Squaring up a door frame

[RaceDiagnostics]

Table saw and plunge saw will not give a deep enough cut, unless I cut top and bottom, I need 95mm depth of cut.

 

[Screwdriver]

You talking about making a long taper? Use a power planer.

 

[Nomad]

An old boy gave me some good advice when he was helping me renovate my first house:
I doesn't have to be right - it just has to look right.

If the frame is solid, that + the glass are what your eye sees.
Can you get a new door, same width as yours but a couple of inches taller, cut the top & bottom edges so they line up with the frame?
Technically the door will be at angle but it will line up with the frame & glass so visually you won't notice it.
If you buy a door with a wide section at the top and bottom it won't be obvious after you cut the angles.

It's just a thought

For info, this week I'm trying to lay tiles downstairs in a house that only has 1 square corner, *EVERY* other wall in the house is off-square to some degree. The 2 main rooms don't even line up so if I run the tiles from 1 room into the next - the 2nd room is cockeyed from the start. No matter how I lay the tiles, at least 2 sides in every room are cockeyed. It's driving me crazy I'm starting to think mosaic is the only solution

 

[gaz1]

Table saw and plunge saw will not give a deep enough cut, unless I cut top and bottom, I need 95mm depth of cut.

so cut to the desired amount flip it over and recut most circular saws cut 50mm depth so any circular saw will cut 100mm of depth of wood just by flipping the wood over

just remember to wedge the wood or use a splitter if not and the wood closes up that wood is going to be fired at you at high speed

note the piece of steel on this build

 

[Gritineye]

An old boy gave me some good advice when he was helping me renovate my first house:
I doesn't have to be right - it just has to look right.

This is the best advice you'll get on this subject, and it's the way I made my living working under the listed building radar on old country cottages for most of my working life.

 

[Agroshield]

...cutting this long wedge will not be easy, 44mm at one end and 15mm at the other, 94 deep.

It does not need to be 94mm deep. Make it in two halves, each 47mm deep, which is within the capacity of your saw. If you start with a piece of timber that is 44 + 15 + your saw kerf wide, you will get both pieces out of the same stock. The joint will be covered by the door.

What you are doing is cutting a pair of folding wedges. This is just the same except the wedges will be 2m long.

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

Proof of concept.

Limited woodworking tools, just enough to scrape by.

Batten marked up, plunged in from one side, then the other.

Cleaned up with the plane.

Little bit of fetling to do and then the other side.

 

[roblane65]

I like a man ( or person ) that's prepared to have a go . Just be sure you don't make the rest of visually wonkey by leveling the door .It can be a quite effect personally I would have made the door ( or new one ) fit the opening .

 

[voipio]

The timber that butts up against the wall looks pretty much vertical, at least based on the verticals of the house opposite.

 

[JOEPRO]

I'm sure a 20 tonne porta power would move it but then it's keeping it there is the problem.

I think the approach of making it look right is the correct choice given the circumstances. Aka make something to fit the opening and shim / frame it out.

 

[Screwdriver]

You bought a power planer!

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

Both posts in.

Door blank cut down to size and gluing/pining on the lipping.

Hinges on and trial fit

Quick coat of primer, cat doing QC.

That's it for today, ton of work still to go in to the door.

 

[reb78]

Thats going to look just fine once its all painted up and the door is finished.

 

[addjunkie]

Looks good, but if Id been going to all that trouble resizing the frame think Id have made it fit an off the shelf exterior door with glass etc….

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

Looks good, but if Id been going to all that trouble resizing the frame think Id have made it fit an off the shelf exterior door with glass etc….

It's a huge opening, more than 2m by 1m, doors this size are thousands of £. I'll be adding 3 windows and 3 panels to match the original. I'm in a conservation area, where new has to match old

 

[Onoff]

Book a JCB, set fire to the house, demolish it, and then crowd fund the rebuild.

It's the modern way.

Don't do that, there'll be an outcry on social media, a lot of it by people who've never even set foot in your house. You'll have to rebuild it brick by brick complete with wonky door...

 

[reb78]

Don't do that, there'll be an outcry on social media, a lot of it by people who've never even set foot in your house. You'll have to rebuild it brick by brick complete with wonky door...

Thats if the locals havent half inched half of the bricks as souvenirs

 

[Screwdriver]

Out of interest, did you establish what shifted? Assuming the house hasn't tilted (!) I guess either the wall on the right has sunk or the porch/atrium floor has heaved.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Quick coat of primer,

You not got a wider brush....

 

[OJCar]

You not got a wider brush....

I think it was very skilful brush work to touch in the whiskers and bib on the cat that well.