Hello
I'd like some tips and advice as I plan to raise a doorway where I removed an old door frame to align with the height of a new door in the adjacent wall. The doorway I want to raise is 96cm wide and has horizontal raw wood planks nailed on both sides above the door opening. There is a horizontal beam above the doorway that extends into the walls on either side above the door. Can I cut out 3cm from this to achieve the same height (roughly) for the trim and ensure that the door leaf of the new door next to it doesn't hit the top edge of the new trim I'll be putting in the opening I want to raise? The house is from the 1930s, and I don't have much in the way of construction plans available.
I'd like some tips and advice as I plan to raise a doorway where I removed an old door frame to align with the height of a new door in the adjacent wall. The doorway I want to raise is 96cm wide and has horizontal raw wood planks nailed on both sides above the door opening. There is a horizontal beam above the doorway that extends into the walls on either side above the door. Can I cut out 3cm from this to achieve the same height (roughly) for the trim and ensure that the door leaf of the new door next to it doesn't hit the top edge of the new trim I'll be putting in the opening I want to raise? The house is from the 1930s, and I don't have much in the way of construction plans available.
I would have opened up the wall more and put in a new beam in the right place.
It will probably be fine to notch out, but in such an old house it's hard to know what is connected to what and what is affected.
It will probably be fine to notch out, but in such an old house it's hard to know what is connected to what and what is affected.
If it is a load-bearing wall, what you refer to as a horizontal beam is a beam that transfers the weight from above to columns on either side of the door. To avoid risking structural issues, you should not cut into it but instead raise it and ensure that the load transfer to the columns continues to function.
Intervention in load-bearing structures usually requires that a building notification regarding it has been approved by the municipality.
Intervention in load-bearing structures usually requires that a building notification regarding it has been approved by the municipality.
I tore off a couple of boards and it looks like this according to the images below. I don't know much about house construction but nothing seems to be offset in that sense, right? It's a 50x125 stud plus a thinner board nailed on as seen in the picture, set into the standing posts on the side of the doorway... maybe it stabilizes the wall in some way, but you should be able to either remove it and put in a new stud at the correct height or notch it at the bottom a max of 3 cm, right?
Join two 45x120 and attach it. Super easy and then you have it stable for all eternity.
Optimizing will just take more time and effort.
Optimizing will just take more time and effort.
I don't quite get it, do you mean tearing out the existing ones and putting in new ones at the correct height?AXS said:
Combine two 45x120 and put them in place. Super easy and you'll have it stable for all time.
Optimizing will just take more time and effort.
Thanks, that's what I felt when I removed the raw paneling, but as I said, I know too little about house construction to just start cutting away in load-bearing walls... it's crooked enough as it is in this house 😆Matti_75 said:
Yes.F felbjo said:
As the hype says they probably don't bear anything, but nice to have something to fasten to. What might it take, 10 minutes to put in a new one?
Jackpot!