Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Eden Brae - Narrow Cavity Sliding Doors 15Jan 07, 2019 10:13 am rajesh Thanks Salfield and Gillybean for your insight. Today, construction manager agreed to rectify this by making the opening 720mm or as close as possible. Good result and what they should’ve done first up, they’ll always try and get out of fixing things but knowledge is power, good on you. I see too all of Salfields “advice” has been removed, luckily for them I quoted it so others can read it still. 😊 Re: Building with Eden Brae - Narrow Cavity Sliding Doors 16Jan 07, 2019 11:37 am rajesh It looks like the builder is cutting corners with cheaper variants of the product. The site supervisor said that there are 2 variants of 720mm sliding door cavities available in the market: 1. Flush to Jamb cavity- which gives a clearance of 700mm 2. Flush to Pull cavity- which gives a clearance of 640mm - this is cheaper in price. Eden Brae designer marked the door as 720mm CSD - in the drawings. The type of cavity door clearance is nowhere documented or informed or consulted. During the construction, they installed the cheaper one(Flush to Pull cavity - with 640mm clearance) rather than -Flush to Jamb cavity (clearance of 700mm which is closest to the contract plan with 720mm). Site Supervisor was not accepting his fault and he is asking me to pay around $1500-$2000 to fix this. I feel it is completely unfair and deceptive conduct(showing 720mm in the plan and installing the cheaper variant with 640mm clearance). I raised this issue to their management team with the hope that someone will resolve this in a fair and reasonable manner. If anyone had this kind of experience and faced this problem, please advise the best way to resolve this. I think you would find with most volume builders that the Flush to Pull cavity slider is the standard type of cavity slider they will install and you would have had to choose the "pull" style during your selections. It basically allows the door to have a recessed pull on both sides (as opposed to a stick out handle), hence the amount of the door not inside the cavity when opened, so that you can then shut the door again. The actual door is still 720mm - measure it when shut. Neither of the two CSD options allow 720mm clearance when open. We had this type of flush to pull CSD on the pantry of our last house and it was fine (720mm too if I remember rightly). Even with a hinged door, you will lose about 60mm of clearance when the door is fully opened due to the jamb and the width of the door itself - but the door installed will be the stated size, not the clearance when opened. Re: Building with Eden Brae - Narrow Cavity Sliding Doors 17Jan 07, 2019 11:50 am Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Pictured is the 720mm CSD we had on the pantry of our last house. This door was only standard height - if you have 2340mm door height it will likely make it appear narrower than it really is due to the extra height. Note the silver pull on the part of the door not inside the cavity (to the left). FWIW I also just measured the pantry CSD of the rental we are in and it too is the exact same width with approx. 640mm clearance. I built with EB back on 2009. Check out this thread on this forum. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12911&p=154061#p154061 I can't speak for recent expericience however, we had no… 1 23801 we have a standard size and often we have a lot of variety to choose 0 3674 We are looking for sliding doors which are 5 metres tall. There are a few European options. Any manufacturers in Australia or distributors? 0 5181 |