How to Make Door Frames

SquirrelJ

I need to install fire doors into my house. This weekend I am starting to put the new stud work in and the frames for the door. But I am slightly confused.

How do you create the door frames and is there anything special to do?? I am getting a proper joiner to actually fot the doors and frames but I am just making the shell that hols it all up.

If that makes sense.

Airwolf1

You can normally buy rebated door frames from DIY shops. Or, if you are in the trade, open an account with Howdens and get the doors and frames etc from there.

andyhop

buy them from howdens

doors can be bought prehung in the frames with all the smoke strips etc fitted

SquirrelJ

don't suppose you know roughly how much they will cost each do you???

Am I right in thinking these are what I would need from Wickes

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Interior-Doors/Door-Frames/icat/idframes

Do these work as fire doors???

Cheers

Airwolf1

Go to Howdens, open a cash account and see if they'll come down a bit on their price. As long as they are within their margins, they should. I used to work there.

Bishop_Basher

SquirrelJ wrote: »

don't suppose you know roughly how much they will cost each do you???

Am I right in thinking these are what I would need from Wickes

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Interior-Doors/Door-Frames/icat/idframes

Do these work as fire doors???

Cheers

You'll need frames with a groove in them to take an Intumescent Strip.
You'll need 1" thick stoplaths too.

Bungarm2001

Why are you fitting fire doors?

Is your house to be let as an HMO or will it be subject to a lettig licence?

If yes, then there are a few other things you need to consider too, like closers and fire resistant hinges & locks/handles etc

We recently fitted 6 fire doors and we bought them as ready to install firedoor/frame sets. One of the doors had to go into a new stud wall, and my OH built this the usual way but dry lined it in fire resist 'pink' plasterboard and installed fire resist insulation (I think..!)