Prehung Door Before Or After Finished Floor

The clearance between the bottom of the door and the finish floor should be 3 8 inch or less.

Prehung door before or after finished floor.

This is for timing. On a professional job all the doors are hung first then cased. Set the hinge side of doors 1 2 off floor to tuck in carpet. Also maybe others are more careful but i found it s hard not to ding the floor a little bit when doing doors afterwards.

Wheni install prehung doors the jambs and door are crefully fitted to the final rough opening which includes the finished floor. I am gutting out the house and one project leads to another. 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.

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. It also assures that the doors on hand are correct and will work. But i also have to tile the floor. Best method for carpeted floors where minor variations won t show.

You should hang all doors and trim after dry wall. Check that the door will swing in the right direction after it s installed. After floors are in fenish with quarter round shoe molding. This clearance is set by trimming the ends of the hinge and latch jambs.

Before the floors go in you can easily shim one end of the jamb to get the door exactly plumb. You can rent a saw that is special made for cutting door casings to allow tyle to go under. Adjust the gap around the door and let the other side jam. So i need to buy new prehung interior doors.

Im only asking because if. 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. The floors go in last. I removed old wood walls and putt in new drywall and so now the door frame is off balance with the wall.

Then the flooring installers come in and do their thing. There will almost certainly be trimming involved for other floors on the jamb and possibly the door too. Door first means the trimwork can be more complete while the crew is set up onsite. Just be sure to allow for a threshold or thick carpeting before making these cuts.

I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet. Baseboard goes down then the 2nd coat of paint goes on.