Cutting Solid Core Door
Next score the cutting lines 1 16 in.
Cutting solid core door. The doors to be cut down are spec d as 6 panel molded solid core. Deep with a utility knife. But cutting down a solid core door is different and i can t recall ever cutting one down. Eightdoors white primed 5 panel equal solid core wood slab door.
And it s totally ruined a saw blade. Hey guys i wanted to replace my bedroom door with a new 6 panel solid core door but keep the existing frame. 6 inches of it. They go across the bottom.
02 26 2009 8 59 am 12. Reliabilt 36 in x 80 in clear 6 panel solid core wood slab door. Do you have any suggestions as how to cut off a solid core door. You don t need to score the underside of the door.
Solid core doors offer good fire resistance when they are at least 1 3 4 inches thick. We were cutting that off or a portion of it. Anyone ever try cutting an anderson storm door the solid aluminum doors not the wood core emco doors. Some solid core doors intended to look like painted wood use no surface veneer at all they are solid slabs of mdf or another engineered wood shaped and molded to give.
Construction makes them resistant to expansion and contraction due to humidity changes. For pricing and availability. Custom sizes door prices are ridiculous and the wood core doors that are designed to be cut don t last very long on the coast. Yeah having the staples inside of that is not unusual.
I ve got a couple to replace that are only about an inch short of standard height. For pricing and availability. Depends on how they might have been used in the manufacturing. If one is cutting down a solid core door clean out the core material as david described then use the cutoff piece to reblock the door.
This helps to guide the knife and then if the knife slips it only scars the waste side of the cut. You will need to clean off the skins but the piece should fit back in well. Unfortunately it s 80 inches tall and it needs to be cut down to 78 inches. I ve cut down plenty of hc doors gluing a 5 4 pine rail in the bottom for support.
We like to clamp a metal straightedge to the door on top of the masking tape along the cutting line.