard to tell which wood colored floors are floating floors, but some have shoe molding and some do not. And, some of the houses with ceramic tile floors do have shoe molding. You can install a floating floor without using shoe molding, especially in a new house, but you need to install the flooring before you install the baseboard.