On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:29:22 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 5:00:44 PM UTC-5, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:04:57 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 2:00:25 PM UTC-6, DerbyDad03 wrote:

BTW...the carpet installers said "We rarely install carpet this thick. This
is nice stuff!" My feet are smiling. ;-)

Sh!t. Add "Trim all doors" to the list. Carpet's too thick for the
doors to fit.

I had to cut down a dozen or so doors at my parents after they installed new carpet. Having a Festool track saw makes that job much easier. Hardest part was getting the bi fold closet doors back on correctly.
They ARE a bugger, arn't they? The solid panel type are not TOO bad,
but the louvered ones????? YEW!!!

Mine aren't solid. I hope I have enough bottom rail...I should. I don't recall
if I shortened them the last time we had carpet installed.
I had to cut off top AND bottom when I tiled the foyer.

I once had to shorten a hollow core door so much that I needed to glue in a
new bottom rail. My son lived in a basement "apartment" at a friend's house.
(It was really just a bedroom but he had his own bathroom.) The staircase came
down the center of the house to a landing. Turn left, down a step (2 risers)
and you went into the laundry area, turn right, down a step (2 risers) and
you went into my son's room. He had no door when he moved in, so we bought a
$25 door at a salvage store, cut it down and hung it over the step. (I forget
the reason, but we couldn't hang it on the landing) We actually hung it upside
down so that the door knob was a bit closer to normal height when the user
was on the landing since the bottom of the door was a full step down.

Anyway, we had to cut so much off that we needed to insert a new bottom rail
into what used to be the top of the door.

Been there, done that

So, we measure the height from the step to the ceiling, cut/fix the door,
build a frame and hang the door. We try to open it and it hits the ceiling
when it's about 2/3's open. Who knew that a "dropped ceiling" meant that it
dropped about an inch over the width of a door. We had to take the door off,
back up the stairs and cut about 2" off of the top to get it to open fully.
Then we had to add a strip to the top of the frame to hide the gap.

It was a funny looking door, but my son's girlfriend liked it a lot better
than the curtain that was there before. ;-) That was all that separated them
from the rest the housemates when they used to laundry.