Tiny door

[angelsephemera]

I have just noticed the bathroon door in my condo unit is tiny- 5'8" at most, it give the bathroom a cave aspect- no good at all! Why did they build it so small?

Anyway maybe I need to heighten- I guess that means tearing the frame out and putting in a new one: it's not load bearing so will there be any potential problems? Will there be a concrete lintel?

[lopburi3]

Often there is about 6" raised threshold on bathrooms to keep waters inside and bottom of doors from getting wet so a 5'8" door would be about 6' or more in wall.

[transam]

Many places I have been have this daft low door for the loo. When my place was being built I told them I don't want the door size you want to fit. Soooooooo all my doors are the same.

There probably is no lintel so no probs fitting another frame.

[eyecatcher]

Many places I have been have this daft low door for the loo. When my place was being built I told them I don't want the door size you want to fit. Soooooooo all my doors are the same.

There probably is no lintel so no probs fitting another frame.

Probably to me is like the word assumption.

And assumption is the mother of all f##k UPS.

You need to check,it will not be like a uk prestressed lintel if anything an insitu ring beam they use across windows and doors and even the door jambs.

You are in a condo so its concrete floors and beans. These will be set at 3m or 3.3m above your floor so there will be an amount of masonry over 1.2m that is above your doorframe.

I suggest you break away some plaster to investigate,

Then give me a call, I am sure I can resolve a lot of your questions without you having to ask on this forum at every stage of your job.

[angelsephemera]

Thanks all,

If I keep on getting your advice- I will feel like I should be paying you eyecatcher, (its good advice)

Edited June 12, 2014 by angelsephemera

[eyecatcher]

Haha, thankyou. As with every other thread on the forum there are replies from members who have actually been there, done that, learnt by mistakes, learnt by other peoples mistakes.

And there are those who just anecdote their only or a friends experience.

It all makes for an interesting read whatever.

You will learn who has acquired whatever specialist knowledge it happens to be over time and who to ignore.

My advice and time is free to you!

[transam]

My place has noooooooooooo lintels over the internal doors. They put the door frames in and bricked around the frames........

For sure not good practice but that is how they did it.

I was in house conversions in the UK way back and know how it should be done....

[angelsephemera]

Yes, suck it and see.