Drywall Extends Past Door Jamb

These jambs span from one side of the wall to the other.

Drywall extends past door jamb.

The ripped out the plaster and put in drywall and now all of the jambs protrude past the drywall. Doorjambs are designed to fit standard width walls made out of 2 by 4 or 2 by 6 lumber plus a layer of 1 2 inch drywall on each side of the wall. The first thing you need to do is to determine how long the door jamb extension needs to be. Not everything is perfect.

Determine the length of the side jambs and the horizontal jambs. Tools used on this job. It is an old house 1920 s 2 story that had 2 layers of lathe and plaster on it. As an amazon associate i make.

Mark the outline of the door jamb using a pencil. What he ended up doing is to extend the jam in order to split the difference i e at maximum the jam was 1 8 past the dw at minimum 1 8 behind. The door casing is nailed to the jamb and to the wall and covers the space between the doorjamb and the wall. In the place we re modeled he did much of our trim work and like the op we had many jams that were not parallel nor flush with the walls.

It s important to know what to do in less than ideal situations. A buddy of mine does trim work for a living. Step 2 create the extended door jamb. Use a measuring tape to record the distance from the drywall to the door edge to determine the length.