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Cutting and Installing Door Trim

With the door to the master bath installed, Ryley conceals the rough carpentry work with door casings. Three boards make up the door casing � two side casings and a top casing. The boards are miter cut at a 45-degree angle with a power miter saw, and back cut with a hand plane to ensure a tight fit. The side casing is cut to length and hung first. Ryley begins by nailing the inside and outside edges of the first side casing. Next, the top piece is given a bead of wood glue on the mitered edge and nailed in place. Finally, the last casing is nailed in place, and the door installation is complete.

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Cutting and Installing Door Trim

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" What kind of trim stock is this that we using this is. Never. Actually it's clapping -- I -- kind it is preprimed. It's a picture frame installation it's in other words it's mitered corner. I want to back -- off a little bit to make sure that the finished edges and that's that is a carpenter's trick when you make your cuts like that 45 degrees. If you plane a little bit off the back side it will ensure that the front side looks really tight. Kennedy have to got on both sides are one. I think you're not -- got a number two that went. Good idea and it just a little bit wrong. Now don't you have to put. So make sure it's plumb. Well we know that the jamb is plumb because adores working perfectly really need to do is follow this margin. All the way down doors and that's about. -- Three sixteenths of an inch reveal right yes right down here. Just follow that right straight down. So that's the best nailing pattern on the very edge. In an outside outside the attic gets five when in the middle top and bottom and -- in between okay. Nice and -- It worked together. --"

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