Saturday, September 24, 2011

Installing a 32 Inch Back Door

In some older houses you will find a 30 inch back door. Have you ever tried to move a refrigerator or some large furniture straight through a 30 inch door? Keep in mind most bedroom doors are 30 inches wide and are in 36 inch hallways. 30 inch doors and bedrooms make it tough to move some furniture in too.

Let's start with the price difference in the middle of a 30 inch door and a 32 inch door. The cost difference is regularly going to be colse to . If you are building a hundred homes this could come to be quite an further expense. So we can understand why the home manufacturer installed a 30 inch door in the back of our home.

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He got the extra money in his pocket, you got a headache.

Here's the big problem. If you ever want to setup a larger door you will need to replace the structural door framing. Now this is where you could run into a minuscule bit of an expense. Changing the framing for a wider door could come to be quite costly. It could honestly cost over 00 in some cases.

Now if the homebuilder would have originally installed a 32 inch door in your house it might have ran him as high as an further . How can this be? I will give you the first clue. There is a good chance the homebuilder will not be keen into any of these houses. If for some strange instance he did move into the house, he would learn the same lesson whenever he needed to move a large item into the house.

I'm a contactor and learned this lesson in a long time ago.

If you are building a new home you might even want to consider installing a 36 inch back door. This door will give you abundance of room when it comes to keen large items in or out of your house. The cost difference in the middle of a 36 inch door and a 32 inch door is regularly colse to also.

When building a new home most habitancy don't give very much opinion about their interior or outside doors. Here's a uncomplicated chart I made to help with some basic door decisions.

Bathroom Doors Should Be 28 Inches Wide Minimum.
Bedroom Doors Should Be 30 Inches Wide Minimum.
Front Doors Should Be At Least 36 Inches Wide
Back Doors and carport Doors Should Be At Least 32 Inches Wide

If you are a pro football or basketball player don't use these numbers above.

If you have large sliding glass doors or French doors throughout your home and can use them to move large items into the house you can setup whatever size doors you choose that are comfortable to walk through.

Give some opinion when installing a new door on your next task and keep some of the above tips in mind..

If you are designing a home give some opinion to the stairways and hallways in the home as well.

Installing a 32 Inch Back Door

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