Thread: Room Dividers

When you refer to the door frame, do you mean the actual timber frame of the building or are you refering to the reveals that would be up each side and across the top of the opening , actually covering the timber frame? Asuming we are discussing the latter, there is no set thickness for the reveals as they are supported by the framing timbers to which they are fixed. Spacing between doors is determined by the hinges ie Butt hinges, when let into the door edge the thickness of the leaf of the hinge ( leaf flush with face of the door edge) the gap between the two leaves when closed to parallel will be the clearance between doors. If using Single Leaf hinges, that are not let into the door edge, then clearance between doors will be the thickness of the leaf plus a little to allow clearance and prevent back binding of the hinge.
Complex aint it?

I would add to rustynail.
Are your doors glass paneled.
If so they will be quite heavy. Therefore look to using the best quality hinges you can find.
Also 3 hinges per side.
One of the easiest ways for determining the framing you need, is to lay the doors on the floor in the position you want to see them finished.
Measure their overall width. Measure the gap you have to fill and adjust accordingly.
It is not a difficult process at all, but can be a bit fiddley to work out.
I did a lot of restos in years past. The lat 40's and 50's were all about "modernizing.
Then the trend turned to restoration and that mainly what I did.

You have a very worthwhile project. Good luck.

Paul.

When I was a kid, if you needed a space between a pair of doors, or a hinge, or a between a window and the frame, you'd use a piece of cigarette packet... These days, I struggle to find something quite as accurate!