"Robert Allison" wrote in message
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wrote:
My bathroom has the toilet in a cubby area through a wall. There is no
door. The house was built 18 years ago. Can I just buy a door that
fits, chisel the doorway sides for hinges and stuff, and screw it in
myself? Or do I have to hire someone to tear things up and put up a
header and load-bearing wood and stuff like that? Or do you have a
suggestion for a shower rod and curtain or something similar?
And if the answer is that I need lots of support built, can you say in
general the current wood trim can be removed carefully enough so the
wallpaper around it isn't disturbed? I mean, if the wallpaper is
torn up, I will have to completely redo the wallpaper in the whole
bathroom because it's 18 years old and we have no extra.


If you have a cased opening, you can have a door made to fit it. They do
not do this at the big box amateur stores, but a door mill will have no
problem, even with odd sizes. It will probably be less expensive, too.
You will probably have to install door stop on a cased opening, but that
is simple.

Once you have a door that is correctly sized, install your hinges and
hardware and you are good to go.

--
Robert Allison Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

chances are the OP doesn't have a frame, but drywall and some unknown number
of studs somewhere in the wall. the answer in this case would be no, they
need some sort of framework to attach the prehung doorframe to. you can't
attach that to the drywall.