In my basement I am renovating one of my rooms that has a 30" door.
There is no jamb, the hinges are screwed directly into the 2X3
framing, and the walls were 70's style wood paneling that were nailed
up to the edge of the door frame. The door worked well with no
problems, but now I am replacing the walls in this room with
sheetrock. My options a

1) remove old door, and put in new 28" door with jambs ( since framing
is already there), but I'm concerned with making the opening 2 inches
smaller, poses a problem when trying to get furniture in this room.
Also because of space limitations, I cannot extend opening frame to
32" to accomodate a 30" prehung door.

Leave door as is , and sheetrock up to edge of the door using a J-bead
or corner bead to finish off, paint inside frame, and put molding on
afterwords.

Sorry, there should be a 2) next to the second option

2) Leave door as is , and sheetrock up to edge of the door using a J-
bead
or corner bead to finish off, paint inside frame, and put molding on
afterwords.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:39:09 -0700 (PDT), Mikepier
wrote:

In my basement I am renovating one of my rooms that has a 30" door.
There is no jamb, the hinges are screwed directly into the 2X3
framing, and the walls were 70's style wood paneling that were nailed
up to the edge of the door frame. The door worked well with no
problems, but now I am replacing the walls in this room with
sheetrock. My options a

1) remove old door, and put in new 28" door with jambs ( since framing
is already there), but I'm concerned with making the opening 2 inches
smaller, poses a problem when trying to get furniture in this room.
Also because of space limitations, I cannot extend opening frame to
32" to accomodate a 30" prehung door.

Leave door as is , and sheetrock up to edge of the door using a J-bead
or corner bead to finish off, paint inside frame, and put molding on
afterwords.

This sounds like a text book example of why building permits should be
obtained.

Go to your building and zoning office and get a permit for the work
you are planning, or may have already started. They will be able to
answer all of your questions and probably give you many options for
your situation. The cost of the permit is a lot less than having to
remove and re-build something that went wrong.

Gordon Shumway

One positive thing about 'Cash for Clunkers' is that
it took thousands of Obama bumper stickers off the road.