Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Door Heights 5Jul 15, 2020 3:17 pm Yes they confirmed this today, will be square set, double doors at end of long hallway - just the architrave so i can get my own doors post build to save their markup Re: Door Heights 6Jul 15, 2020 11:32 pm Yes this is a simply setup, we have done 2340 doors with a 2550 ceiling height on our last two houses. A builder friend of mine actually suggested it years ago (he specialises in energy efficient homes) as it assists with air movement, particularly if you are running heaters and wanting it to transfer more easily. I think it looks good too, and even with our 75mm cove cornice and upgraded architraves (67mm from memory?) there is still plenty of wall to attach everything. My wife and I walked through a new house the other day during an open house, and she commented on the way out that the lower doors (2040) with the same 2550 ceilings make the doorways feel quite closed in. So I would definitely go ahead with it, it is certainly not a construction issue for your builder. ** [EDIT] ** oh I just remembered really important actually to upgrade the door heights of all your robes etc. With standard 2040 door height you struggle to actually get anything into the top shelves typically. So go the 2340 heights but make sure your top shelves are set to around 1800mm height, not the 1650mm that our builder did for some of our robes.... Here are a couple of pics from our construction last year.... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This robe top shelf was actually set to 1800mm, which I think is about right if you upgrade the door heights.Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: Door Heights 7Jul 15, 2020 11:45 pm newbuild123 Yes they confirmed this today, will be square set, double doors at end of long hallway - just the architrave so i can get my own doors post build to save their markup Thought I would mention our builder charged $65 or $70 per door to upgrade from 2040 to 2340mm heights. A bit expensive in my mind but it was one of my main upgrades I wanted....especially for the robes and all the way along the main hallway. The hallway is only 1200mm wide and I wanted to at least open up the doorways along it. We actually spec'd our main living zone door heights to 2040mm to save some money....and also because two of them were adjacent to external windows....and the head heights were almost a match between the 2040 doorways and the windows. So the arch's aligned which helps with my OCD. Actually I had the chippy add some extra timber to top of the archs on those windows as they were 35mm or so out! Perfectly aligned archs!Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is definitely a bad case of OCD....and the chippy thought I was a bit of a moron....but it worked really well. Glued and nailed down hardLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Building Standards; Getting It Right! We bought a house in 2015 advertised as a 7/2/2, 4br up, 3br down (7br), and to date, it’s a great house. However, we’ve just had it valued and it’s come in as a… 0 11988 Thanks for your thoughts. Do you feel your louvre sidelite security mesh is safe? I was thinking no window at all so no one can see if I'm near the front door, shadows… 2 709 Black on light wood does look good. Not sure if it will be as long lasting as a steel finish? 6 6353 |