Install Interior Door Frame Before Or After Flooring

How to trim door frames when intalling ceramic tile.

Install interior door frame before or after flooring. Baseboard goes down then the 2nd coat of paint goes on. Repair or alter the door frame in any way now is the perfect time to do so. I enjoyed john spier s article on installing pre hung doors what about when the floors will be carpeted. This is for timing.

After floors this would be a huge pain to do since you would need to pull the door out and saw the jamb. Generally speaking door frames are installed and the doors are hung during the trim and finish phase before the flooring is installed but after the painting. Then the flooring installers come in and do their thing. John spier owner of spier construction a building and remodeling company on block island r i responds.

Once again take care not to damage the frame or the wall during this step in the. Any changes to the door frame should be made before installing the new door. On a professional job all the doors are hung first then cased. Interior doors are a great way to update and accent your decor without too much commitment or expense.

The floor coverers will pop the hinge pins and set the doors aside while installing th. We built our own house a couple of years ago and we installed our hardwood and tile floors before installing the door frames and cabinets. 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. Much easier to install the flooring no trimming of the doors needed no fitting around cabinets etc.

I love my doors which were installed today but since the floors were installed first i now have a gap or two where the new frame doesn t cover the flooring. Laying ceramic tile may raise the level of your existing flooring which means your door jambs may be too low for the tile to fit under. Spruce wrote i d vote for doors first it will make installation of the door easier by not having to worry about floor clearances once installed when you re doing the floor you then cut the jamb legs so that they just clear the flooring and any padding glue etc. In my article hanging pre hung interior doors jul 16 i discussed the process i ve developed for installing interior doors in a fast and efficient manner.

Got laminate floors installed in july and then decided i wanted new interior doors. Also maybe others are more careful but i found it s hard not to ding the floor a little bit when doing doors afterwards.