Prehung Door Before Or After Finished Floor

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Prehung door before or after finished floor.

You should hang all doors and trim after dry wall. So i need to buy new prehung interior doors. Most builders leave the floors for last. Then the flooring installers come in and do their thing.

Baseboard goes down then the 2nd coat of paint goes on. There will almost certainly be trimming involved for other floors on the jamb and possibly the door too. Best method for carpeted floors where minor variations won t show. This clearance is set by trimming the ends of the hinge and latch jambs.

Wheni install prehung doors the jambs and door are crefully fitted to the final rough opening which includes the finished floor. I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet. 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. After floors this would be a huge pain to do since you would need to pull the door out and saw the jamb.

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. On a professional job all the doors are hung first then cased. But i also have to tile the floor. I removed old wood walls and putt in new drywall and so now the door frame is off balance with the wall.

Just be sure to allow for a threshold or thick carpeting before making these cuts. This is for timing. Set the hinge side of doors 1 2 off floor to tuck in carpet. Then you should paint all trim and doors first then ceiling and walls.

It also assures that the doors on hand are correct and will work. The clearance between the bottom of the door and the finish floor should be 3 8 inch or less. I am gutting out the house and one project leads to another. Check that the door will swing in the right direction after it s installed.

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. Adjust the gap around the door and let the other side jam. After floors are in fenish with quarter round shoe molding. Door first means the trimwork can be more complete while the crew is set up onsite.

Also maybe others are more careful but i found it s hard not to ding the floor a little bit when doing doors afterwards. You can rent a saw that is special made for cutting door casings to allow tyle to go under.