I think i have screwed up my flooring- too thick door wont open

[Dumdidums]

So yesterday i put down engineered wood flooring in the living room but despite checking this with a sample i think that the flooring is too thick and the door wont be able to open or close. Ive done about 75% of the room now.

Is the only solution to get someone in to trim the door ??????

Very disappointed about this , as i thought i had checked this with s sample and everything was ok.

You will have to have the door taken off the hinges and planed.

Not a big deal. Done it loads of times with carpets! Get a handyman in to trim the door down.

This happened to me when I put down wooden flooring. I just took the door off its hinges and cut about a quarter of an inch off the bottom with a circular saw then put it up again. I clamped a bit of wood across the bottom of the door as a guide for the saw, and you’d never know it had been trimmed by looking at it.

DH sawed the bottom off a door just this week for the same reason. Couldn't find plane and didn't want to wait while I borrowed one off my dad.

Yes no big deal to take the door down, plane off the bottom edge and re-hang. Easy DIY job but needs 2 people for the hanging!

When you tried out the sample did you allow for the underlay?

Completely normal, could have happened if you had gone for a new carpet with thick underlay.

Removing , trimming and rehanging a door are one of the most basic DIY tasks, easy to cock up but satisfying when done correctly.
Just make sure you trim a little at a time, you don't want to take off too much and have a large gap at the bottom.

Are you all sure its easy to rehang a door, the screw hinges look rusty. Will i need a saw more powerful than average. I dont have a saw so am looking online to see what ones to buy . The people online are charging near £100 to trim the door but these electric saws sound cheaper

Don't saw it, plane it. More control over how much comes off and easier than sawing a sliver.

Hmm
I'd get the door planed and rehung professionally.
People say this stuff is easy but it's only easy when you know how IMO.

What on earth other solution could there possibly be?

Live with the door permanently open?

It's a quick and easy if you have the right tools and a little bit of experience. Otherwise a total shit show! I did it for the first time under supervision this year. It's important to mark the line you are planing to or very easy to go wobbly! Took about 2 hours start to finish so imagine it's really only an hour's job for someone with skills.

Don’t attempt to saw it. You need to plane it.

If you’re not sure how to do it then get someone in who does. You’ll ruin your door very easily if you don’t know what you’re doing.

This is a very common issue, to the point where many floor fitters will see it as a routine task to trim doors for you, often for a standard charge of a few extra £, but in my experience the standard of the result they achieve is highly variable. Many will try sawing the bottom off the door in situ with an oscillating multicutter something like this: fein.com/en_uk/machines/oscillating-multi-tools/multimaster/cordless-multimaster-amm-700-max-select-71293462000/

The results achieved that way aren't always great though, and as others have said the best way is to take the door off and use a plane to shave material off the bottom as needed.

If you don't have the confidence, skills and/or tools to do it yourself, it shouldn't take a carpenter more than am hour so with luck you'll find someone willing to fit it around other work rather than making you wait for months. Look out for people working at nearby properties and see if you can persuade someone to pop round and sort it for you!

I think some carpet fitters have a special plane for this job that can do it in situ, I think the fitters used this the last time we had new carpets..but not sure what its name is...

"not sure what its name is."

Multicutter

But this is presumably a solid external door 44mm thick.

If you have not done it before try to ask around for a local carpenter (do not use an advertising website where they pay to be listed, even if it masquerades as a recommendations website). Do not use a freephone agency.

If you get someone in, I'd always recommend changing the hinges to stainless lift-off at the same time. It makes future maintenance very simple.

Hanging a door perfectly is arduous and difficult for the first few dozen you do.

We've all done it!

Take the door off the hinges

Attach straight wood batten across the door as a guide. May have to buy two clamps.

Hand saw, using the baton as a ruler. Take tea breaks if needed.

Also watch YouTube videos first, they're brilliant for DIY tips

It should only cost you a hand saw, a couple of clamps and a wood baton if you don't have one handy

If all fails and it's wonky or cut too high, get a posh looking draught excluder

Honestly, it should be fine. The hardest part is finding something to prop the door up with while you saw it

We had new thick carpets in our house recently and all the internal doors needed shaving. Took them about 45 mins to take off 8 doors, plane them and reattach and they charged 85 quid x

These were our carpet fitters. Maybe ring around local fitters or if not carpenters

I planed my double doors after new carpet fitting.
Suffice to say, I have 2 draught excluders beneath said doors - all year round.
Pay someone, who knows what they're doing, to trim and re-hang for you.

@Tomatobear

We've all done it!

Take the door off the hinges

Attach straight wood batten across the door as a guide. May have to buy two clamps.

Hand saw, using the baton as a ruler. Take tea breaks if needed.

Also watch YouTube videos first, they're brilliant for DIY tips

It should only cost you a hand saw, a couple of clamps and a wood baton if you don't have one handy

If all fails and it's wonky or cut too high, get a posh looking draught excluder

Honestly, it should be fine. The hardest part is finding something to prop the door up with while you saw it

See, I’d say £100 is cheap if I have to fuck about with all this.

Take down door. Buy a baton. Buy a saw. Buy clamps. What am I cutting it on again? Spend hours stressing. Try to rehang door straight. Realise it looks shot, needs redoing or a straight excluder. FFS.

Honestly if you have loads of doors to do, anticipate more in the future (doing up properties etc) and have patience and a desire to DIY then sure.

But most often £100 is well spent if you can stretch to it. And you probably can because by the time you’ve bought the clamps, saw etc you’re on the way anyway (to a shit DIY job that will annoy you for ages)

£100 is worth it. Ring round and ask for quotes. My dh is a handyman and he wouldn't charge you that. It's not a hard job but it's a pita to get it right. The handyman will do in a fraction of the time. If you buy a plane how many times are you ever going to use it again?

I found this to be a very simple job to do with a handsaw. If you're capable of laying engineered wood flooring (especially the bits around the door frames!), you're capable of doing this.

Also, I didn't find it a problem rehanging doors that had already been hung, and so already had hinges/ corresponding holes for the screws in the frame. I simply screwed the screws back into the holes singlehanded, and voila!

First, convert all your measurements to inches, it's unusual to find curtains sold in cm.

Then I'd recommend ebay. Secondhand takes a bit of patience, but you can get much better quality for your money. Otherwise I'd recommend this seller who makes curtains, e.g.william morris

Whatever you end up with I'd get interlined as they'll hang a lot better and keep draughts/light out.

Thanks for all the comments. I have decided that i am going to buy a planner and try to do it myself.
So basically i will now have a planner at home and electric saw used to cut the wood. !!