We're renovating our house and approaching the point when I'll need to deal with the internal doors. We want to fit oak (or oak veneer) doors and want the framing to match. I had been looking into replacing the door linings (which are currently painted white) with oak or oak veneer ones, but...
I just had a couple of fire door linings replaced as they were not deep enough after I overboarded the stud wall they are set in. The original linings were made with 30mm thick timber, and I only realised this evening that the new linings are made of 20mm thick timber. One of the doors was also...
Hi all,
I am looking to build a stud wall into an archway to take a set of double doors. Just want to check what size I should make the space in the studwork to take the doors please.
The doors I have are glazed, 1981mm(h) 1524mm(w) (both doors) 35mm(D).
I have a 10mm Pairmaker to go between...
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I am looking to put double/french doors into an archway at the bottom of our stairs leading into the lounge. The existing is a brick wall at one end and the end of the wall between the lounge and stairway.
The space is 1800mm wide x 2160mm high.
The width of the wall it will butt up to is...
I have been struggling with how to start and go about building the frame/door lining for a door that needs to have a notch taken out of it to fit under the stairs!
I iwould appreciate someone who might have done something simialr to run me through the steps.
Have a fairly good idea of how to...
I’m Building an angled understairs door liner for a wc in the opening.
For the angled section of the frame can I just make use of the angled section in the frame work as is ? (Then pack it out to the depth of the frame after?)
reason being I want to keep the notch off the door as small as...
I have a stud wall that has finished depth of pretty much spot on 100mm
I have planed timber door lining that is about 108mm
is 4mm on each side too much to ask of skimcoat?
should i be thinking of getting 2-3mm off the door lining timber or is there smarter ways to do this?
I have some brickwork partition which will have dot and dab plasterboard taking wall thickness to around 150mm. As I have loft conversion door need to be replaced with FD30 model. I can source tons of 132mm door lining but nothing over that width.
Any chance where I can find it without...
i`m in the middle of full renovation and because i`m going to convert my loft build regulation want all the door to be fire rated. As Next week the plaster will come down I have to buy and install the door frame to make sure the plaster will align with it.
As I never purchases a door lining...
we are converting our garage and will need to replace the door and lining (the original door + lining never fitted) however it appears the off the shelf linings are not wide enough.
On the assumption of 100mm thermalite, 12mm boards, dabs 10-20mm walls a little out and 3mm skim, making the wide...
So I've fitted a new door lining as old one had had it and it's also been re boarded ad plastered but it's leaving me with very little spare for the skirting lol this picture will help
Little conundrum here.
2 doors next to each other (well about 300mm between but near enough). One door opens inwards into the room, the other opens outwards (into the ensuite). Doors are the same height but of course the door linings are different heights on the underside of the top rail (due...