Results 1 to 6 of 6
Thread: Door Jamb to Wall
Hybrid View
-
05-14-2012, 02:37 PM #1Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- May 2012
- Posts
- 36
Door Jamb to Wall
When placing doors on a floor plan how much room do you leave between the edge of a door and a perpendicular wall? As the picture shows, I usually go 4 inches. This allows for a stud and a jack (3 inches) and 1 inches for the door jamb. I arrive at 1 inch because the framers usually add 2 inches to the actual door size for the rough opening so I split that in half--1 inch on each side of the door.
I only use this method when space is at a premium, but I was just curious how do other drafters do it? Should I be adding more? Less?
Thanks for your time.
-
05-14-2012, 03:12 PM #2
I agree with your approach.
D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
San Diego, Ca.
Chief X-5 w/ Win 7
Asus P6T X58 ATX Core i7
Intel Core i7 920
6GB (3X2) DDR3 1600
NVIDIA GeForce 580 GTX
The videos we watch are not 100% gold, but if we find a gold nugget, the time spent viewing has a value.
We can please some of the people some of the time, but we can't please all the people all of the time..... but I will keep trying.
If you are interested in keeping abreast of any new videos, please subscribe to my channel at YOUTUBE...... channel is ds hall
-
05-14-2012, 07:51 PM #3Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- Mar 2011
- Location
- Wasilla, Alaska
- Posts
- 799
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
Chief Architect X3-X6
Windows 7
I5 Quad core 8 GB
NVIDEA Ge Force GT430
-
05-16-2012, 07:47 PM #4Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- May 2012
- Posts
- 36
Good point. Higher end houses usually have more extravagant trim details that require more room. Unfortunately, I don't get many jobs like those, so I'm always watching square footage and overall cost.
-
05-17-2012, 07:48 AM #5
Something else to think about depending on the design is light switch placement and how much room is needed for the required box size. Nevertheless, the door location is usually the controlling factor. Bathrooms with large mirrors on walls and a door or doorway in close proximity to vanity cabinets is one example deserving a little extra planning on framing placement.
Curt Johnson
X5
Puget Systems Custom Computer, Win 7 Pro 64-bit SP1, 3.3Ghz Intel Core i5 2500K Quad, 8 GB Kingston DDR3-1333 Ram, Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD App Drive, WD 500 GB Caviar Blue SATA 6 Gb/s Data Drive, EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB VC, Antec 650W PS, Asus p8P67 Pro REV 3.0 Motherboard
-
05-18-2012, 08:45 PM #6
I do 4" as well unless I am doing a house that will have larger molding then I do 6".