home theater studio doors and window framing
Sunday, 21 February 2010 01:07 | 
Written by Brien | 
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Construction of your home theater and studio door ways, cased or pre-hung door ready.
Can also be used to make window openings between control and tracking rooms.
Often a place of question in a home theater or recording studio is the doorways and window framed areas. It proves to be simple but requires some information from the builder to do it right the first time. This video gives a quick and easy demonstration that covers everything you need to know for cutting framing material and installation of an opening. The video does use the words "always frame the opening 2 inches bigger", but doe not completely explain why. That reason is the jambs of a typical door are made from 3/4 inch stock. This is equal to (2 X 3/4") 1-1/2". The remaining 1/2 inch is your wiggle room to move the jamb left or right in order to get an exact plumb on the door opening.
But in our case, building a sound proof or well isolated wall may require different jamb material. It is not uncommon to see a full 2X being used as a door jamb! Reason being is that solid core doors are used for sound isolation and these are heavy, heavy doors that can put so much pressure on a framing member that it warps or pulls the door loose from the hinge side, over time.
So this would require that a different number other then 2 inches be used for your framed opening. Taking a 2X we can measure and see that it is actually 1-1/2 inches. This, plus another 1-1/2 inch board yields a 3 inch measurement. Add the 1/2 inch wiggle room and your opening is now 3-1/2 inches. So plan it out, make sure you take the measurements and write them down so you are more confident when framing this door opening.
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