Removing Old Door Trim Inside your Front Door : DIY Home Improvement

Repairing your home can be both costly and time consuming. Fortunately there are plenty of experts out there willing to share their home repair knowledge with you. In these videos, our home repair expert will show you how you can tackle some basic home repairs that might at first glance look too difficult to attempt. You will also learn a few tricks for improving the look of your home such as building and installing a custom bar support.

Repairs to doors and windows are some of the easiest home repairs you can do. Our expert will show you a simple way to fix a broken window by removing it and then installing a new piece of glass in the old frame. You will also learn how to replace exterior door trim, a repair that not only improves the look of your house, but also helps cut down on heating and cooling costs.

"I’m Lee Wallace. I have a degree in architecture, I have about ten years construction experience in the field, and today we’re going to replace the door trim. The door’s already been replaced and we have this old trim on here, some of it which has built up a lot of paint over the years. What we want to do is just begin by taking off the old trim, and let me show you how to do that. What you want to do first is you want to cut along the trim edge on both sides, and you make sure you cut all the way through all the old caulking, because you don’t want to peel back the wall all the way, especially when you have years of paint- just cut it like that. And then your going to pry it off- just get yourself a flat bar and hammer. It should come off fairly easy, if you cut all the way through the trim. And just continue all the way up the door until you have all the trim off. And don’t forget to remove any nails that are coming from the door frame or the wall. And when you pull out the ones in the wall, you want to pry from the door frame, so you don’t punch a hole in the door. If it doesn’t come out, the easiest thing to do is just bend it over, but make sure it’s below the surface of the wall."