Install Door Casing Before Carpet

A really thick shag carpet can make it difficult to judge how high to place the trim.

Install door casing before carpet.

Install trim before the. I set the prehung unit and then remove the door until after carpet. When installing baseboard before carpet the easiest thing to do is to install it even with the bottom edge of the drywall as previously described. If you re in one of these situations follow these instructions to install the trim after the carpet.

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. In some cases this will not be possible since. 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.

You don t need to. Install the carpet install the carpet all the way against the wall. Door window maintenance. Or you may be replacing the baseboards but leaving the carpet.

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.