How To Manually Cut A Hollow Core Door Into Panels

Make that cut and double check it against the pattern.

How to manually cut a hollow core door into panels.

Two ways to make a hollow core door into a 5 panel door one of which will only cost about 12. Add a support sawhorse underneath or enlist an assistant to prevent the piece from dropping out and damaging the door s veneer. Insert the blade of a jigsaw into the hole. I used approximately four 8 trim pieces per door for making panels on both sides.

Clamp a piece of scrap wood to the miter saw s fence. Next up in shut the front door diy week. Just because a door is hollow doesn t mean it can t be trimmed. Cut along the line.

Step 2 measure the distance between the blade and the right hand edge of the circular saw s plate. Hollow core doors have a 3 inch block of wood inside the bottom of the door. It just takes a simple solution like this. Make sure that the bottom of the door is still solid.

You ve seen two different ways of adding molding to transform flat doors now jenna is here with two more gorgeous door updates. In today s video i show you how i trimmed and rehung our hollow core spare room door including re setting the hinges and refurbishing the door itself. Place the straight edge on the marks and score a line with the utility knife. If it is hollow you ll need to replace the section of the wood.

Place one of the blanks on your door layout and mark where the right inside miter should be cut. Measure from the top edge of the door and make several marks across the bottom of the door representing where the door will be cut. For the smaller doors it will be less and for the four small pantry closet doors i will only do the front of the door that faces out. I placed all the cut trim pieces on the door where i would be gluing them down like so.

Now you can use it to position the stop block.