Replace Doors Or Floors First

In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.

Replace doors or floors first.

Work on your floors first if your gutted room has baseboards that are still in place. Trim after dry wall. 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. There s a high probability that your new flooring won t exactly match the height of your old flooring and.

Floor covering or finish flooring is the surface that you see and walk on not the subfloor under the underlayment or underlayment between subfloor and finished layer. Theres one good reason to install the doors first and that is if your floor is not level across the threshold almost always off by some factor in my house. I d vote for doors first it will make installation of the door easier by not having to worry about floor clearances. Walls are put up first then the floor covering comes later.

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. Apparently so i learned this today the hard way. When you run a floor sander around a room there is the possibility of scuffing up newly painted walls. Got laminate floors installed in july and then decided i wanted new interior doors.

Before the floors go in you can easily shim one end of the jamb to get the door exactly plumb. This is for timing. Now install the new flooring but keep it about a inch from the first filler strip. Finally install the cabinets on both strips and attach the toekicks.

Then the flooring installers come in and do their thing. 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. In new construction homes where no flooring has been laid yet this is the way it works. That may be installed along with it.

Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall. On a professional job all the doors are hung first then cased. Baseboard goes down then the 2nd coat of paint goes on. Most builders leave the floors for last.

Then you should paint all trim and doors first the floors go in last.