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Posted by pipedown on May 19, 2008, 11:25 pm
There is at least 2 inches of solid wood at the top and bottom of the door
which can be trimmed. Try pinching the door in the store or use a stud
finder to determine the exact cutoff limits.
If it were much shorter than you would need a solid door but you should be
able to trim 2" total, 3" will be close. Look for a spec sheet for the
door, it may be there.
Cut as much as you can from the bottom then the rest from the top so it
looks good.
>I just had a number of interior doors replaced in an old house that I am
>having renovated. The door replacements were done to make all of the
>interior doors in the house match instead of having mismatched door styles
>throughout the house. The original doors were 77" to 78" high. I had the
>doors replaced with inexpensive hollow core Masonite veneer 6-panel door
>slabs.
>
> The replacement door slabs were 80 inches high, so they had to be cut.
> But the cuts meant that either the top or bottom ended up as just an open
> hollow space between the front and back veneers. Somehow that doesn't
> seem right to me. What do contractors normally do in this situation? Do
> they really just leave the top or bottom open like that? Do they try to
> fill in the space with a replacement filler piece?
>
> When I search in stores and on the Internet, I can't seem to find interior
> door slabs that come in any size less than 80' high. Am I missing
> something? Don't manufacturers sell hollow core doors that are 78" high
> so that when they are cut a little shorter there is still a solid end
> piece at the top and bottom?
>
> Is my only other option to use solid core replacement interior doors?
> And, if so, do they sell solid core interior replacement doors that are 78
> inches high?
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