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05-14-2012, 07:51 PM #3Registered User Promoted
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I was a framing sub for a number of years before becoming a GC and also a designer. Production houses we usually framed the rough opening exactly 3 inches from the corner, or 4 inches to the actual door as you suggest...
Custom houses and jobs where you have more room to work with, I would recommend 6 inches to RO. At 3 inches there's a chance some wider mouldings won't fit, and even if it does fit or you use standard casing, the painting/staining work at that corner is often hard to do right and ends up a little sloppy.
Just my $.02Michael
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