Bottom Door Clearance For Carpet

You may have to shorten a jam or two to do this.

Bottom door clearance for carpet.

I have never seen a door set with that big of a gap unless it was to get past floors that were not level. The only criteria is that the door shouldn t scrape the floor when moving. Adjust the gap around the door and let the other side jam fall where it may. Sounds like a bit of deliberate misinterpretation.

Cut off bottom of doors as needed. That ll be about an inch with decent carpet and underlay. If equal height of doors is not critical set the hinge side of doors 1 2 off floor to tuck in carpet. The best ways to shorten a door after laying carpet.

If you need more room for carpet under door trim the door. The standard i use is 1 2 over finish floors 3 4 is acceptable. Exterior doors usually contact a threshold of some material. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance.

To fix the issue the doors need to be removed bottom of the jambs cut and reset the door. Do you really want an inch between the bottom of the door and carpet. 2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door. 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.

It should be high enough to allow for expansion swelling of some small degree if it s wood. Granted that s what he wrote but he clearly meant the clearance between the floor and the door to allow for the carpet and underlay. Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on the carpet.