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The walls of my house are only 3.5" thick.
They appear to be sheathed with 1/2" drywall (included in the 3.5" measurement).
Does this mean that they are all built out of 2x3s?
I removed some of the door molding on the computer room. I'm starting to wonder if, at least for this doorway, it's not going to be a lot easier just to pull the whole casing and make a new one. It's a prefabbed (probably prehung) door, and the current trim is gun-stapled to the casing, which is split down the middle, and held together with two lines of nails through the stop bead. The nails through the stop bead also hold the casing to the wall, as do the trim nails at the outer edge of the face molding, which is splined together with corrugated metal plates at the corner joins.
We were planning on taking the trim off to sand it clean before putting it back on, but with what we've got, it may be easier to scrape it all down in place.
Replacing it, however, should be fairly easy, as the casing can be made from pine 1x4s with generic door molding on the faces.
They appear to be sheathed with 1/2" drywall (included in the 3.5" measurement).
Does this mean that they are all built out of 2x3s?
I removed some of the door molding on the computer room. I'm starting to wonder if, at least for this doorway, it's not going to be a lot easier just to pull the whole casing and make a new one. It's a prefabbed (probably prehung) door, and the current trim is gun-stapled to the casing, which is split down the middle, and held together with two lines of nails through the stop bead. The nails through the stop bead also hold the casing to the wall, as do the trim nails at the outer edge of the face molding, which is splined together with corrugated metal plates at the corner joins.
We were planning on taking the trim off to sand it clean before putting it back on, but with what we've got, it may be easier to scrape it all down in place.
Replacing it, however, should be fairly easy, as the casing can be made from pine 1x4s with generic door molding on the faces.
