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Posted by DanG on January 14, 2007, 11:08 am
I would love to have you show me an 1 3/8 interior commercial door
on a quality job - hospital, school, church, airport, high rise
office, etc. I can, however, show you several 1 3/8 residential
exterior doors.
I think the issue still has to do with what the OP was trying to
do. My statements do not change.
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DanG
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valentine@okchorale.org (local)
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> | Residential doors tend to be 1 3/8" thick, commercial doors
> tend
> | to be 1 3/4". |
>
> actually
> exterior doors (residential or commercial) are 1 3/4" thick
> interior doors (residential or commercial) are 1 3/8"thick
>
>
>
>
> | Doors should be beveled on both the hinge and strike sides. 1
> 3/8
> | doors are more forgiving about bevel. An old carpenter adage
> | sizes the gaps around the door as a dime on top and a nickel
> on
> | the sides.
>
>
>
> The bevel and cut are easiest done with a Rockwell
> | porta plane, but these are too expensive for one door.
>
>
> wouldn't any brand planer work?
> or maybe order the door beveled already (instead of square).
>
>
>
>
> Making the
> | hinge mortises line up with the jamb will be the hardest part.
> | The mortises in the jamb will have to be set deeper if you go
> to
> | the 1 3/4 door and the existing screw holes will need to be
> | filled. The hinges may need to be replace with larger hinges
> or
> | adding an additional hinge if the door weight is very
> different.
> | The strike will have to be re-set also. If this is your first
> | attempt, it will certainly be easier to replace the door and
> jamb
> | with a prehung unit or stay with the same thickness door.
> |
> | Hope this helps make some decisions.
> |
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | DanG
> | A live Singing Valentine quartet,
> | a sophisticated and elegant way to say I LOVE YOU!
> | valentine@okchorale.org (local)
> | http://www.singingvalentines.com/ (national)
> |
> |
> | >I want to put a new exterior door from my hall to an unheated
> | >enclosed
> | > porch. I want to get a double pane glass, but I don't want
> to
> | > replace the
> | > jam with an opening width of exactly 30 inches. The door's
> | > width on the
> | > outside measures 29.75 inches and inside measures a little
> less
> | > than 30
> | > inches. Thus, the door's edge is beveled. The existing
> door is
> | > 1 and 3/8's
> | > inches thick. A new door would be 1.75 inches.
> | >
> | > The door has to be narrower than the jam width. Should I
> have
> | > the door's
> | > outside edge beveled like the old one or should I have the
> door
> | > trimmed on
> | > both sides about a quarter of an inch total?
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
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