Cutting Doors For Carpet
The tape helps to avoid splintering when cutting the door.
Cutting doors for carpet. The best way to cut off a door bottom. Place the tip of a nail vertically on the bottom of the hinge cylinder to begin removing the door. Carpet fitters normally take doors off if it wont fit anyway so its errelevent really. If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no.
If carpet is not down maybe. But with carpet that discrepancy is hardly noticeable. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance. I used a cedar shake shim that is very thin at the one end and placed that end against the door.
If you ve just installed carpeting your doors will probably rub and bind which means that you have to trim off the bottoms. I scribed a line at two different. For that reason i cut both jambs to a length that keeps them roughly 3 8 inch off the subfloor. Place the door on the sawhorses and wrap the bottom with masking tape.
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. After cutting the jambs to length i set the hinge jamb on a 3 8 inch thick shingle butt.
Trimming a wood door with a circular saw without splintering the wood or damaging the finish is a challenge. 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. I also make sure that there will be plenty of space to keep the bottom of the door clear of the carpet. Tap the pin with a hammer from the bottom to raise it up high enough to grasp it at the top with.
Quick plane and some new screws on. With the carpet down. Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on the carpet. Panlid feb 12 2005 31.
2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door.