Cutting A Steel Door

There are wood door supports within the door that add additional rigidity.

Cutting a steel door.

The type of blade that is chosen. Steel used for a door is the same as steel used in any other application. Common home improvement projects that require altering. The window size cannot interfere with the structural integrity of the metal door and must be sized accordingly.

You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Enough to squeeze by it and you could force it all the way open but it was rubbing the floor pretty goo. Hot metal chips will fly. We purchased a house in 2011.

So generally the best way to cut the door to fit your space is to work with the bottom first. When we moved in the front door wouldn t open all the way. Cutting the hole for the window in the metal door is slightly more complicated then a wood door but simple with the proper tools. The exterior metal cladding typically is only 1 16 inch thick.

The interior of the door is made up of solid wood framing with fillers and some void space. It drug the floor at about 70 degrees from full open. Cutting metal clad doors can be done with a metal blade on a circular saw. See more in the website article.

How to cut and resize a steel clad entry door. The thickness may differ but. They are not solid metal. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter.

Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. When a home improvement project calls for cutting a hole in a metal door do it yourself and save. You can cut the top of the door to make it shorter but then you will have to reposition the hinges to move the door up on the jamb. Cutting the top off a steel door depends on one thing.

Using a table saw with a fine blade is one method of getting your outside metal door cut to size. It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool.