Cutting 15mm Off Each Side Of A Door

[thomp1983]

Hi all,

But of a cockup with a door lining, the opening has come out at 740mm for a 762mm door.

The door specs say the lipping is 10mm so I'm going to have to remove them on both sides and refit.

Is it as simple as cutting the door with a circular saw, retrieve the lippings from the offcut and regluing them back into the door?

Thanks
Chris.

 

[foxhole]

Hi all,

But of a cockup with a door lining, the opening has come out at 740mm for a 762mm door.

The door specs say the lipping is 10mm so I'm going to have to remove them on both sides and refit.

Is it as simple as cutting the door with a circular saw, retrieve the lippings from the offcut and regluing them back into the door?

Thanks
Chris.

Possibly, but lipping is often part of the internal door frame so will be weakened when just gluing back on and you will need to remove the 10mm each side from the internal frame thus weakening it, as long as you take this into account its possible.

 

[^woody^]

Yeah, it depends what door it is.

Can't you alter the lining?

 

[thomp1983]

Walls are being plastered tomorrow so taking the lining out isn't an option, I could possibly add to the lining and go to a narrower door.

 

[Charlie George]

Walls are being plastered tomorrow so taking the lining out isn't an option, I could possibly add to the lining and go to a narrower door.

726mm will be better than trying to cut down doors, probably only need to add 10mm to lining.

 

[^woody^]

Even after plastering, if it's possible to remove the lining, and remove packing and refit, that's a better option.

If it means re-cutting masonry, probably not - unless it's thermalite block that can be hand sawn easily.

 

[thomp1983]

It's in a 4x2 stud wall.

Spoke to plasterer this morning, he's going to leave that bit till tomorrow so I'll remove the lining shortly and route it down by 7mm each side.

That'll leave 25mm on the lining and give me an opening of 754mm, leaving 7mm each side to come off the door to give a 3mm gap which should be fine.

Thanks
Chris

 

[thomp1983]

So I spent a bit of time with the router on the hidden faces and I've got the opening to 754mm so now the door will fit the gap with a bit of work.

Thanks
Chris