"Brian V" wrote in message
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"Cleetus Awreetus" wrote in
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I 've attempted to install a 48" x 80" double prehung
door (made by Masonite, from Home Depot) into a
pre-framed entry way in my house, and it's turned out
to not be as easy as I thought. When I bought the
house, the door way was simply finished with dry
wall. I started by pulling off the dry wall from the
inside, to expose the 2x4's all around the inside of
the door way. After pulling off the dry wall, the
exact width of the doorway is 48". I figured since
it was 48", then I needed a 48" x 80" prehung door,
which they sold at HD. Little did I realize, that
48" was the interior measurement of the prehung door
frame and that the width from stud to study would
need to be an inch or two more. What's the right way
to proceed on this? Should I even think about trying
to pull out one of the 2x4s on one of the sides to
give me an extra 1.5" - 2" or so? Is there another
size of a prehung doors that would better fit my
dimensions? Or do I just need to hire a carpenter to
build a custom frame and doors? Any advice
appreciated. Thanks.

Steve



Return the door to the borg and order the right one.
You can pretty much custom order everything,
generally takes about 2 weeks.

Stud to stud and header to floor measurents are the
rough opening which is what you'll need to get the
right one.

-Brian


Brian's advice is decent, but it almost sounds like
you could set the rough-in to what is required. The
paperwork somewhere should indicate the rough-in
required for the door. Failing that, google is always
good for that sort of thing. I wish I could state what
you need, but it's best to get it from the "horses
mouth" so to speak, because there are a couple of
different ways of looking at such thngs.

Here are a couple links to get you started: There are
lots of them on google.
http://www.ehow.com/how_15280_install-prehung-door.html
http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/d...ehung/pre.html
http://www.hometime.com/Howto/projects/window/win_3.htm

HTH,

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