How To Make Interior Doors

Making an interior door using 2x4 s and 1x12 s.

How to make interior doors. I needed custom doors for my basement because of the low ceilings. Run down to your local hardware store or home improvement center and purchase a sheet of plywood to use as the main panel for your new door. Use painter s tape to hold the trim in place while the glue dries for 24 hours.

Lightly sand the whole door. For a standard interior door 1 2 in 1 3 cm plywood will work best. Check for square by measuring diagonally from corner to corner across the door in each direction.

Interior doors are usually 1 3 8 thick. It consists of a rectangular frame with two thin pieces of plywood glued to both sides. Remove as much tape as you can by hand then scrape and sand the rest of the tape and epoxy off.

Measure and mark a template for the trim moulding on the door using a pencil. I build mine by laminating two pieces of 3 4 thick stock. I usually do these lamination clamp ups in a vacuum press.

34 learn how to make raised panel doors with solid wood. You can assemble a hollow core door with four. The benefit of these doors is that they are cheap stable and easy to paint.

But they can be done with regular clamps too provided you have enough. Hollow core doors are light resist warping and affordable. In this video i show you a simple quick and affordable way to build yourself a unique door for about 50.