Installing interior door trim will provide you a room a perfect look that will spice up your interior decoration. But before you can get a perfect trim, you will need to follow step by step to help get it done rightly.
As a homeowner, it will be best you know how to install interior trim around sliding glass door so that you can save some money for other objectives. Also, if you learn the installation process, you can as well change any wear out trims after years of use. That way, you keep the glass door trim in top shape at all time.
Required tools for interior trim around sliding glass door
- Finish nails
- Five pieces of door casing
- Paintable latex caulk
- Miter box or power miter saw
- Bar clamps
- Hammer and nail set or power finish nailer
- Caulking gum
- Bar clamps
- Tape measure
- Pencil
How to install interior trim around sliding glass door
- If you want to know how to install interior trim, you can begin by taking the measurements of the opening width. To perform this, head to the top of the opening and calculate the width.
- After getting the size, include 3/8 inch to your answer. This step helps place a 3/16 reveal around the door frame. Even if professional advice this reveal as a best choice, you can pick another one that meet your door needs.
- Once you are happy with that, mark where the show on the jamb head meets the leg. This is where you will cut the leg. Repeat the process on the other side.
- If the casing to meet with miters, cut the legs suing a miter saw set to forty-five degrees. Also, cut one end of the casing head. If you are right-handed, cut the left side. Perform the opposite if you are left-handed. This makes the next step easier.
- Holding the head in place on the jamb, set the cut you just made with the reveal on the jamb leg. Without moving the head, mark where the reveal on the uncut side meets the casing. Take the head to the miter saw and cut this miter.
- If you have miter clamps, lay the 2 casing legs and worktable head, fully coat the mitered ends with carpenters glue, and clamp the miters together.
- After half an hour of camping, you can install he unit casing. Lacking miter clamps, install the casing one piece at a time.
- Nail one leg to the jamb first, using 1 ½ inch or 4d finish nails, 15-gauge gun nails spaced about fourteen inches apart.
- Align the edge of the casing with the reveal marks.
- Test fit the head to this leg. You may need to manage the cut a little. Often, trimming the back of the miner cut with a knife, block plane, or rasp is all that is required to close slightly open miter.
- Spread the glue in the joint, grip the head in place, and nail it to the jamb along the reveal line.
- Squeeze the joint tight, and nail into it from the side. Repeat the process where the next leg meets the causing head, this time adjusting the cut on the leg if required.