Cutting Doors For Carpet

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Cutting doors for carpet.

If carpet is not down maybe. Use a tape measure to determine the distance from the finished. The tape helps to avoid splintering when cutting the door. The best way to cut off a door bottom.

Tap the pin with a hammer from the bottom to raise it up high enough to grasp it at the top with. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance. If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no. 2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door.

I used a cedar shake shim that is very thin at the one end and placed that end against the door. Trimming a wood door with a circular saw without splintering the wood or damaging the finish is a challenge. Ide t someone if the attacked my doors like that. Place the tip of a nail vertically on the bottom of the hinge cylinder to begin removing the door.

I also make sure that there will be plenty of space to keep the bottom of the door clear of the carpet. Carpet fitters normally take doors off if it wont fit anyway so its errelevent really. Panlid feb 12 2005 31. Here s the method of door cutting that works best for us.

Quick plane and some new screws on. With the carpet down. Place the door on the sawhorses and wrap the bottom with masking tape. Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on 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. In other words cut off a little try it and cut off a little more if necessary. 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. 1 identify the height that you would like to cut back the door.

But with carpet that discrepancy is hardly noticeable.