French Door Rough In Dimensions

For standard wood framed construction the rough openings for doors and windows is typically the actual unit size plus 2 1 2 inches in height and width.

French door rough in dimensions.

While a standard door height is 80 finished opening. Many manufacturers make a so called 5 french door in which the rough opening is exactly 5 0 wide but that means that the opening is 5 0 the door frame is approx. Just add 2 to the width of the actual door size. Now all you need to know is how to properly frame your door rough opening.

So if you have a bedroom door that is 30 wide which is considered a 2 6 or 2 6 door just add 2 to the width and frame it 32 wide. Unit widths will be the same as in the table above. 26 3 8 30 3 8 32 3 8 34 3 8 36 3 8 38 3 8 44 3 8 28 5 8 32 5 8 34 5 8 36 5 8 38 5 8 40 5 8 46 5 8 for units with public access sills subtract 1 from inswing height. You should add 2 1 2 to the height of the actual door.

This will give you room to space the door frame off of the sub floor. Framing rough opening sizes are really quite simple. To get the total width multiply the width of each door by 2 and add 2 inches. For m e u add actual unit dimension to door rough opening width for total rough opening width.

To correctly determine the size of a rough opening for double or french doors measure the size of each door. So if each door measures 30 inches wide the width of the rough opening should be 62 inches. The difference between a rough opening and finished opening is usually 2 3 inches. 4 11 1 4 and the doors are.

For reference standard interior door widths range from 24 36 finished opening.