New Carpet Now Door Won T Close

They won t want to give you a quote over the phone since they won t know how hard it will be to remove the doors and what tools they will need to shorten your doors.

New carpet now door won t close. When i attempt to close the door now the door hits the stop on the hinge side before it s completely closed making it impossible to close the door. How to fix a dragging door corner. The door just has to clear the carpet for smooth operation. This could be because the hinges are chopped in too deeply causing the edge of the door and the frame to bind against each other when shutting the door.

Out of level and a lot of the molding is not down to the floor. I ve just had new carpet fitted with thick underlay but as soon as fittter had left and i went to close sitting room door i realised carpet is too high and the door had to be forced hard to close. You should be able to see how high the carpet is on the door. Since the doors are painted go get some cheap lumber strips to add to the bottom.

An issue with this now is that some of the doors don t close without rubbing scraping the carpet. Houses settle over time which often causes a door to sag inside its frame. And we had to replace the carpet pad but not the carpet. A dragging corner makes a door difficult to open and close.

The new carpet. Matthews straight away and they said i ll have to get the door shaved i am reluctant to do this as it s a really old door. I replaced the 3 5 hinges on an interior door with hinges of the same size. Mark that plus a few mm for clearance.

The dragging door corner. The best ways to shorten a door after laying carpet. The doors are likely 1 3 4 thick but measure just to be sure. Also check there s no carpet getting ruffled up and stuck between the door and the frame when it s closing.

So you ll likely need 1 3 4 x 36 x perhaps 1 2 high. I had 11 doors replaced and he didn t use a level and one door that is the worst is about 1 1 2 in. The only difference that i can see between the old and new hinges is that the barrels on the old set are slightly larger. I just had carpet installed in a bedroom that wasn t previously carpeted but now there s a problem.

When doors are installed to fit hardwood tile linoleum or any other flat floor covering clearance height from the bottom may be 1 2 inch or. The bedroom door doesn t close properly because obviously the carpet is quite a bit higher up.