The trick with doors is to make sure that the board on the HINGE SIDE of your door is perfectly level in every single way. Whether your installed a new door with frame and jam included etc. That part of your frame has to be perfectly level, you attach your door too it and then shim the rest of it all and attach the rest of the door (if your door came with its jam etc)
I have seen and known carpenters that have trouble with doors. First, you need to me if it is interior, or exterior? Are your walls plaster, or drywall? The door sold at the big box stores, usually do not have the correct jamb. The ones they sell are on a 4-9/16" jamb. Great if the house is new with 1/2" drywall on both sides. If it an exterior door, That jamb minimum will be a 5-1/4" jamb. But those stores will be on 4-9/16". Absolutely useless. They will tell you "you can extend the jamb". What they don't say is that that is for a professional, with all the tools. You are better off to hire a professional, and go to a regular lumber company, and let them order it from their mill work supplier.
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The trick with doors is to make sure that the board on the HINGE SIDE of your door is perfectly level in every single way. Whether your installed a new door with frame and jam included etc. That part of your frame has to be perfectly level, you attach your door too it and then shim the rest of it all and attach the rest of the door (if your door came with its jam etc)
I have seen and known carpenters that have trouble with doors. First, you need to me if it is interior, or exterior? Are your walls plaster, or drywall? The door sold at the big box stores, usually do not have the correct jamb. The ones they sell are on a 4-9/16" jamb. Great if the house is new with 1/2" drywall on both sides. If it an exterior door, That jamb minimum will be a 5-1/4" jamb. But those stores will be on 4-9/16". Absolutely useless. They will tell you "you can extend the jamb". What they don't say is that that is for a professional, with all the tools. You are better off to hire a professional, and go to a regular lumber company, and let them order it from their mill work supplier.