Bottom Door Clearance For Carpet
If the door is dragging on carpet it works pretty well to put a no.
Bottom door clearance for carpet. That ll be about an inch with decent carpet and underlay. If equal height of doors is not critical set the hinge side of doors 1 2 off floor to tuck in 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. 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.
Sounds like a bit of deliberate misinterpretation. The radius of the pencil usually provides adequate clearance. Cut off bottom of doors as needed. Do you really want an inch between the bottom of the door and carpet.
2 pencil on the carpet and mark the door. Exterior doors usually contact a threshold of some material. Some are wood some have a vinyl flexible insert that seals against the bottom of the door to keep out drafts. You may have to shorten a jam or two to do this.
It should be high enough to allow for expansion swelling of some small degree if it s wood. The only criteria is that the door shouldn t scrape the floor when moving. To fix the issue the doors need to be removed bottom of the jambs cut and reset the door. The best ways to shorten a door after laying carpet.
Swing the door over the full arc of its travel and mark it where it drags heaviest on the carpet. 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.