Cutting Doors For Carpet

Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on the carpet.

Cutting doors for carpet.

The best way to cut off a door bottom. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance. In other words cut off a little try it and cut off a little more if necessary. Use a tape measure to determine the distance from the finished.

Tap the pin with a hammer from the bottom to raise it up high enough to grasp it at the top with. 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. Place the tip of a nail vertically on the bottom of the hinge cylinder to begin removing the door. Panlid feb 12 2005 31.

Place the door on the sawhorses and wrap the bottom with masking tape. If you ve just installed carpeting your doors will probably rub and bind which means that you have to trim off the bottoms. Carpet fitters normally take doors off if it wont fit anyway so its errelevent really. 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. If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no. Here s the method of door cutting that works best for us. 2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door.

For that reason i cut both jambs to a length that keeps them roughly 3 8 inch off the subfloor. I scribed a line at two different. If carpet is not down maybe. After cutting the jambs to length i set the hinge jamb on a 3 8 inch thick shingle butt.

I also make sure that there will be plenty of space to keep the bottom of the door clear of the carpet. 1 identify the height that you would like to cut back the door. Trimming a wood door with a circular saw without splintering the wood or damaging the finish is a challenge. Quick plane and some new screws on.

But with carpet that discrepancy is hardly noticeable.