Removing door frame

[Browny1982]

Afternoon all, newbie here!!

Just moved into my first house and mrs wants to get rid of a door frame between corridor and kitchen. The house is a victorian one, but the door way is in a single storey extension with a mono-pitched roof, not sure when the extension was done.

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• Browny1982
• 4 Feb 2015
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I have removed the door frame and this is what I now have

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• Browny1982
• 4 Feb 2015
• 1

My Mrs also want the part above the door taken out. I thought that the weight of the roof would be supported on the external walls, and that there would be a smallish beam holding up some brickwork. But this is an 8x12.

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It looks pretty important!! But isnt that solid, I.e has slight give if pushed.

Any ideas???

Thanks

Steve

 

[ree]

You have removed the architraves on one side of the frame.
The door lining is still attached to the frame. Two legs & a head.


Cut the paint before gently prising off the remaining architraves.
Remove all pictures and chattels out of harms and dust's way.

Saw the lining head into two halves. Gently prise them out.
Next, Gently prise the lining legs away from the frame.


Now, the fixing positions of the frame - probably large nails into fixing blocks in the wall brickwork - will be revealed. One nail head can be seen in pic 2.
You can pull the nails out and release the frame - or insert a hacksaw blade between the frame legs and the wall to cut the nails.

If the frame is somehow fixed above the ceiling come back here.

How do you propose to make good the opening?

 

[Browny1982]

Thanks Ree, have removed the frame completely! See above. Advise much appreciated. We are going to get the kitchen and hallway re plastered!

 

[ree]

I'm glad that you've done that. Well done.

But i'm confused by the old text and pics being suddenly replaced by new pics which actually seem to show a different doorway - it doesn't matter just so long as you've accomplished what you posted for. But it certainly puzzles me.

 

[Browny1982]

Cheers Ree, I tried to edit the post after i had, taken the door frame out, to add in what I had done but for some reason the other bit disappeared.

Same door frame, but pic taken from the other side!! The plaster came away in that side, so it was easier to expose that beam

 

[Browny1982]

Double post - sorry

 

[ree]

So the 8" x 12" has been removed? It wasn't present in the first pics - was it?
I only noticed a lining head.

 

[oldbutnotdead]

That 8 x 12 will probably be supporting the end wall of the house and possibly the upstairs floor as well (depends which way the joists are running). It is also supporting the wall above those side doors (you can see the top of a smaller timber mortised into the big timber).

It may well have some movement to it but don't take it out without putting something structural across the gap- without it (over time) the brickwork above will probably sag and could fail quite spectacularly.

 

[Browny1982]

No the 8 x 12 has been left in, it was definetely in the 1st pics.

I think that it will be left well alone!! Thanks for everyone's help!

Much appreciated!!

Steve