How to Handle a Rough Opening Bi-Fold Door

While constructing any home, there are various apertures made by cutting and edging for things like windows, doors, ceilings, stairways etc. The constructors should make the apertures very carefully in order to avoid the rough openings and unequal sizes or placements.

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One important type of door installed in the house is the bi-fold doors. People install them to make cupboards and closets. Today there are many styles of bi-fold doors available in market. They come in wooden, louvered, mirrored etc. These doors when opened allow us to reach our contents that we want to use, easily.

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If these doors did not have a proper rough opening then there will occur many troubles. If the rough opening is too big then the door will look uneven and if they made the opening too small then the door will never close. The measurements of the correct rough opening depend on the thickness and kind of matter you will adopt to make a proper finishing of the bi-fold door.

Generally, the bi-fold doors are available without a frame. You can sling them directly over the complete door opening. The typical thickness of the drywall is ½ inch. The trimming done to the thickness of the drywall is up to only ¾ inch.

Now affix the breadth of the complete door, the broadness of your complete item and the advocated clearance. For example for a twenty four inch door rose in a drywall aperture, plus twenty four width with the thickness of one inch on two sides of the drywall opening and ½ inch space on two sides so that the door function appropriately. Hence, for this kind of door, your uneven opening should be 25.5 inches extensive.

Now append the height of the door that you made the broadness of the absolute object, the quantity of gap needed by the door's passageway and the mechanism that is needed to attach the door with the frame without any interruptions in opening and closing. Likewise, if there is a bi fold door of seventy nine inches height above a carpet of one inch. Then the rough opening should be of 81.25 inches, this includes the 79 inches of the flap, ½ inch of the drywall, ¾ inch of the of the mechanism of the passageway and one inch to stay above the ground.

It will be beneficial for you if you take all the measurements of the rough opening and the bi-fold door before placing it very carefully to avoid all sorts of problems or negotiate a deal.

How to Handle a Rough Opening Bi-Fold Door

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