Plasterboard sits proud of door liner after plastering...now what?!

[dave1814]

Morning,

We have just had one of our rooms boarded and plastered, however now the boards sit proud of the original door liner. Whats the best way to tackle this issue?

I have been told to get some wood to bring the liner out so that it would meet the architrave (when fitted), however where would you hinge the door? If you put the hinge on the new wood the door would be brought out and wouldnt close back to the original door stop correctly. Or would you leave the hinges where they are and just put a thinner piece of wood to meet the plaster?

Or...do i replace the liner (sounds messy and ive had enough of mess in that room with stripping all the plaster off the brick!)

Anyway, i've attached some pics to make things a bit clearer.

thanks!
Dave

 

[Gerrydelasel]

I have been told to get some wood to bring the liner out so that it would meet the architrave (when fitted), however where would you hinge the door?

Yes you can do that. You treat the extra bit of stripwood as part of the architrave, not as part of the door frame. i.e. you set the stripwood back by about 5mm from the edge of the frame (this is called a 'reveal'), and set the architrave back by another 5mm, so you're creating one big layered architrave. Hinges go in the usual place; what you do with the stripwood/architrave has no effect on the door position.
(Since your gap looks quite big you might prefer to use two or even three layers of stripwood to do this, each set back by another 5mm)

Alternatively you can fit the architrave and then simply fill the gap, either with filler, or with a slightly-larger dowel glued into the gap. The latter is good if you're going for a classical architrave rather than a generic modern one, as I did here (that thin strip on the inside of the architrave is actually a dowel glued into the gap).

Something I did when the gap was big (like yours) was to use 12mm stripwood (actually MDF) and 12mm dowel to build up the architrave like this. The dowel is purely cosmetic of course, because I like the Victorian look.

There are lots of ways to skin a cat, you don't have to stick to the generic bare-minumum-effort-hairy-arse-builder method. For example you can use several layers of MDF to create an art deco look.

 

[dave1814]

Thanks for that detailed response!

If I can get away without moving the hinges forward it will be much easier as I wont have to bring the door stops forward either.

thanks,
Dave