I just put in a new pre hung door in one of my bedrooms. It was a closet, because I've never installed a door before so didn't want my first installation to be the door TO the room and thus reveal embarassing flaws.
ANYHOO
So I put the new door in the rough opening and... Low and behold, the jambs in my older house (built in the very early 50s) were 1" THICKER than the prehung door jamb. So I get to "trim it out" because they don't make jambs that size anymore.
So my rant is,
why would Home Depot (and whoever) plop a store down in the middle of an established, built-in-the-days-of-actual-plaster-walls neighborhood and only carry doors premade for drywall? And furthermore, why don't the mills make the deeper jambs for those of us with older houses? They KNOW most of these doors are going into older homes!!! Oh well. I got it in, and there will be some puttying to do (wife's job
) but GEEZ. I eagerly do not look forward to trimming the room's entrance door the same way. Oh yeah, I need to make my own 1"x1" trim for it because nobody makes actual 1x1 - it's all 3/4". But that's another rant.
BTW it went in way easier than my first attempt at a new door - on another bedroom I installed just the door... Chiseling out the hinges and all that crap. Forget that, prehung is where it's at.
At least I got to exercise my power miter box and pneumatic nailgun. That makes the trimwork
so much easier than it was...