Trim Bottom Of Door With Plane

Plane a door.

Trim bottom of door with plane.

The top of the door and the latch side of the door can easily be planed without taking the door off. This will only be the case if you have installed new flooring though so most of the time it is an easy fix. For such a task you need to remove the door hinge screws. To plane a bedroom door use a pencil to mark the areas that need to be planed on both the front and back of the door remove it from the frame and secure it on a stable surface.

However if you need to work on the bottom of the door you will need to take the door off of its hinges to access the bottom section. Remove door from the frame. Next adjust your plane to the correct angle so that it can take off very thin layers of wood gradually and evenly. The best way to do this is to start at the bottom hinge first.

Usually material needs to be removed from the bottom and maybe the door edge next to the handle. The bottom of our door was just barely scraping the tile and i determined that 1 8 of an inch should be removed. For a full length trim remove the hinges from the back and take wood from the back or hinged edge of the door this will allow you to avoid detaching latch hardware. If you have to trim less than 1 2 inch i suggest using a hand planer instead of a circular saw because you can adjust a planer s depth of cut to as little as 1 64 of an inch.

Then estimate how much of the door needs to be trimmed.