Installing Door Casing Before Carpet

Keeping the shims and the fasteners low helps to prevent the carpet installers from moving the jambs out of position when they come along with their knee kickers.

Installing door casing before carpet.

Part of the series. A really thick shag carpet can make it difficult to judge how high to place the trim. When installing baseboard before carpet the easiest thing to do is to install it even with the bottom edge of the drywall as previously described. I ve seen people reccomend both ways.

Prepping the door for casing to sit flat and for the head joint to meet well the jamb and the face of the wall need to be in plane with each other. Install the carpet install the carpet all the way against the wall. But for me as a diyer it was easier to do the base after the carpet and that way no gaps. Are you talking about hanging the doors on the jamb or actually setting the entire prehung and then running casing and base.

Install trim before the. How to install trim before the carpet. Door window maintenance. You don t need to.

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. If i m installing the hardwood i d like to go first and the trim guy can scribe his jambs. Honestly its more work to scribe the jambs in my opinion you basically have to set the door twice the other consideration is do you want to install the hardwood without shoe moulding. Casing can be molded or flat and whether the casing legs and head meet at the top of the door in miter joints or butt joints depends partly on which you choose.

Or you may be replacing the baseboards but leaving the carpet. I did doors before carbet i m with ed 1 2 off the floor but i did all the finish trim after carpet set the base and door casings gently on the carpet don t push it tight. If you re in one of these situations follow these instructions to install the trim after the carpet. I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet.