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Last week I hung 3 doors in a row that all came out perfect and I still can't believe it
I've been doing trim and door installs for years now and I swear every time I hang a prehung door something goes wrong. Usually I end up shimming for an hour trying to fix a gap I made by not checking the floor level first. But last Tuesday I had three solid core six panel doors to hang in a hallway and I took my time. I checked the floor with a level and actually marked where the high spots were before I even pulled the first door out of the box. Used a 2 foot level on the jambs and a 6 foot level on the face and somehow all three swung perfect with less than a 16th gap top and bottom. My helper said he's never seen me that quiet on a job site because I was just walking around checking them over and over. Has anyone else ever had a day where everything just lined up without fighting it?
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clairen851mo ago
Nailed three casings in a row once with zero caulk, still chasing that high.
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king.robin1mo ago
You checked the floor level before you even started and marked the high spots, which tells me you've been burned before. But what I'm really curious about is how you handled the shimming on the hinge side when you had to adjust for those floor discrepancies. Did you run into any issue with the jamb twisting when you pulled a shim tight on a high spot, or did you just plane the bottom of the hinge side to match the floor slope?
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