On Dec 19, 12:50*pm, "cshenk" wrote:
"hibb" wrote

My trouble is that at the bottom of the door the door jamb will be
just even with the drywall but the top of the jamb is even with the
wall frame. The only thing I can figure is that I need to take a long
piece of 1/2 x 1/2 and cut it into a long wedge and install it on the
door jamb to make the whole thing about even with the drywall.

Here you seem to have a side to side fit issue.

about a half inch farther into the room at the top of the
door than at the bottom.

And here it seems to have 'front to back' issues.

I've only installed the door with a few nails and left them so I can
easily pull them back out if I need too. And I haven't installed the
drywall on that wall yet so, if it is what I should do, I could remove
the door and plumb the wall before I continue with the drywalling.

Thats good.

As OP said, this is a plumb-bob string test classic. *Relax, this one is
easy.

Get a nice long bit of string or yarn. *Longer than the door. *Tie a weight
to the bottom (a couple of bolts, or some metal washers, anything that won't
be to heavy for you to tape the string up and hold, yet heavy enough to hold
the string straight. *I prefer a bright contrasting yarn as it's easier to
see against the door jam etc.

Next you want some duct tape or masking tape and a piece of chalk. *If your
wife sews, she'll have 'pattern markers' for cloth. *Perfect for the job.

Suspend string from at least 3 spots along the top of the jam and mark the
floor where they hit. *Draw a line across that using a yardstick. *If the
door frame is set partway into the room at the top, it will be real obvious
as the line will fall inside the room. *It may even be unevenly inside the
room. *This can cause issues with opening the door (angled a bit, may drag
floor, normal fix is trim bottom of door carefully with a hand lathe). *As
to the side to side issue, the string hung at the very corners will show
this. *If you have to inch it in at the top to get it to hit dead on at the
bottom, shim the top til plumb.

Grin, one of those jobs actually easier with a bit of string than a level!

Thanks for helping.

I did the string test on the door and the top of the door does lean
slightly in but correcting that only makes the problem of trimming
around the door worse.

I did the string test on the wall on each side of the door where the
trim would attach and the weight on the end of the string hits the
floor about an inch away from the wall on both sides. And it is about
the same all the way to the corners of the room.

Looks like I need to plum that wall and then make adjustments to the
door installation.

David