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Installing Door Casing to Perfection(Continued) Page 2

Paint it first

Once you get your door casing material purchased and home, paint it before you cut or install it. It’s a lot easier to paint the door casing working on sawhorses. There will be less touch-up required afterward.

Safety First

A miter saw is loud, spewing sawdust everywhere, and potentially dangerous to your person for every cut. Safe practices dictate that no jewelry or long sleeves be worn. Be sure to keep your hands well away from the blade. I do a practice cut(without power) to see where my fingers are in relation to where the blade will be for every cut. I also wear hearing protection and safety glasses when using it.

Setting the reveal

This installation will have the door casing installed with a 1/4″ reveal. This will leave approximately 1/2″ of jamb for nailing. A combination square works extremely well for this next step. Extend the blade of the combination square 1/4″ from the base and lock it in place. Now butt the square against the jamb with the blade resting on the jamb and mark the reveal line on the jamb. Use a sharp pencil and place intersecting marks in the corners, marks along the header, and at the bottom of the jamb edge and a couple of places in between.

In carpentry, a reveal is a feature resembling a rabbet, but constructed of separate pieces of wood. A reveal may typically be seen at the edge of a door or window, where the face molding is set back, often by a distance from 3/16″ (5 mm) to 1/2″ (12 mm,) to reveal the edge of the casing plank.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reveal_(carpentry)

Use a nail with the head snipped off as a substitute for a drill bit. The same size nail you’re driving works best.

Nailing, hammer or air nailer?

I don’t recommend using a hammer as things will move around with each blow of the hammer. But if you must use a hammer predrill all your nail holes to prevent splitting.

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