Interior Door Carpet Clearance

2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door.

Interior door carpet clearance.

Discussion in carpenters talk started by jam25 jul 10 2019. No products in the cart. Our existing floors are mainly tile but the doors swing easily over the bedroom carpet. However yesterday when my client arrived home he immediately called me to ask why i cut so much off the door bottoms.

To fix the issue the doors need to be removed bottom of the jambs cut and reset the door. Carpet clearance under the door. Standard clearance for interior doors. Thousands of discount exterior and cheap interior doors in stock.

If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no. Save 30 70 at houston s door clearance center. Should have known before selecting carpets i know. We have recently fitted a deep pile carpet with a thick underlay in the room and now the doors wont open.

All the doors were dragging excessively on the newly carpeted floors. Door comes with a 7 8 undercut bottom of door to bottom of jamb 8 lb pad good quality frieze carpet 1 2 desired between door and carpet how high are you guys shimming up your door. Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on the carpet. Cheaper pre hung doors give about 1 1 25 clearance and this is because the rise of thinner floor systems for the mass consumer market.

In that case you can control how much you cut off. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance. My client had a very plush carpet installed on top of the thickest pad the carpet distributor had to offer. I have never seen a door set with that big of a gap unless it was to get past floors that were not level.

Higher quality pre hung doors are usually manufactured with 1 5 clearance under the door as described above assuming the flooring will be premium as well in the 3 4 range. And yes in that case 1 4 would be the minimum amount you want the door to be above the carpet. Interior door clearance to floor. That is a lot of room for unlevel you have there.

Normally i cut the door bottom to leave about 1 of clearence and have never had anyone complain. When doors are installed to fit hardwood tile linoleum or any other flat floor covering clearance height from the bottom may be 1 2 inch or. We are moving soon and are also replacing. If during a remodel carpet is being installed over the top of a preexisting wood floor doors need to be cut shorter.

Main setting prehung doors clearance for carpet. The best ways to shorten a door after laying carpet.