- Joined
- 21 Dec 2017
- Messages
- 236
- Reaction score
- 47
- Country
Hi all,
I'm currently refurbishing a downstairs room into a shower utility room.
The room is an extension onto the house, so the doorway is through the original external wall of the house (block inner leaf, outer leaf is those sort of stonework looking irregular bricks). This was done as a plasterboard lined arch way (no door)
Naturally, now it will be a shower room, I want to put a door in instead. However the opening is only about 760 wide so to fit a standard 762 door obviously I need to widen the opening by a couple of inches. The lintel is plenty wide enough to accommodate this maintaining the minimum 150mm supported each end
Question is - what's the best way to go about this indoors?
Would you use a sabre saw with a brick cutting blade or chain drill holes and then chisel? Or something else?
I'm currently refurbishing a downstairs room into a shower utility room.
The room is an extension onto the house, so the doorway is through the original external wall of the house (block inner leaf, outer leaf is those sort of stonework looking irregular bricks). This was done as a plasterboard lined arch way (no door)
Naturally, now it will be a shower room, I want to put a door in instead. However the opening is only about 760 wide so to fit a standard 762 door obviously I need to widen the opening by a couple of inches. The lintel is plenty wide enough to accommodate this maintaining the minimum 150mm supported each end
Question is - what's the best way to go about this indoors?
Would you use a sabre saw with a brick cutting blade or chain drill holes and then chisel? Or something else?