On 24/03/2016 19:51, Rod Speed wrote:
David Lang wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Rod Speed wrote

You need a circular saw and a sawboard

Nowhere near as good IMO.

I've trimmed around 15 doors this year. Trust me,

No thanks.

it's quicker & more accurate.

But not as good for the OP who isnt likely to be able to work
out just how much should be removed. Much safer to do it
more gradually with an electric plane for someone like that.

Have you ever used a sawboard?

Yep, use one all the time with a circular saw,
essentially because I don’t have a table saw.

And that is irrelevant to the point I was making about what is
best for someone like the OP who has never done a door before.

Something else you've never used, obviously.

There you go, face down in the mud, as always.

Even with the work horizontal and on a workbench, it's not easy to
make a perfect job with a power plane.

You don't need a perfect job with the bottom of a ****ing door, ****wit.

You do if you are charging a customer for it.

No you don’t. No customer will even notice if the bottom
of the door isnt perfectly square with the face of the door
and the OP isnt charging any customer for it anyway.

Indeed, a hand plane is easier to use for the unskilled.

Bull**** for someone who has never used one before.

Something as large as a door is going to be even more difficult.

Nope, just have the door on one of the long edges and the bottom
vertical. Do it half at a time and turn the door over so its on the
other
long side when you have done half the bottom and do the other half.

Ha ha ha ha!

Wota stunning line in rational argument you have there.

It's all your feeble argument deserves.

Why not just for once take the word of those who have actually done
the job?

Because I have done the ****ing job a lot more often
than you ever have and done it fine with an electric plane and have
enough of a clue to be able to realise
that someone like the OP isnt going to be able to work out how much
to take off with a circular saw and is much safer doing it a bit at a
time until the door works fine, with an electric planer.

But you haven't done the job as often as I have.

Irrelevant to what is a lot safer for someone
who has never done a door before like the OP.

So, in your rant above you claim "Because I have done the ****ing job a
lot more often than you ever have." But when you come across someone
who has trimmed more doors than you could count its irrelevant?

You're suggesting take a bit off, re hang door,

And mostly find that it now is fine even
if it’s the first one the OP has ever done.

take a bit off, re hang door, take a bit off, re hang door. It would
take all day.

It didn’t for anyone who has done it that way.

Getting the right amount off is dead simple.

Not for someone who has never done a door before.

Which you clearly haven't.

Position door next to frame resting on a couple of spacers (pencils
work fine). Measure distance between hinge rebate and hinge. Remove
that amount from bottom. Perfect job.

Not if you want less gap than a pencil under the door.

Halfwit. The weight of the door pushes the pencils into the carpet
slightly and gives a perfect result.

And the OP wouldn’t even think of doing it like that.

And the FAQ doesn’t even spell that out either.

And for the OP, there is a lot more work involved
in making a sawboard that he obviously doesn’t
have than just using an electric plane on the one
door he wants to do.

You can make a sawboard from scrap timber in 10 minutes, halfwit.

Doesn't matter how quick it is for him.




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Dave - The Medway Handyman