Bottom Door Clearance For Carpet

Adjust the gap around the door and let the other side jam fall where it may.

Bottom door clearance for carpet.

When doors are installed to fit hardwood tile linoleum or any other flat floor covering clearance height from the bottom may be 1 2 inch or. 2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door. That ll be about an inch with decent carpet and underlay. If you need more room for carpet under door trim the door.

You may have to shorten a jam or two to do this. Sounds like a bit of deliberate misinterpretation. The standard i use is 1 2 over finish floors 3 4 is acceptable. Cut off bottom of doors as needed.

If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no. The only criteria is that the door shouldn t scrape the floor when moving. Exterior doors usually contact a threshold of some material. It should be high enough to allow for expansion swelling of some small degree if it s wood.

I have never seen a door set with that big of a gap unless it was to get past floors that were not level. Some are wood some have a vinyl flexible insert that seals against the bottom of the door to keep out drafts. If equal height of doors is not critical set the hinge side of doors 1 2 off floor to tuck in carpet. That is a lot of room for unlevel you have there.

To fix the issue the doors need to be removed bottom of the jambs cut and reset the door. Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on the carpet. Granted that s what he wrote but he clearly meant the clearance between the floor and the door to allow for the carpet and underlay.