When carrying out repairs, you need to carefully approach the various calculations. For example, a doorway may have different dimensions depending on the design of a particular room. Therefore, when replacing door structures, it is important to correctly calculate everything. What to consider?
Size matters
As you know, doors - interior or entrance - play an important role in any interior. Accordingly, it is necessary to approach their installation correctly. In order not to get into a situation where you have to work on finalizing the wall decoration, you should determine in time what size the doorway is. When choosing designs, it should be remembered that different manufacturers offer different solutions. So, most domestic and foreign brands offer systems under the doorway, the dimensions of which are 2000 mm high with a width of 600 mm to 800 mm. The designs of some manufacturers have a height of 1900 mm and a width of 550 mm. At the same time, the thickness of the boxes also varies.
Possible problems and inconsistencies
Such a variety of solutions suggests that, when choosing input structures, you need totake into account the parameters that the doorway has: dimensions and its design features. Otherwise, several problems may arise:
- The block simply won't fit into the doorway in the bearing wall, which will lead to the need to widen the opening.
- Any increase is a huge amount of dusty and dirty work, during which the entire profile will undergo deformation. And this promises only an extra waste of time, nerves and money.
- If you build a doorway, the dimensions of which were calculated incorrectly, you may encounter the following problem: the wooden casing will not block the entrance in width or height, and this will affect the fact that you will have to perform a number of more works. Accordingly, this is also an extra expense.
How to calculate?
So, to determine the size of the doorway of the front door, you need to proceed from the following indicators:
- width and height of the selected canvas;
- thickness of boxes and their width;
- width of wooden architraves;
- presence of a wooden threshold.
Let's say your door has the following dimensions - 2000 mm high and 800 mm wide with a frame thickness of 25 mm. To determine the size of the opening, you need to add up the width and thickness indicators plus the gap between the frame and the door - approximately 20 mm on each side. That is, the ideal width will be approximately 880 mm. Most of the models offered today will fit under such an opening. The height is calculated in the same way, only a gap is added to the height figure from above and below -it turns out 2050 mm for a door without a threshold and 2080 mm if a threshold is planned. As for the thickness, the most commonly offered door frame designs are 75 mm - they are designed for typical houses. However, there are exceptions to any rule, and therefore an addition may be required if the thickness of the walls of the opening is not the same.
Thus, the preparation and careful calculations of the doorway is a very responsible job that will allow you to complete the installation more correctly and faster, and most importantly - without additional financial costs.
