On 3 Mar 2005 10:52:10 -0800, scribbled
this interesting note:


John Willis wrote:
On 3 Mar 2005 05:29:04 -0800, scribbled this
interesting note:

Boy you can take a beating here if you make a mistake, the door size
is
79 1/4 not 70 1/4 sorry!

I kind of figured that to begin with.


I will keep everybody posted on the progress,
Felix

Please do. And remember to let us know if that extra 1/4" was really
needed!:~)

I'm not sure he ever said the non-standard was the height or width.

79 1/4" sounds more like the height, 3/4" short of standard. Some doors
may also come standard as 78", so then we'd be talking about an extra 1
1/4". Either way, not an extra 1/4", and perhaps a bit more than
trivial to make the door fit the frame.

Not entirely correct. Just to be sure, I went and measured my front
door, which is a metal door with a half moon light in the top. It is
exactly 79" and the opening, from the threshold to the top of the
frame, is exactly 79 1/4". This is why I believe the person who came
out to measure this poor man's door measured the opening and failed to
understand that every door requires a little bit of clearance all the
way around it in order to open and shut correctly.


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John Willis
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