Interior Doors

A modest home with a common need. Separation between adjoining rooms.

Sometimes it’s for noise abatement, sometimes it’s pet-control, and sometimes it’s wanting to secure a room.

For those in the building trades, an understandable question regarding these photos might be; “why the “on-site” pre-hanging”

The answer to that question lies in the fact that the floor beneath this particular interior opening had a severe slope to it, from side to side.

If you stick a “square door assembly” like this on-top of a sloping floor, you’re going to have to try and convince your client to live with doors…

…that open or close on their own because the hinge-jambs are leaning in proportion to the slope of the floor. Not very professional, but you might be surprised what we’ve seen done by others.

If it were an EXTERIOR opening, you would probably just shim up one side of the sill and threshold assembly and get by with that, depending upon the severity of the slope.

But the correct option for this INTERIOR opening with the hardwood floors was to cut the bottoms of the sidelights, the doors and the jambs…

…at an angle that countermands the slope of the floor, while maintaining jamb-legs that align straight up relative to gravity.

It’s a lot of extra work that some might not understand… but such are the unappreciated challenges of the journeyman door mechanic.