Door Jamb Or Floor First

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Door jamb or floor first. At this point the only other difference with installing a pre hung door for a room that will be carpeted is that i keep the shims and the nails close to the floor on both sides. Hold the door against the jamb to check for clearance. Theres one good reason to install the doors first and that is if your floor is not level across the threshold almost always off by some factor in my house. Check how the leg meets the floor if the floor is out of level you may need to trim the bottom of the leg to.

Before the floors go in you can easily shim one end of the jamb to get the door exactly plumb. Look for the gap between the door and jamb to be one eighth of an inch 32 cm on all sides. This is the horizontal component that sits on the floor below the door. If the door frame is done first then does the tile installer just cut tile so that it fits snuggly against the bottom of the door frame or for a more seemless look does he rough cut and install it so that it 39 s just beneath the door frame and is there just a bit of a gap between the concrete floor and the door frame.

When i m satisfied with the height of the strike jamb i insert shims behind the jamb and nail it off adjusting the jamb until it aligns perfectly with the door stop. You can hold the jamb in place by lightly hammering in a few nails. The door needs to fit comfortably inside the jamb. The jambs also called the door legs are the interior sides of a door frame specifically the parts of the frame that hold the mounting hinges on one side and the strike plate for the latch on the other.

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Add or remove shimming so the door fits. Either way to trim a door you need to bridge the gap between the door jamb the frame from on which the door is hinged and where the latch engages and the wall. After floors this would be a huge pain to do since you would need to pull the door out and. Hold a casing leg in place with its edge on your pencil marks.