Installing Door Casing Before Carpet

I ve seen people reccomend both ways.

Installing door casing before carpet.

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. How to install trim before the carpet. 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. Install trim before the.

In some cases this will not be possible since. 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. Installing trim before the carpet is a good idea for a couple of important reasons. 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.

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. 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. If i m installing the hardwood i d like to go first and the trim guy can scribe his jambs. You don t need to.

Install the carpet install the carpet all the way against the wall. Part of the series. A really thick shag carpet can make it difficult to judge how high to place the trim. Door window maintenance.

I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet. 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. Or you may be replacing the baseboards but leaving the carpet. But for me as a diyer it was easier to do the base after the carpet and that way no gaps.