Doors and Windows - Different door heights

Hello,

Due to a contractor mistake, the doors' height for my bathrooms are about 15 cm more than the height for the doors in other parts of my apartment. Is this acceptable from a design point of view or should I force the contractor to fix the problem at whatever cost?

Regards,

I'll have to get my conversion table out. How big is 15 cm? Are you measuring or is it obvious to the eye? Since it is an apartment, you won't have any say so anyway, since you don't own it. You may talk the landlord into a modification, but I doubt it.

2.54 cm = 1 inch....thats a huge difference...almost 6 inches....

Is this a condo?

Generally it looks best if all the doors are the same height but if it isn't noticable to the naked eye..... it probably doesn't matter much. If a short door is next to a taller door, I'd want it corrected.

Like chandler, I'm not up on metric measurements:o
how much in inches?

btw - welcome to the forums!

Yikes, 6" that would be noticable:eek::wall:

The height difference would be very obvious if the woodwork is a different color than the walls. If walls and trim are all the same color - not as noticable.

I won't be wishy washy about it. No! It's not acceptable. You answered your own question here: Due to a contractor mistake.

it seems its too late and it will be costly to adjust the doors. i think what marksr
suggested is the best solution, i.e. to do some wood work on the wall of same color of the door of the bathroom as to minimize the effect. thanks guys!

Out of curiosity could you post a couple of pictures on a site such as photobucket.com and copy/paste the HTML code to your reply post? My interest is piqued.

First ,is the bathroom door your talking about adjacent to your other doors ie; in a hallway.If so....it should be corrected and definately if your doors have any sort of decorative casing.In this instance anything more than an 1/8" difference between 2 adjacent doors in not acceptable.Also with such a dramatic size difference Id be very surprised if this also didnt create a problem with the doors themselves.Because either your doors are 1)flat slab doors w/no detail or 2) the contractor has cut the door bottoms to varying heights (which is normal to some degree to accomodate different thicknesses of floor coverings for example)and probably also left larger than acceptable gaps on the door bottoms etc. But no matter what was done it was wrong.... and to be honest..It really isnt that much work to yank the door,reset the Jamb, and rehang the door.I personally could do that in no more than an hour and a half. But it should be done regardless.Too many people these days settle for shotty craftsmanship and in doing so keep un-qualified contractors working and leaves less work for those that truly take pride in thier work.
P.S. Tell your contractor that if he's going to be Hanging doors maybe he should invest in a Builders level/Transit and then maybe next time he wouldnt have to worry about fixing the shotty work he installed in the first place LOL :)

Hi Bigkay,

I would need a little more info before demanding the contractor replace the doors. Re-hanging a door is easy, but if some are 6" shorter than the others someone would need to supply new doors.

Some questions;

1. Did the contractor re-model the apartment? If so he may be responsible assuming he framed the door openings at different heights and installed the doors.
2. Was there some reason he had to use different height doors?
3. Did he install doors in existing openings? If you (or the apartment owner) had someone come in and install new doors in existing openings they would not be responsible for the different heights.
4. Is the difference we are talking about really 6"?


Bill

Standard residential doors (in the US) are 80". I can't imagine a contractor modifying a door 6" just for the heck of it. A hollow core door couldn't just be cut. A panel door would require reconstruction. There must be something such as a beam in the wall or pipe that prevented standard height.

Just to throw into the mix here...
We never heard the actual measurements. All we have is....

"Due to a contractor mistake, the doors' height for my bathrooms are about 15 cm more than the height for the doors in other parts of my apartment."

Now, I read that as the bathroom doors are TALLER than the others, possibly indicating the others are standard sizes. There's also the possibility that these are not doors, but doorways. I've seen a few places where the lav/shower area was wide open with just doors to the toilet area. These were where the bathrooms were completely within a bedroom.

Also possible that what was meant was 1.5cm which is about .6 in.

I'd sure like bigkay to post a pic or 2...

hello guys,

Thanks for the suggestions. To make it more clear, I upload two pictures. Please read the descriptions and hopefully a picture worth a 1000 words. waiting your replies.

Pictures by bigkay2009 - Photobucket (http://s913.photobucket.com/albums/ac336/bigkay2009/?newest=1)

Thanks.

K

Ok big...just because I'm here....

That truly looks like cr@p. That looks like 1 x 4 boards..wheres the framing lumber?

Just wondering where you are located, cause that would never be acceptable in any way shape or form to most people.

Thanks for the pics..it does make it clearer..unfortunately.

Don't take offense...JMO.

It looks to me as if the bathroom ceilings are dropped down too low (for some reason) to allow the same height door as the other room. I bet this is Europe because it loooks like they did plaster walls and set the jambs as stops. I guess trim is to be installed at some point.

Bill

you are right Bill62, the trim and doors are still not installed. the reason for the bathroom ceilings are dropped down too low is due to a small attic built with opening from the kitchen to be used for food storage. This is not europe. its lebanon. so any suggestions other than to do some wood work on the wall of same color of the door of the bathroom as to minimize the effect? the other solution is to lower the door height of the kitchen (the one to the left).. but then two doors will be the exception to other doors in the apartment instead of one. but since these doors are adjacent, its an option to lower the height of the other door.

Regards,

I have a window in my living rm that is set too low. What I did was to build a shelf above it which makes it look the same height as the doorways and other window. I assume you will have a small door above the bath door so why not frame that doorway up to the ceiling [or close] and then either do something decorative or maybe a shelf above the door to the kitchen to bring that frame work to the same level.

Good suggestion marksr! its good idea to put a shelf above the bathroom door frame!

marksr! what shelf i can install above bathroom keeping in mind that the bathroom door is open to the hallway! it needs to be something decorative that suits a hallway! Any suggestion/pics.. Thanks

I'd consider casing the bath dr and above as one giant casing and put the shelf over the door to the kitchen.