But if you are doing timber flooring - which is normally 15mm thick anyway, it should make the height difference much less , is it still worth to do the sliding door concrete recessed then ?
Thanks
so I was at my build over weekend and coincidentally the concreter was there too to do some rectification work. We had a nice long chat on all things build / concreting. He was curious as to why I didn't recess my doors / windows and I said that I wasn't even aware that was an option.
His perspective:
- He hates doing it. It is quite challenging to get a 15mm recess in the slab perfect to allow for the doors / windows to fit. There is never a time he can get it perfect and he has been doing it for 30 years.
- When you do do it, the framers generally have to surround the frame with packers and play with the heights to try and get it level etc.
- I think i read previously that sometimes there are water ingress issues depending on if the outside is covered etc, so that's something to consider.
Hope that helps, but yes with timber flooring the lip to the door would hopefully not be too much.
thanks for your perspective. Do you know how high the lip of the windows will stick out above the timber floor if there is no recess?
i have just the slab down and windows / door in. It's probably about 40-50mm now so with flooring i'd expect it to come to about 20mm or so?