Bottom Door Clearance For Carpet

The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance.

Bottom door clearance for carpet.

Do you really want an inch between the bottom of the door and carpet. 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. The best ways to shorten a door after laying carpet.

To fix the issue the doors need to be removed bottom of the jambs cut and reset the door. Cut off bottom of doors as needed. That is a lot of room for unlevel you have there. Sounds like a bit of deliberate misinterpretation.

Exterior doors usually contact a threshold of some material. Adjust the gap around the door and let the other side jam fall where it may. If you need more room for carpet under door trim the door. If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no.

2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door. If equal height of doors is not critical set the hinge side of doors 1 2 off floor to tuck in 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. 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.

That ll be about an inch with decent carpet and underlay. The standard i use is 1 2 over finish floors 3 4 is acceptable. You may have to shorten a jam or two to do this.