Prehung Door Before Or After Finished Floor

It also assures that the doors on hand are correct and will work.

Prehung door before or after finished floor.

After floors are in fenish with quarter round shoe molding. I removed old wood walls and putt in new drywall and so now the door frame is off balance with the wall. I am gutting out the house and one project leads to another. Most builders leave the floors for last.

On a professional job all the doors are hung first then cased. But i also have to tile the floor. I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet. What i am looking to do is shim up the jamb to the desired height so that i will have 1 2 after carpet is installed and won t have to cut the doors.

You can rent a saw that is special made for cutting door casings to allow tyle to go under. Im only asking because if. This clearance is set by trimming the ends of the hinge and latch jambs. Adjust the gap around the door and let the other side jam.

Just be sure to allow for a threshold or thick carpeting before making these cuts. Also maybe others are more careful but i found it s hard not to ding the floor a little bit when doing doors afterwards. By having all the doors and trim up first the painters can come in and spray everything out and get the first coat of color on the walls. Set the hinge side of doors 1 2 off floor to tuck in carpet.

This is for timing. There will almost certainly be trimming involved for other floors on the jamb and possibly the door too. The floors go in last. Baseboard goes down then the 2nd coat of paint goes on.

Check that the door will swing in the right direction after it s installed. Then you should paint all trim and doors first then ceiling and walls. Which project goest first. Door first means the trimwork can be more complete while the crew is set up onsite.

Before the floors go in you can easily shim one end of the jamb to get the door exactly plumb. You should hang all doors and trim after dry wall. Wheni install prehung doors the jambs and door are crefully fitted to the final rough opening which includes the finished floor. The last thing i want is the flooring crew to undercut my jambs remove the doors from their hinges and risk dmaging them or adding an unexpected bump in the flooring which takes me coming back to pull the door.

Then the flooring installers come in and do their thing. The clearance between the bottom of the door and the finish floor should be 3 8 inch or less.