Ok today I went back to the clients to find out that the carpet installers banged up my millwork pretty bad. I came to do touch up and hang my doors back up. I masked all my hinges and just pulled the pins labled doors and got all door back in and everyone does not close right this is why I masked the hinges and not unscrew them so this would not happen. what happen to the doors?
Even though it actually might make for more work, when other trades are following you leave them finished product. you should have rehung the doors. The floor installers just have to take them off and rehang them again.
Ya, what oden said. I have 1 flooring company that I will leave doors off next to their casing for, but they know that they have to put them back on. It saves us both some time, but its an understanding we have so it works.
Even though it actually might make for more work, when other trades are following you leave them finished product. you should have rehung the doors. The floor installers just have to take them off and rehang them again.
I quess I don't understand I left them off so I did not have to worry about them messing them up. why they don't close right is what does not make sence there is no way it is because of the paint is it?
We came upon this problem a couple of weeks ago. We had the doors off to spray and left them off since new flooring was going in. The flooring was a bit higher than it was previously. Luckily it was only the bifold doors that ended up being a little tight and we were able to adjust them
Its one of those things you have to be able to fix as a painter. Doors are aggravating to deal with but unless the gc makes it the trim guys problem then you have to take responsibility.
Could be a lot of reasons why they no longer fit, but if a few mils of paint is causing them to no longer shut they were not fitted correctly to begin with.
Sorry for the delay had a lot going on lately.... this is the info I got from client. They had new doors installed several years ago I was not paying attention to the doors when I took them off and to my disappointment it is because doors are really tight and it is the f ing paint. To top things off sw rep told me I should be ok to use U M A primer on mill work and top coat because it was stain and lac finish well the only thing it is bonding to is the top coat this is a lesson learned should of done what I have done in the past and used a deglosser or simply said no to painting millwork too busy for this headache the bad thing is I still have the down stairs to the house to do.
Should I leave the rest of the doors hung and paint in place?
Could be worse many years ago I was working for a drywall contractor and we working in this large house. The painters came in and told the new guy to remove the doors and take them to the staging area to be sprayed. He did 30 some of them, the problem, nobody told him to mark them.
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