A pair of french doors means two doors made in france usually operating together.
French doors with jamb.
The wall frame header.
After you find the width of the frame then calculate the height of the door frame.
French doors have a jamb on each side but no jamb in the middle.
The horizontal support that spans the rough opening at the top of the door is called the header.
The framed passageway begins with a rough opening large enough with a bit of maneuvering room to.
A french door is a door made in france.
So if the doors are 24 inches wide leave a 1 4 inch gap between doors and between each door and the jamb.
And don t forget that the jamb is usually 1 inch thick with another 1 4 inch space between the frame and the jamb.
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This adds up to a total of 51 1 4 inches for the width of the opening.
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This makes them somewhat less apt for security than other doors when used on the outside of the home but newer lock technology and dead bolts make these a very feasible outside door choice.
But seriously folks it french doors is currently a marketing term broadly applied to mass produced near c p in an attempt to add a bit of class to woefully made doors.
A door jamb is 1 inch thick has an additional 1 4 inch gap.
Take care in measuring the opening.
Add those measurements to the size of both doors and add an additional 1 1 4 inch to obtain the final dimensions.
The door jamb framing.
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