Door linings wastage

[akist]

I have been fixing door linings and my doors are about 2.3m tall, and the door linings timbers are 4.2m tall, so I have lots of leftover pieces of 1.9m!

Could I connect two smaller pieces to make a 2,3m length? Is that something a carpenter might do?

 

[PotatoSoup]

Hi Akist, I'm not a carpenter, just a DIYer, so I'm interested to see what any carpenters say to you. I have built stud walls and made door openings and hung doors etc and my feeling is that you could brace it enough so it would be structurally sound with enough screws and support from the timber behind the door lining but I'm wondering if and how you could get the join to look ok? Particularly as there would probably be some movement just from the opening and closing of the door so any paint might crack or show the join? I'm not sure though - never attempted it. Curious to see what answers you get and if you go for it I'd be interested to know how you get on? Would you be planning to fill the join with something?

 

[foxhole]

I have been fixing door linings and my doors are about 2.3m tall, and the door linings timbers are 4.2m tall, so I have lots of leftover pieces of 1.9m!

Could I connect two smaller pieces to make a 2,3m length? Is that something a carpenter might do?

Could you not get 2.4m lengths ( a readily available size) to save wastage.

 

[akist]

Would you be planning to fill the join with something?

I would bolt/clamp two pieces together, overlapping where they need to join by say 50mm, then I would cut both with a mitre saw at an angle, in two directions, the vertical and the depth. If I were using the chop saw I think the boards would be laid flat on the base, I would use a 30-45 degree angle in both mitre and "tilt" and then I'd make a cut. I'd glue the joint, no screws or nails. Setting it up would not be easy or possible as I do not have a work bench, my chop saw is on a large format tile ontop of an old garden table.

Could you not get 2.4m lengths ( a readily available size) to save wastage.

Travis Perkins said "only 4.2m lengths" and stupidly I did not check...

 

[^woody^]

With a suitable joint, two pieces of timber can be joined together.

The question is not whether you could, but whether you can.