On Mar 19, 10:05*am, dpb wrote:
BobR wrote:
On Mar 19, 8:31 am, "
wrote:
first let me say that my apartment was built by polish carpenters, who
have a strange appraoch to building. we have a doorway leading to the
master bedroom we need to add a door to. the doorway is studless, and
is simply cut out of the sheetrock, there might be a few metal studs
somewhere in the wall, but no where close to the door. how do i
install this door? do i just build a frame inside the opening and
attach it to the sheetrock somehow?

If you are going to build a doorway you will need to build the
framework to support the door. *The attachment though needs to be to
both the floor and to the cieling and not just the sheetrock. *It will
need to be cross braced at the top of the door to keep the opening
square.

If a double stud is solidly attached at the ceiling and floor, it'll be
hard for it to go anywhere w/o the whole house shifting...


Yes I would have agreed completely until I move into my current home.
Now, I am not so sure. Actually, the whole dang house does shift
significantly from winter to summer. The doors won't stay shut in the
winter and you can't close them in the summer. That's what I get for
buying in the spring between shifts.

But, that's the only answer. *The easiest/fastest/bestest way to do this
would be to simply cut the existing sheetrock back to the previous stud
(middle of it or add a double for nailing surface), frame the door
conventionally then repair the wall.


That would have been my first thought but then I don't know exactly
what the requestor is up against and that could be a few inches or a
few feet.