Dan Mages
10-27-2008, 6:37 PM
I encountered one heck of a hack job in our new house. The past owner did not want the French doors in the dining room that led to the back porch. To remedy the situation, the hack decided to pull the door off its hinges, leave the door frame in place, put in a few studs to hold the exterior sheathing, shingled the outside and then build a false wall in front of the door to cover up the opening. I think it would have been much easier to pull out the door frame and do it right... but whats done is done.
To my question. I have a perfectly fine standard 60" door frame in place. I can procure doors from a local building materials reuse center for roughly the same cost as tearing it out, framing it in, and finishing it correctly. I can buy the doors with or without a frame. Am I asking for trouble by trying to make new doors fit the existing frame? Would it be easer to make the doors work in the old frame or trying to square up a new frame?
Thanks!!
Dan
To my question. I have a perfectly fine standard 60" door frame in place. I can procure doors from a local building materials reuse center for roughly the same cost as tearing it out, framing it in, and finishing it correctly. I can buy the doors with or without a frame. Am I asking for trouble by trying to make new doors fit the existing frame? Would it be easer to make the doors work in the old frame or trying to square up a new frame?
Thanks!!
Dan