Replace Doors Or Floors First

Now install the new flooring but keep it about a inch from the first filler strip.

Replace doors or floors first. Finally install the cabinets on both strips and attach the toekicks. After floors are in fenish with quarter round shoe molding. Apparently so i learned this today the hard way. I d vote for doors first it will make installation of the door easier by not having to worry about floor clearances.

Trim after dry wall. Theres one good reason to install the doors first and that is if your floor is not level across the threshold almost always off by some factor in my house. This is for timing. By having all the doors and trim up first the painters can come in and spray everything out and get the first coat of color on the walls.

Then the flooring installers come in and do their thing. Before the floors go in you can easily shim one end of the jamb to get the door exactly plumb. The flooring will be able to expand and contract beneath the toekick without revealing a gap. Walls are put up first then the floor covering comes later.

Baseboard goes down then the 2nd coat of paint goes on. Once installed when you re doing the floor you then cut the jamb legs so that they just clear the flooring and any padding glue etc. Then you should paint all trim and doors first the floors go in last. Got laminate floors installed in july and then decided i wanted new interior doors.

Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall. Typically cabinets come before flooring. Floor covering or finish flooring is the surface that you see and walk on not the subfloor under the underlayment or underlayment between subfloor and finished layer. I love my doors which were installed today but since the floors were installed first i now have a gap or two where the new frame doesn t cover the flooring.

Most builders leave the floors for last. When you run a floor sander around a room there is the possibility of scuffing up newly painted walls. There s a high probability that your new flooring won t exactly match the height of your old flooring and. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.

Work on your floors first if your gutted room has baseboards that are still in place.