How long to leave brickwork before door installation????

[willcrick]

I have some new bi-fold jen-weld doors (2100 x 2100mm) to hang into a new opening (into a victorian brickwork wall where there used to be double doors). The new brickwork is a 215x215mm pier on the left, a new lintel (with one course of brickwork above) and some bats on the right set into the original wall.

The carpenter has suddenly told me that i need to leave the brickwork for 1 week before hanging the doors, as the doors will crack the new brickwork - he didnt tell me this last week!!!! That means i will have a hole in my wall over christmas when i am away, a perfect burglar tempatation!

How long should i let the brickwork to go off before putting in the new doors? I was going to leave it for 48 hours (over two nights and one day) - is that enough??

thanks

Will

 

[carpenter les]

hi , if the mortar is dry, which i suspect it is , then the door and frame can be fitted

 

[Thermo]

providing the temperatures not dropped then a couple of days should do the job. sounds like he doesnt want to do it before christmas