French Doors Installed Too Low?

[Ben-Ja-Min]

I had a window converted into French doors last month. A builder doing work at my property has mentioned that they are installed too low and the white trim should be higher that the floor level.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Notch7]

Judging by the jambs they are open out.

Which confuses me as the bottom seems wrong, maybe it’s a low level threshold for disabled access.

It looks like the back of the threshold is below top of screed and there’s maybe 15mm of tile to go on, so it could be 25mm out…..and given the door set is probably fitted to underside of lintel means the door set is 25mm too tall.

You need to mark across where top of floor finish will end up.

 

[Ben-Ja-Min]

Looking at other photos of French doors the bottom does look different.

Pencil line will be the height of the finished floor. 5mm self levelling compound and 14mm engineered oak.

 

[Notch7]

Looking at other photos of French doors the bottom does look different.

Pencil line will be the height of the finished floor. 5mm self levelling compound and 14mm engineered oak.

So you’ve got a disabled low level cill / threshold

Maybe you could get a local joinery shop or a carpenter to machine up a tapered oak threshold to sit on the grey part, then butt the oak floor upto it.