Cutting Doors For Carpet

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Cutting doors for carpet.

The best way to cut off a door bottom. I used a cedar shake shim that is very thin at the one end and placed that end against the door. Ide t someone if the attacked my doors like that. Trimming a wood door with a circular saw without splintering the wood or damaging the finish is a challenge.

Use a tape measure to determine the distance from the finished. Place the tip of a nail vertically on the bottom of the hinge cylinder to begin removing the door. 2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door. After cutting the jambs to length i set the hinge jamb on a 3 8 inch thick shingle butt.

In other words cut off a little try it and cut off a little more if necessary. Carpet fitters normally take doors off if it wont fit anyway so its errelevent really. Panlid feb 12 2005 31. But with carpet that discrepancy is hardly noticeable.

If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no. With the carpet down. Place the door on the sawhorses and wrap the bottom with masking tape. I also make sure that there will be plenty of space to keep the bottom of the door clear of the carpet.

The only place it may happen is on the lock end but if you slow the cut down as it is about to appear your ok. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance. 1 identify the height that you would like to cut back the door. Tap the pin with a hammer from the bottom to raise it up high enough to grasp it at the top with.

The tape helps to avoid splintering when cutting the door. For that reason i cut both jambs to a length that keeps them roughly 3 8 inch off the subfloor. Here s the method of door cutting that works best for us. If you ve just installed carpeting your doors will probably rub and bind which means that you have to trim off the bottoms.

Quick plane and some new screws on.