made a balls of taking door frame out!!

[jonbwoy]

hi, ive just bought my 1st house so im all new to this, its a fairly old house, thought it would be a good idea to remove old door n casing, wish i had never touched it!!
anyway removed it very badly for all the render n plaster to fall away from brickwork, door frame mustve been original from wen it was 1st built. bought a door casing, but how do i fix it? do i drill into brickwork, there was 3 slots of old wood holding original, with an inch gap between doorframe n wall, held on by nails?? also a row of house bricks resting on door frame which nearly fell on my head so i now have a rather large gap as well?
also wen frames fitted how do i repair the render n plaster?? its a mess n jus crumbles away around sides, do i render it again then skim it? or do i need to completly remove all the rubble n start from scratch, please help!!

 

[DAZB]

Here's a guide for you for the casing :

http://www.thediyworld.co.uk/Fitting_internal_doors_casings.html

and another for the plastering :

http://www.how2plaster.com/

good luck.

 

[samohtom]

Just to clarify did you remove the door casing (architrave) or the door lining/frame (so there literally just a hole in the wall? There should have been some sort of concrete/steel lintel holding the brickwork up above the door frame, unless for example you have two doors right next to each other. In this case the lintels would overlap and you may have a row of bricks just mortared in underneath the higher one, as I found in my flat. You should be able to pick up a lintel and bag of mortar from a builders merchant if there wasn't one(!).

Assuming you need to install a new door frame there's more than one way to sort the gaps. I've just replaced all seven in my flat and found the easiest way to get the new frame in fixed/shimmed as you want it (screw frame fixings are good as you can move the frame in (but not out) by tightening the screw to a point. Then you can either fill with expanding foam (fire rated if needed), decoraters caulk, intumescent sealant (for fire doors), mortar and probably a number of other things. As I'm no plasterer I've used mortar in places and just raked it with the edge of a scraper before it's set to provide a key for the plaster. Remember to wet the area before applying the mortar (damp brush/spray it with water).