On Dec 19, 12:13*am, hibb wrote:
On Dec 18, 10:30*pm, Oren wrote:



On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:16:23 -0800 (PST), Mikepier

wrote:
On Dec 18, 10:08 pm, hibb wrote:
I just installed a new pre-hung door in the upstairs bedroom I am
remodeling. I've got it in nice and level and square and it works
great.

My trouble is that at the bottom of the door the door jamb will be
just even with the drywall but the top of the jamb is even with the
wall frame. The only thing I can figure is that I need to take a long
piece of 1/2 x 1/2 and cut it into a long wedge and install it on the
door jamb to make the whole thing about even with the drywall.

Is this the way it is done or is there something easier?

Thanks, David

Obviously your wall is not level. In this situation I would try and
compromise by "splitting the difference" by making your door and the
top frame almost even and at the same time push in the bottom of the
door jamb. Of course that would mean you door would be off level, or
you could shim up the jamb like you suggested.

Something is "cockeyed". The RO, the door jamb or the wall.

*appearing to be physically or logically abnormal, absurd, etc.

A recent thread mentioned a "string test" *to check for plumb..

The wall is part of the old house built in 1910 and now the inside
wall of an upstairs bedroom that was added on around 1948. Looks like
the wall is about a half inch farther into the room at the top of the
door than at the bottom.

I've only installed the door with a few nails and left them so I can
easily pull them back out if I need too. And I haven't installed the
drywall on that wall yet so, if it is what I should do, I could remove
the door and plumb the wall before I continue with the drywalling.

David

Here's what the instructions for my ThermaTry entry door say.

I'm guessing that your opening would fail this test.

http://www.thermatru.com/pdfs/instal...nstruction.pdf


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Check to be sure the framing walls around the opening are in the same
plane. Do this by performing a “string test” for plumb.

String Test for Plumb: Attach a string diagonally across the opening
from the outside, as shown. The string(s) should gently touch in the
center, if not the opening is “out of plumb” by twice that distance
and needs to be corrected. Flip the string over itself to check both
planes. Fix any problems now.

An “out of plumb” condition is one of the most common reasons door
units leak air and water.

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