Install Door Casing Before Carpet

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Install door casing before carpet.

A really thick shag carpet can make it difficult to judge how high to place the trim. I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet. Install trim before the. 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.

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. You don t need to. Or you may be replacing the baseboards but leaving the carpet. Install the carpet install the carpet all the way against the wall.

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

Are you talking about hanging the doors on the jamb or actually setting the entire prehung and then running casing and base.