Minnie Bannister wrote:

What's there now is just an opening without jamb or casing -- just the
studs.


If you want that 36" door, there is still a solution with minimum damage
to the walls, but not exactly "Kosher", according to construction code.
Doesn't require any wall repairing afterwards, if done neatly, and would
be invisible to detection. I wouldn't post it publically because someone
here might 'have a cow' or something. I have used this method a few
times, once in my own house. Sometimes, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
E-mail me if you want it.




MB

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On 10/03/04 09:52 am Chris Perdue put fingers to keyboard and launched
the following message into cyberspace:

I bought a 36" pre-hung door, thinking that was what I needed to fit
an existing 36 1/4" opening that never had a door


If I simply discard the frame with which the pre-hung door came, how
difficult would it be to hang the door in the existing opening,


not too difficult....it is likely since it is a prehung that the slab
itself is
a bit shy of 36"...but, yes, you can hang it in an existing cased
opening if
the height is right...you will need to purchase door "stop"
molding...door stop
molding is pretty much self-explanatory


Other suggestions?


tear out the existing casing and jamb material then hang the pre-hung
door...this is what *I* would do, but you may have a scenario that
*I* can't
see from here...