Hi all,
I am building a stud wall, and in there I will be putting in one of those fairly standard beech finish office doors (the wall is downstairs in my office!). I haven't seen pre-made door linings for those on sale, so I would have thought that I need to make my own. That doesn't bother me, but I have some questions about measurements:
I am happy with the wall building process - I am going to use 38*63 CLS for the studwork, and on top of that I will use 9.5mm thick plasterboard. This means that the total wall thickness will be 63 + (2x 9.5) = 82mm thick.
If I make the door lining out of the same sized CLS as the wall, it is not going to sit flush with the finished wall opening - it will be 9.5mm too "shallow" on the inside and outside of the doorway (because of the additional thickness from the plasterboard), and therefore I won't be able to nail architrave flat onto it.
The next size up of CLS (that I could make the lining out of) is 38 x 89mm, so that means that my lining would be 2.5mm thicker on either side of the opening, and then there would be a gap behind the architrave where it is supposed to meet the plasterboard.
Am I missing something here, or do I need to use 38 x 89 CLS for the lining, and rip 7-ish mm off there so that it sits flush to the plasterboard?
I have just worked out that if I use 12.5mm thick plasterboard, then that is 88mm thickness in total, which works fine for a 38 x 89mm CLS casing, but what if I am using 9.5mm thick?
Thanks in advance for any advice on this!
I am building a stud wall, and in there I will be putting in one of those fairly standard beech finish office doors (the wall is downstairs in my office!). I haven't seen pre-made door linings for those on sale, so I would have thought that I need to make my own. That doesn't bother me, but I have some questions about measurements:
I am happy with the wall building process - I am going to use 38*63 CLS for the studwork, and on top of that I will use 9.5mm thick plasterboard. This means that the total wall thickness will be 63 + (2x 9.5) = 82mm thick.
If I make the door lining out of the same sized CLS as the wall, it is not going to sit flush with the finished wall opening - it will be 9.5mm too "shallow" on the inside and outside of the doorway (because of the additional thickness from the plasterboard), and therefore I won't be able to nail architrave flat onto it.
The next size up of CLS (that I could make the lining out of) is 38 x 89mm, so that means that my lining would be 2.5mm thicker on either side of the opening, and then there would be a gap behind the architrave where it is supposed to meet the plasterboard.
Am I missing something here, or do I need to use 38 x 89 CLS for the lining, and rip 7-ish mm off there so that it sits flush to the plasterboard?
I have just worked out that if I use 12.5mm thick plasterboard, then that is 88mm thickness in total, which works fine for a 38 x 89mm CLS casing, but what if I am using 9.5mm thick?
Thanks in advance for any advice on this!
