Install Door Casing Before Carpet

Install the carpet install the carpet all the way against the wall.

Install door casing before carpet. If you re in one of these situations follow these instructions to install the trim after the carpet. Door window maintenance. Part of the series. What i am looking to do is shim up the jamb to the desired height so that i will have 1 2 after carpet is installed and won t have to cut the doors.

In some cases this will not be possible since. Are you talking about hanging the doors on the jamb or actually setting the entire prehung and then running casing and base. Installing trim before the carpet is a good idea for a couple of important reasons. I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet.

How to install trim before the carpet. At this point the only other difference with installing a pre hung door for a room that will be carpeted is that i keep the shims and the nails close to the floor on both sides. Keeping the shims and the fasteners low helps to prevent the carpet installers from moving the jambs out of position when they come along with their knee kickers. A really thick shag carpet can make it difficult to judge how high to place the trim.

Or you may be replacing the baseboards but leaving the carpet.