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How to trim a 6 panel interior door.
Cover hinges with painter s tape if you want to keep them free of paint.
In today s video i show you how i trimmed and rehung our hollow core spare room door including re setting the hinges and refurbishing the door itself.
If the new door doesn t fit the old door can be used as a template to indicate where the new door slab should be trimmed.
Trimming the door may require reducing the door s width a job you can do yourself and therefore save the money it would take to hire a professional.
When marking your doors use a pencil and level to draw your lines.
Draw the bottom line 6 up from the bottom.
Draw lines 5 in from the top and two sides of your door.
I ve transformed both the interior garage door in my home and the one in my in laws home as shown here from plain doors to panel doors with the easy diy door makeover method i m sharing with you today.
Pine unfinished 6 panel solid wood interior door slab model 5223 0 111 00 111 00.
Finally leave 5 between the top and bottom panels.
They have two 8 by 10 inch panels at the top with four larger 10 by 24 inch.
To trim the panel measure and cut your trim molding to fit around the panel.
Some interior doors are heavy and challenging to remove but you can use this method to paint a panel door that remains on its hinges.
Updating a flat panel core door with some trim and bead board to give it a more updated look.
Link to the craftsman door trim project.
Next dry fit the new interior slab door in the opening using shims to hold it in place if needed.
Installing a door may seem like a straightforward process but if the door does not fit precisely into the door frame then a little extra work may be involved.
When you add moulding to a flat door you can choose if it looks like a 6 panel or some other style of door.
How to make a flat door look like a 6 panel with trim chris and i have painted a lot of six panel doors in our time we installed and painted 8 new doors at our first house and every door in our current house is a primed and unpainted six panel door in need of paint.