Samuel Brooks
04-19-2008, 7:29 PM
Mess up doors for my daughters closet.
I just hung my 2nd set of frame and panel closet doors. The openings were different between the two sets. The first one went up great. The 2nd one has almost a 2" overlap. :eek: The euro hings won't fix that kind of mistake.
I went back to my original measurements and at the point when I calculated the 2nd door opening I added that amount to both doors instead of 1/2 the difference. :mad:.
Any ideas? They are raised panel doors and I gluded the MDF raised panels into the doors since they are going into my daughers room, I figured they would be hard on them.
I figure that I have a few options.
One is to trim off about 1/2" from both stiles on each side of the door to free up the 2" but that would leave me with a 1.5" wide stiles on a door that is 84" tall. I am concerned about the overall strength.
I could cut 1" off both of where the doors meet. That would give me a 1" stile in the middle and a 2" on the outside. But when they are shut it would like like a 2" in the middle :D.
Most likely the best option:
Build two new raised panel doors the correct width. It's just another 15 bf of popular plus MDF for the raised panel plus another few days of time that I do not have.
Newby mistakes :(.
Thanks for coments.
I just hung my 2nd set of frame and panel closet doors. The openings were different between the two sets. The first one went up great. The 2nd one has almost a 2" overlap. :eek: The euro hings won't fix that kind of mistake.
I went back to my original measurements and at the point when I calculated the 2nd door opening I added that amount to both doors instead of 1/2 the difference. :mad:.
Any ideas? They are raised panel doors and I gluded the MDF raised panels into the doors since they are going into my daughers room, I figured they would be hard on them.
I figure that I have a few options.
One is to trim off about 1/2" from both stiles on each side of the door to free up the 2" but that would leave me with a 1.5" wide stiles on a door that is 84" tall. I am concerned about the overall strength.
I could cut 1" off both of where the doors meet. That would give me a 1" stile in the middle and a 2" on the outside. But when they are shut it would like like a 2" in the middle :D.
Most likely the best option:
Build two new raised panel doors the correct width. It's just another 15 bf of popular plus MDF for the raised panel plus another few days of time that I do not have.
Newby mistakes :(.
Thanks for coments.