Apartment Door Install

matt-dublin

Well folks,

looking for a little advice, i want to put a door into my apartment between two rooms. I have the door and matching frame, don't have the hinges or handle.

Does anyone know what sort of money i would be looking at to have it installed and anyone here a decent carpenter interested in doing it if i was to go ahead?

cheers

Charlie-Bravo

Is this to go from the bedroom to the gym? All I'd say is make sure you're not creating a fire safety issue, particularly if you're breaking through a fire-rated stud partition.

As for the chippy end of things, plenty of guys on the sticky. The ones I know will be insured and will charge you accordingly! If you're looking to do it on the cheap, be careful!

matt-dublin

Its a fire door so should keep the fire rating in place.

i've a mezz, which is being used as the gym.

im thinking about putting a door in between the Mezz and attic storage area to turn it into a walk in wardrobe / closet.

I can then take the wardrobe out of there and move it into the walk in room and put a bed up there, then i can move the gym equipment to the other side of the room.

it would make foe a decent guest room.

i need to start somewhere so i figure this would be a good start :P

Charlie-Bravo

ah right - I'm not familiar with the layout of those apartments, be careful you're not creating a room within a room, or a habitable room without a window for escape.

matt-dublin

there already is a habitable room without a window for escape. was here when i bought the place!

Charlie-Bravo

right so - again I'm not familiar with the layout of these units and there may be certain circumstance under regs that the room doesn't require a window for escape. It's unusual not to have a window in a 'habitable' room - in most cases habitable rooms do need a window which opens for purge/rapid ventilation, so a Velux window should satisfy this (is there a Velux window?). If its a room within a room then the window issue needs to be reviewed for either fire safety or ventilation purposes!

Langerland

I didn't think one would be able to break through an apartment wall like that, even if one owns the apartment. It's an interesting idea. What apartments are you in Matt?

matt-dublin

The crescent, a couple of others have done very similar, one so much to remove their hallway completly so that you walk straight into their living room.

Another with the same apartment as mine completly remove the same wall to make a large landing/living area, actually he removed two walls on either side.

Langerland

Did you have to get any architect/engineer advice before doing this? Approval from the Management?

Perhaps for a door, its not such a requirement but Im guessing that chap had to get some kind of clearance before going ahead.

Its something I would love to do....

Charlie-Bravo

Langerland wrote: »

Did you have to get any architect/engineer advice before doing this?

A Chartered Building Surveyor is a better selection for this type of thing.