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What saw blade should I use to cut a door?

A circular saw makes a great door cutter. Make sure your saw blade is sharp and has a minimum of 18 teeth. Hold the circular saw against the edge of the door as if you're ready to cut. With the blade teeth held just to the waste side of the scored line, mark the masking tape along the opposite edge of the base plate.

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Next, score the cutting lines 1/16 in. deep with a utility knife. We like to clamp a metal straightedge to the door on top of the masking tape along the cutting line. This helps to guide the knife, and then if the knife slips, it only scars the waste side of the cut. You don’t need to score the underside of the door. First, mark the clearance needed on the door. Then pull out the hinge pins and lay the door on padded sawhorses. Mark the cutting line on the top face and edges of the door and apply a 6-in. wide strip of masking tape along the line to protect the door’s finish from the circular saw’s base plate.

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A circular saw makes a great door cutter. Make sure your saw blade is sharp and has a minimum of 18 teeth. Hold the circular saw against the edge of the door as if you’re ready to cut. With the blade teeth held just to the waste side of the scored line, mark the masking tape along the opposite edge of the base plate. Position a straight saw guide at this mark, parallel to the cutting line, and clamp it at both ends. A 3/4-in. thick guide is thin enough to provide clearance under the saw’s motor. Hold the saw against the cutting guide and check the position of the blade’s teeth. They should be just outside of the scored cutting line. Make the cut slowly. The scored line will stop the splintering. The bottom side of the door won’t splinter because the saw teeth cut up into the wood. Lightly sand all the edges along the new door bottom to soften them. Once you finish trimming the bottom of your door and sanding out the rough edges where you cut it, it’s time for the final step in the process, and maybe the easiest. With those steps done, you can hang the door back where it was and open and close it with no interference from the carpet.

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How do you give away wood?

Where can I donate firewood? Call up local food banks and ask if they take firewood donations. Call local churches or other types of aid organizations and ask if they take firewood donations. More items... •

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It is that time of year again, when people are taking down dead trees as part of summer property maintenance and then they ask us…

Dear Don’t Move Firewood,

Is there a place I can donate my wood in the Rockford, Ilinois area? / Is there anyone in the San Francisco, CA area that takes firewood donations? / I live in Fort Washington MD and I have firewood I want to donate. Where can I go?

Sincerely,

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Dear TWMFOs,

Every single town and area is different, so it is best to “let your fingers do the walking” as the old phone book ads used to say. Once you’ve positively confirmed that moving firewood in your area is legal in the first place using our Firewood Regulations Summary Map, I suggest the following:

Call up local food banks and ask if they take firewood donations

Call local churches or other types of aid organizations and ask if they take firewood donations Use internet searches for the word “wood bank” and the names of towns in your immediate vicinity (i.e. Springfield Wood Bank, etc) to see if there is any mention of a wood bank anywhere near you.

Thanks for having good intentions with that extra firewood!

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Editor’s Note: we edit, shorten, and make anonymous all Dear Don’t Move Firewood entries- but they are all derived from real emails or Facebook posts!

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