Planing a door

[The Medway Handyman]

As Dom said, its self making. As long as the bottom board is wider than the base of your CS.

Did you get the Aldi link Sam?

[dennis]

If the door is like that a Stanley knife is the best way to trim it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

That is my experience with cheap doors, though perhaps they had ALREADY been trimmed.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I thought that was only for toilet seats ;-)

[Paul Matthews]

I think that's the beauty - it is simple, and without knocking one up I can see it works.

P.

[John Stumbles]

I'd be a bit leery about that: the circular saws I found in B&Q when I was last looking (3 or 4 years back I admit) were heavy 7" blade (185mm) monsters I'd probably be glad of if I were cutting up flooring chipboard but a bit of a liability for fine work. I used to have a nice 6" (150mm) Elu main-powered circ but that had packed up. If the OP can find a lightweight smaller-bladed saw (I think they tend to be described as trimsaws) then go for it, otherwise a half decent handsaw followed by a sand down (a small belt sander would be nice, and has other uses) would do a good job and not take long through softwood ticky-tacky doors.

[Geo]

I thought no-one was going to suggest that - seems the easier option to me - but then having /bought/ a planer...

Geo

[Samantha Booth]

You lost me there what is rising but hinges??

[Andy Hall]

It's butt hinges.

The two parta of the hinge have a sloping arrangement between them. As the door is opened it rises as it leaves the aperture of the frame.

[Rod]

A type of hinge that makes the door rise up a little as you open it.

One problem with them is that the door automatically closes itself.

[George]

The moment you open the door it starts rising on the hinges ie the bottom of the door starts rising over the carpet for clearance.

[The Medway Handyman]

get clockwise closing (left hand closing) or anti clockwise (right hand) If you open the instructions pdf in the link it explains this.

[Samantha Booth]

> You get clockwise closing (left hand closing) or anti clockwise (right

Do you know how much it rises by?

[Rod]

> You get clockwise closing (left hand closing) or anti clockwise (right

Please rephrase that. :-)

[Samantha Booth]

>> You get clockwise closing (left hand closing) or anti clockwise (right

LOL, Yeah ! the ACTUAL size please, not what you "think" it rises by. You men ! LOL

[Bruce]

"Not suitable for the intended purpose". Open and shut case.

Next ...!

[Rod]

>>> You get clockwise closing (left hand closing) or anti clockwise (right

Depends on the hinge. On the Screwfix one, the hinge is 75mm and the distance between the top and bottom of the spiral looks to be less than

25mm but more than 10mm - I'd guess around 20mm. So, at 180 degree open (or as near as possible) the rise would be around 10mm. At 90 degrees it would be half that. (Wish the spec. said what rise.)

I do not recommend them. Main reason is that the door does not rise much until it is fairly wide open. So you tend to get an area of carpet near the door frame which is swept by the door each time it is opened. (Of course, if it did rise the moment it started to open, you would need a signficant gap between the top of the door and the door frame to allow for it.)

[Andy Hall]

He confuses inches and millimetres as it is....

[Dave]

If the rise is for the room that has the carpet, them this is not your answer. The rise will not meet the maximum until the door is at 90 degrees from the wall. At closure, the door will be at its lowest point and will not rise until it is at 90 % to the wall.

Dave

[George]

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>>>> You get clockwise closing (left hand closing) or anti clockwise (right

You're doing a lot of guess work there,where does it say its 75mm? have you ever used em?