The word "baseboard" is an accepted and correct word in written English and can be used in both British and American English
Example: The workers used a sander to smooth the baseboards before they painted them.
Local temperature control can be much more precise with electric heating, because it is possible to install a thermostatically controlled rheostat to vary the energy output of relatively small sections of baseboard units or cable.
Radiant electric resistance heating systems use coils in baseboard units in the rooms, which create convection cycles similar to hot-water radiators, or resistance cables in continuous looped patterns embedded in plaster ceilings.
Each wall had a carefully painted baseboard to enable the robot to "see" where the wall met the floor (a simplification of reality that is typical of the microworld approach).
Older versions had folding bellows and a lens standard on an extendable baseboard or strut system.
The enlarger is a projection system on a vertical column mounted on a horizontal baseboard.
Raising or lowering the enlarger head on the column controls the image magnification; adjustment of the lens-to-negative distance focuses the image on the enlarging paper on the baseboard.
Dozens of plaques line the windowsills and baseboards, and framed memorabilia, with a special emphasis on F.D.R. and the Navy, cover most of the wood-panelled walls.
Running along the baseboards are braids of Christmas lights.
The baseboards and the bottoms of the doors are pulped.
Labels perch casually on wainscoting shelves in rooms of laconic Beaux-Arts design until the late arrival of a more modern look, with the wainscoting dropping to baseboards.
When Ms. Gray complained of bedbugs, her husband applied Ortho Home Defense Max to baseboards, walls and the area surrounding her bed, and Ortho Bug-B-Gon Max Lawn and Garden Insect Killer to her mattress and box spring, according to the federal report.
