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So I’m having a polite stand off with the Painter and Decorator. He wants to put internal doors up before the new carpet is down, I don’t think that makes sense, yet I am also fearful he wants to put the top coat (they are already primed) on the doors after the carpet is layed. If that’s the case I want to insists on shoes covers and protection all over the floor.
Whats the “right” way of doing things, for me reference and use in todays conversation?
I am not an expert, but how do you know how much to trim off the door without the carpet in place?
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Ask the carpet fitter! Very few tradesmen are interested in what is best for the project, only what’s best for them.
As project manager, you need to establish the best way of doing it and inform all trades accordingly.
I am not an expert but I'd get the doors hung and painted before the carpet is fitted, even if the doors need a few mm more taking off when the carpet goes in.
Painter and chippie will use dust sheets but I'd still rather have it done first and the carpets be the last step.
Think I'd be asking him to do it the other way round, paint the doors when he otherwise would have been hanging them, hang the doors when he otherwise would have been painting them. I'm not a painter and decorator, but surely it's also easier to fit all the door furniture after painting (hinges, handles, latch) and then touch up?
As project manager, you need to establish the best way of doing it and inform all trades accordingly.
Well, thats why I'm asking.
Think I’d be asking him to do it the other way round, paint the doors when he otherwise would have been hanging them, hang the doors when he otherwise would have been painting them. I’m not a painter and decorator, but surely it’s also easier to fit all the door furniture after painting (hinges, handles, latch) and then touch up?
This is my view.
Do the doors come pre-finished? Most do these days.
Carpet fitter would probably prefer no doors, and you know how the other trades think
The other issue is that I would prefer the top coat to harden for a while before scraping the bottom of a too long door through my new carpet (as above ^^ how will anyone know if the door fits until the carpet is down. A 15mm gap might be standard, but does that suit your carpet?)
For me, fit carpet, fit doors, paint doors
fitting carpets should be the very last job in a room, always has been on any job i've been on. makes sense to get all potentially messy jobs done first. any decent carpet fitter will have no problem fitting with the door on unless it needs trimming and even then its only a matter of unscrewing the door.
Well, looks as though doors will be painted and hung 5mm off the bare floor, then removed after 24hrs. Carpet will be laid, then they'll return to refit/plane the doors.
I fit doors for a job, get a piece of underlay and carpet to measure the height of pilke and mark onto door , plane to skim carpet sample. Then fit doors and get them painted leave for a few days for paint to harden, then fit carpet, any lose pile want stick to freshly sticky painted doors, if doors need a skim again ensure doors are dry and not sticky before removing them as the paint may drag off.
Remember tea/coffee and biscuits always make the job go easier.