How to Cut Your Interior Hollow Core Door Properly (Like a Pro)

After cutting your interior hollow core door to clear a rug you will be left without blocking. This makes your door not as solid and I show how we replace this quick and easily.

[tedmcdonald]

Great videos guys, keep up the good work 😎🛠️😎🛠️😎

[campbellbuilt]

By the way, paint the ends of the door. Painting will seal the door and will stop swelling in humid months.

[stephenjon]

I got really nervous with your fingers an inch away from that blade, especially when the timber lifted off the table slightly. 🖖🏻

[orlandoo]

Wondering if you can do the same for the width? Like an inch off each side?

[cdurkinz]

I've got an odd one in a custom home right now I'm replacing all the original golden oak stuff with new doors/trim/casings, a couple of the doors are odd sizes. The new doors have panels and whatnot but are still hollow core. Trying to figure out if it's possible to remove a section from the center to shorten a door and keep the panel intact. Obviously there will be a line there from the cut mark which I'll have to fill somehow but I need to shorten a door from the standard 80 inches to 67 inches, which is basically the exact height of the inlaid panel so if I take whatever 8 inches off the bottom and 5 off the top it wouldn't look right. Not sure how to take from the middle though.

[JenniferCole-chgz]

What kind of blade did you use? finer tooth than cutting a 2X4?