G'day and welcome back to Buildsum
And in this video today, I want to show you how I go about
Putting the architrave around a door
Now generally when I do this I'd have the door fitted
and that way I can use the actual door to make sure the gap around
Between the jamb and the door itself is consistent as I go so
Actual door on, if you need to take it off later that's so fine that I don't put the architrave on with the door in place
The first thing I do is always buy
5.4m lengths of my architrave material
and that way that one length will do one side of a door you'll get your two styles and the head out of that length
so
1/ 5.4m length will do one side of a door up to
about an
standard
2040 by 820 size door if it's much bigger much wider than that you'll need
a longer length of timber
So buy a 5.4m length to start with then what I do is I come in
aproximatley
2200 from each end, and I put my first mitre
On each of those so a bit longer than what we need at the moment, but I just rough cut those
to a rough length around 2200 and the opposite so I end up with a set of
styles, and that leaves me with
my head
At the moment the head will have the wrong angle on going back the wrong way, so
Second thing I do
is I then cut
that angle on the head, so I haven't measured any doors touched any doorways yet
I've just done that and you can go in and cut a set of
architrave for every door that you need to do so whether you do one door or 15 doors you can cut your architraves and
Make yourself up a set for each door before you actually start
So the next step is actually go back to the doorway, and I go around and mark my quirk on my door
So the quirk is a little,
generally about 5mm shadow line that we set the architrave back
So we go and mark that, I mark that with combination square
this was setting the combination square till about 4mm allowing for the pencil line to give you a 5mm mark and
go around the door do that as often as you for you need to I normally do one in the centre of the head
Definitely set at the corners and a couple of times down the length of style
You can mark your quirk
Okay once I've done that I'm in grab my head material and
I sit it in place
making sure that the inside of the mitre there is lined up with my
intersection off my quirk
Across the other side and all of a second mark that point there where it intersects with a quirk
And I can cut that mitre
No measurements needed just mark directly off the actual door
So then cut that, tack it into place
I just at this point a couple of nails into the actual jamb material don't nail into the Gyprock
or into the wall at this stage a
couple nails into the jamb material to hold that in place
Then grab your style and turn it upside down and set the point on the ground now
You need to be careful that you don't drive the point into the ground and ruin it
But one of the advantages of doing it this way is that the the point is not going to sit on any
lumps of rock or anything that any dirt that's on the ground it'll cut through that and you wont get as
much chance of an error as you would if you sat the flat edge on the ground
so obviously all we do now is we transfer the height of the
top of the head material onto the style and that'll be the length that we cut it out now
depending on what your floor finish is going to be probably have a couple of millimetres of play there
So you could probably come a couple of millimetres under and have carpet or something
won't matter what's on the bottom
So your transfer your height across for that
cut that to length, do the same on the other side obviously
And then you can turn them around
glue your mitres
using a PVA glue
And of course then you can nail it all off making sure when you do now it off
That you maintain the gap between the jamb and the door
And then you don't move it too far with pulling the jamb in and out
So there you go, that's how I do my architrave around a door