Custom Door Trim For Uneven Drywall / When the Wall or Sheet Rock Sticks Out Past the Door Jamb

hey everyone welcome back to the maverick designs woodworking channel my name is tom and today we're going to do something a little bit different behind me here is the door that goes from my dining room into my garage my attached garage uh about two years ago well maybe it was a year and a half i don't know if you asked my wife she'll say it was like 15 years ago my father and i well we attempted to put this door in and we got it in there and we did kind of sort of a job to it um ended up having to call a handyman to come over and give us a hand because we had trouble getting everything lined up but it's in there it's been like this for a while actually i just put this foam in um earlier today off camera uh it was open i had some um regular foam stuffed in there but it was pushing down on the door frame a little bit causing it to to bow but all this on the sides was open and my wife has been complaining for as long as it's been like that because you know bugs and stuff can get in through there and she doesn't like it um and it's taken me a while to get to this because i've been dreading putting the door trim on here um one because this is not something that i normally do but um i'm a woodworker so i figured i need to learn how to do some of this stuff but the biggest problem is is the door frame the door jamb is is leveled it's set the way it's supposed to be however on on the drywall here it's nice and flush all the way around until you get towards the bottom on both sides where the drywall is proud of the door jamb and i was trying to figure out how to get the door trim on there and accommodate for that proud drywall um i watched a few videos of some other carpenter types that do this kind of work and i just didn't like it because like most of them wanted you to like beat the drywall up with a hammer and like cut it out and make like i just didn't like it i was like i don't want to do that because what happens if i have to replace this door again in the future and then i have to deal with that and do drywall work and i was like yeah it's not worth it so i started thinking about it and i decided i was going to try to make some custom door trim to go around here and i'm going to use my router table to step out um the uh the difference on this side of the trim so that it'll fit nice and flush against both the wall and the door now where the steps are there's gonna probably be little tiny gaps on this side it's not really going to matter because you have this stone here and you're not going to be able to see it anyway but on the other side uh you know you have to it anyway so paintable caulk will go in there you won't even know the difference um and it should be completely flush against the door jamb all the way down so that's my project for today let's uh let's get started so like i said i've been putting this off for as long as i could and to be honest with you i probably would have tried to put it off even longer but uh we when we bought this house the walls were kind of a hideous salmon color and we've not liked it the whole time that we've been here for about four years now and we've always wanted to paint it and we just never got around to it because it's a lot of work but a couple times two three times a year we have a bunch of people that come over family friends you know for kids birthdays and you know my wife's birthday or my birthday or my dad's birthday or somebody's birthday generally and we have a pool so everybody likes to hang out here but uh this year we're rolling up to my daughter's birthday and my wife decided she wanted to paint the inside of the house so that motivated me to to get this done as you can see everything is nice and flush the way it's supposed to be until you get about halfway down the door on both sides then the drywall starts to incrementally come proud of the door jamb as much as about a half an inch at the bottom it's it's quite a bit actually towards the bottom so that's why i decided to try to step out that difference with the router on the back side of the trim on that side so that it sits flush against the door jamb and then i can you know fill in that side and it will look okay i mean that's the plan anyway another challenge that i found here was because there was kind of an extra gap at the top of the door that meant that i had to make the trim at least two and a quarter inches so that it would you know cover enough of the drywall so that it wouldn't look weird so that i wouldn't have to do any drywall work because i really didn't want to do that and i found that on the right side of the door frame i had basically exactly that much room so that wasn't part of the problem but on the left side there is a molding on the bottom that came over about a quarter of an inch too far that i wouldn't be able to get the two and a quarter inch door trim to fit on that side so i was gonna have to cut that baseboard back a little bit in order to make that work and again this is not something that i do normally but i decided to try to do it with an oscillating tool i don't use that thing very often but i have one but i figured i could get it and do it clean enough i had to do a little bit of extra cleanup at the very bottom with the chisel because i was you know scared to get the oscillating tool and damage the tiles with it so i didn't get all the way to the bottom and it actually turned out great much better than i thought it would pretty much perfect in fact and after a little bit of cleanup i was on to the next step of the project okay as you can see the shorts are back it's been like 105 outside all week this week and it's just unbearable being in here in a pair of jeans so it is what it is the first thing i needed to do was to rip the poplar boards that i bought for this trim down two two and a quarter these were the first actual project cuts i did on the new saw stop and it didn't disappoint nice clean cuts no saw marks and accurate just like it's supposed to be and no fighting with a broken extension lock if you don't know what i'm referring to go back and check out my hercules table saw review video for context everything considered it couldn't have gone smoother after that i set up my router to do a half inch round over on the inside edges of my trim it was originally my intention to do a quarter inch roundover on the outside edge but when i cut the reliefs out on the back to accommodate for the proud drywall i accidentally cut one on the wrong side and ended up just doing the half inch round over on both the inside and outside edges of the trim as a result it was a deviation to the original plan but both my wife and i actually liked the way it looked like that so i'm glad it happened that's how you take a screw up and make it work for you next i carefully measured out the steps of my relief cuts on the trim pieces starting with about half an inch of depth from the bottom and incrementally getting less and less deep as i worked up toward the middle where the drywall evened out the door jamb using distances that i had previously measured and worked out at the door jamb off camera on the first piece i started routing at the highest point with the shallowest cut all the way to the bottom and then adjusted the bit to cut the next deeper depth and routed down from that point and on and on until i did the deepest cut at the bottom where the drywall was the most proud but on the other piece i had to do exactly the opposite starting with the deepest cut at the bottom and then adjusting shallower and shallower as i moved up toward the middle otherwise i would have been routing in the wrong direction you might also notice that due to the width i needed to cut and the relative size of my bit i had to keep adjusting the fence back and forth so that i could do it in two passes it was kind of tedious but once i got into the groove of doing it it went pretty smoothly and it ended up working out really well and as you'll see shortly it came out better than i had even anticipated that's always a huge bonus on a project like this where one small problem or mishap can mess the whole thing up once i got that done it was time for everyone's favorite part of woodworking the sanding as much as i enjoyed sanding these pieces over the course of like an hour of my life that i'll never get back i'll super speed through it for you to save you the misery of watching me do it there's not really much to say about sanding anyway but if you really want some tips on it let me know in the comments and i'll be happy to do a whole video on that topic just for your viewing pleasure lord knows i do enough of it that getting footage will never be a problem like most things i sand i use the orbital when i can but usually i like to do one final pass by hand to make sure that i got everything especially on something that might get touched a lot or will be painted like this there are just little nuances that you can feel by hand that you can't feel when using a power sander there's a sanding tip for you okay so i got everything cut i got all those crazy contours done on the back to accommodate for the um drywall being proud of the door jamb and got all the round overs done everything sanded so they're all ready to go the only thing that's left is to cut the miters line everything up and and nail it on [Music] okay so i got this all cut got my miters cut got my round overs everything's good i got my door trim all ready to go on i have i don't know well you can see that routed out my spots here's a more shallower area here's the deeper area on this one because the drywall is um sticks out farther here than it does here and then it kind of tapers up so um let's check it out see how it worked huh looks pretty darn good i mean this side is completely flush let's see the side that we were wondering about yeah so um come here check it out okay so this is kind of difficult to do with one hand but uh as you can see it's nice and flush all the way down and then like i suspected the spots where i stepped it's actually pretty difficult to see but the spots where i step there's these these areas right here so there's a little bit of a gap here what i mean and then towards the bottom also well it's time when i push it in there it's not much of a gap at all so i mean it's when you put the caulking in there that's gonna look pretty darn good you're not even gonna notice it you know because of course it'll be painted afterwards okay so that was the one side this is the other side uh i asked my wife to paint this edge because it's the edge that's going to be um closest to the stone and you won't be able to get a paintbrush in there and uh she did paint the edge and you know did that as well but uh nobody's complaining here i sanded it down we'll repaint it once it's up there and all that but it's all good um off camera i already tested this one and checked it it's uh it's good just like the other one the only problem with this side and it's not really a huge problem is um after you know cutting and working the wood warped a little bit it curved um this way at the top so you probably can't see it from there but you know we're at the right distance off the bottom and it's you know maybe a quarter of an inch off up here but i'll start at the bottom when i you brad nail it in it's also a little bit warped this way but you know nothing that i can't press in and nail on and then once i get to about here where it starts i'll just uh have to pull it out and line it up straight get it get it good before i put the bread nails in but i think it's going to be fine i think we're ready to go let me go get all the stuff we need all right i got my trusty 18 gauge brad nailer here with some two-inch brad nails loaded up my air compressor let's get this stuff put on i decided the best way to go about this would be to start on one side work across the top and then finish the other side i have no idea if this is the right or even a preferred method of doing it but it worked out just fine for me the left side went on without any issues and then i tacked down the top on that side made sure it was level across the jamb and lined up with the trim on the right side and nailed it across the right side was where i had the most concern due to the bow that had developed in the board after working it but i started at the bottom per my plan worked about halfway up then pulled the board into the proper position on top nailed it and nailed it the rest of the way down it ended up being much easier than i anticipated and it turned out great well i'm pretty happy with that it's probably not 100 perfect but it's definitely good enough for a guy who is not a professional carpenter so the miters look good the gaps look great on both sides i'm gonna paint this thing and call it a job well done here i'm just using a spring-loaded nail set to seat a few of the brad nails that weren't quite sub flush and then filled all the divots with wood filler originally i had planned to use a paintable white caulk along the seam of the trim where it sits on the drywall but once everything was installed i realized that it wouldn't be at all necessary that trim sat almost perfectly flush against the drywall with a couple of barely noticeable voids where i had stepped up the routing so instead of driving the home depot to get caulk i didn't really feel was necessary and man i hate using that stuff it really is an art to get it on so that it looks good and doesn't make an unholy mess or at least it is as far as i'm concerned so i ended up just filling those little voids with some joint compound that i already had laying around then cleaned it up with a damp sponge and man was i impressed with how good it looked you know i always expect some level of imperfection in everything that i do especially when doing something that is relatively new to me like this and that can be quite difficult for me since i have a little ocd and a tendency to beat myself up over small imperfections but as it turned out i couldn't have been happier with the outcome is that the right way to do it maybe not probably not and i'm sure that someone will mention why in the comments at some point but like i said humidity and wood movement just isn't something that really happens where i live so just be cognizant of that if you're doing something like this for yourself because if you live in a high humidity area you might want to consider the caulk as it would obviously be more flexible and forgiving with expansion and contraction but this worked out great for me guys so i got all of the wood filler in the brad nail holes i also put a little bit at the miters i didn't really need it but when i sand it off it'll look like it's one piece of wood and like i mentioned i used joint compound on the side i mean the gap was so minimal there was only really one spot where it was significant where i showed you earlier and i mean literally i just closed the little seam that was there and it looks great and uh you know i live in the desert there's not a lot of humidity here like it's virtually non-existent so um the wood shrinking and expanding inside the house is basically not possible i've never noticed anything in here doing that um but i i do think i should probably lay this disclaimer out there um because i'm sure there's gonna be some finnish carpenters that see this i mean hopefully somebody other than me sees it but um some finnish carpenters might see this and um i can only imagine what they'll put in the comments you know that's not the right way to do it is you're teaching people the wrong way so here's the thing right i'm not a finnish carpenter i'm not pretending to be and um i'm just a diy-er and this works for me it worked really really well for me and i'm very very happy with it um if there's a better way to do it by all means seek out an expert but i'm just showing you that this is the way that i did it and it worked really well and i'm very very happy with it so at this point all i have to do is wait for this stuff to dry once it dries i'll sand it down we'll get it painted and we'll be done i didn't see the point of showing you even more sanding but take my word for it i cleaned up that wood filler and we got the trim painted it wound up looking great and we were really happy with the way it turned out and that's all i have for you today but if you like this type of content please consider subscribing because there's a lot more like this coming with more diy and a lot of build videos coming your way and the best way that you can support the channel and keep this content coming is to subscribe that said take it easy happy woodworking and we'll see you next time

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Length: 20min 44sec (1244 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 26 2022