How To Install Your Door

How To Install Your Door

Internal and External timber doors should be fitted square, true and plumb and fixed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions or the project specification.

Three hinges should be fitted

to all exterior doors, doors weighing more than 20 kilograms and interior doors where large differences of temperature or humidity on opposing faces can be expected (e.g. bathrooms and airing cupboards).

Mortices for locks must not

be cut through joints in the door framing as this will impair performance of the rail joint. If any part of an external door or door frame is cut or drilled, swab the newly exposed timber with suitable preservative material and re-coat with primer or stain.

Fire resisting doors should not be altered on site.

Cutting of glazing apertures on site must not be carried out without the approval of the door manufacturer and the local Fire Officer. Ideally, the door frame should be set well back from the outer face of the wall or else be protected by a canopy. If not, the head of the frame should be provided with a projecting head drip. External doors opening outward should be particularly well protected.

Glazed panels in doors must

satisfy the requirements in respect of safety glass. Bead glazing must be correctly fitted using compound or glazing tapes to both sides of the glass.