Cutting Doors For Carpet

1 identify the height that you would like to cut back the door.

Cutting doors for carpet.

Place the door on the sawhorses and wrap the bottom with masking tape. Quick plane and some new screws on. In other words cut off a little try it and cut off a little more if necessary. Here s the method of door cutting that works best for us.

Ive no doubt it does the job but i bet it looks its different for skirting as jointer is on flat solid floor so you will get a flat uniform cut but on doors with carpet down. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance. If you ve just installed carpeting your doors will probably rub and bind which means that you have to trim off the bottoms. 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.

After cutting the jambs to length i set the hinge jamb on a 3 8 inch thick shingle butt. For that reason i cut both jambs to a length that keeps them roughly 3 8 inch off the subfloor. But with carpet that discrepancy is hardly noticeable. Tap the pin with a hammer from the bottom to raise it up high enough to grasp it at the top with.

2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door. The best way to cut off a door bottom. With the carpet down. I used a cedar shake shim that is very thin at the one end and placed that end against the door.

Carpet fitters normally take doors off if it wont fit anyway so its errelevent really. Place the tip of a nail vertically on the bottom of the hinge cylinder to begin removing the door. Use a tape measure to determine the distance from the finished. I scribed a line at two different.

Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on the carpet. I also make sure that there will be plenty of space to keep the bottom of the door clear of the carpet. Ide t someone if the attacked my doors like that. Panlid feb 12 2005 31.

If carpet is not down maybe.