Replace Doors Or Floors First

Apparently so i learned this today the hard way.

Replace doors or floors first.

Trim after dry wall. Baseboard goes down then the 2nd coat of paint goes on. In new construction homes where no flooring has been laid yet this is the way it works. On a professional job all the doors are hung first then cased.

There s a high probability that your new flooring won t exactly match the height of your old flooring and. 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. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. 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.

Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall. 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. The flooring will be able to expand and contract beneath the toekick without revealing a gap. Now install the new flooring but keep it about a inch from the first filler strip.

This is for timing. Typically cabinets come before flooring. Most builders leave the floors for last. That may be installed along with it.

When you run a floor sander around a room there is the possibility of scuffing up newly painted walls. Finally install the cabinets on both strips and attach the toekicks. Before the floors go in you can easily shim one end of the jamb to get the door exactly plumb. 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.

Then you should paint all trim and doors first the floors go in last. I d vote for doors first it will make installation of the door easier by not having to worry about floor clearances. Got laminate floors installed in july and then decided i wanted new interior doors. 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.

Walls are put up first then the floor covering comes later.