Doorways and bricks

[disastermovie]

Probably just me who is as thick as a brick

When I look at UPVC back doors a popular size seems to be 840mm wide. But when I look at bricks they are 215 wide and so with a 10mm mortar joint I cannot get 840 to be a round number of bricks in the gap.

890mm gives me a nice round number of bricks (four bricks wide with three mortar joints). 840 gives me three bricks and a nasty extra bit that doesn't look right.

Who makes the wrong size thing? The brick maker or the door maker?

 

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A good few years ago, the plastic door makers realised that they can save £5 per door just my making it 840mm instead of 890mm.

This caused a lot of broken bricks - especially when bricks did not cut properly the first time, so there was lots of waste

There were complaints from builders and brick makers, but nothing got done.

There was talk of making the bricks smaller to fit the door frames, but then the window makers refused to make their windows smaller to suit smaller bricks, and so nothing actually got done

 

[disastermovie]

Typical, left hand not knowing what right hand is doing.

Door makers need to get out more and see what's on the streets. People aren't getting any smaller and instead of cutting 50mm off the width they should be adding it. But then that would make 940mm doors and my bricks would still not fit.

Been googling and some enterprising door company are making made to measure doors. They are the ones that deserve to thrive.

But I'd also like to see some company doing made to measure bricks so I can fit windows in too. I had a window made up that was 600mm wide. How am I expected to fit that into my wall? Made to measure bricks, that's the answer, somebody is going to make millions