02 26 2009 8 59 am 12.
Cutting solid core door.
Depends on how they might have been used in the manufacturing.
Hey guys i wanted to replace my bedroom door with a new 6 panel solid core door but keep the existing frame.
Yeah having the staples inside of that is not unusual.
They go across the bottom.
Some solid core doors intended to look like painted wood use no surface veneer at all they are solid slabs of mdf or another engineered wood shaped and molded to give.
You will need to clean off the skins but the piece should fit back in well.
This helps to guide the knife and then if the knife slips it only scars the waste side of the cut.
I ve cut down plenty of hc doors gluing a 5 4 pine rail in the bottom for support.
Anyone ever try cutting an anderson storm door the solid aluminum doors not the wood core emco doors.
For pricing and availability.
But cutting down a solid core door is different and i can t recall ever cutting one down.
Construction makes them resistant to expansion and contraction due to humidity changes.
Unfortunately it s 80 inches tall and it needs to be cut down to 78 inches.
Deep with a utility knife.
And it s totally ruined a saw blade.
We like to clamp a metal straightedge to the door on top of the masking tape along the cutting line.
For pricing and availability.
We were cutting that off or a portion of it.
You don t need to score the underside of the door.
Eightdoors white primed 5 panel equal solid core wood slab door.
The doors to be cut down are spec d as 6 panel molded solid core.
If one is cutting down a solid core door clean out the core material as david described then use the cutoff piece to reblock the door.
6 inches of it.
Solid core doors offer good fire resistance when they are at least 1 3 4 inches thick.
Do you have any suggestions as how to cut off a solid core door.
Custom sizes door prices are ridiculous and the wood core doors that are designed to be cut don t last very long on the coast.
Next score the cutting lines 1 16 in.
Reliabilt 36 in x 80 in clear 6 panel solid core wood slab door.
I was thinking about taking 2 inches off the top or bottom but i m not sure if cutting it would be the same as cutting a hollow door.