Installing Pre-Hung Metal door in brick opening?
#1
11-05-07, 07:12 AM
Installing Pre-Hung Metal door in brick opening?
We need to install a pre-hung metal door in an exterior passage way that has brick walls. I've seen the door in Home Depot, but it's not clear to me how to properly install them. Do we need to nail studs to the brick first? Somebody said something about pouring concrete into the frame, but they weren't sure either. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
#2
11-05-07, 09:51 AM
Member
Clarification
Is this a brick veneer residential structure with interior wood framing?
Is the "metal door" all metal or simply metal clad?
Is the "metal door" all metal or simply metal clad?
#3
11-05-07, 09:56 AM
Originally Posted by Wirepuller38
Is this a brick veneer residential structure with interior wood framing?
Is the "metal door" all metal or simply metal clad?
Is the "metal door" all metal or simply metal clad?
#4
11-05-07, 10:56 AM
Group Moderator
Its hard to give you advice if you don't know exactly what type of door it is.
When you say metal pre-hung, what I'm picturing is an insulated metal skinned door that is prehung in a wooden frame that has an aluminum sloped sill on the bottom and #908 brickmould as exterior trim.
Another type of metal door actually is ALL metal, has metal jambs, and attaches differently than a wood framed door. It either has no threshold, or it might have a small aluminum threshold that is held onto the side jambs with a couple screws on each side. When you mention "pouring concrete into the frame", that is something you might do with an "all metal" door frame that is being installed into a partially completed masonry wall where the top of the finished cement opening for the door has not yet been finished, since the concrete is poured in from the top. Woe unto the man who ever has to tear it out.
When you say metal pre-hung, what I'm picturing is an insulated metal skinned door that is prehung in a wooden frame that has an aluminum sloped sill on the bottom and #908 brickmould as exterior trim.
Another type of metal door actually is ALL metal, has metal jambs, and attaches differently than a wood framed door. It either has no threshold, or it might have a small aluminum threshold that is held onto the side jambs with a couple screws on each side. When you mention "pouring concrete into the frame", that is something you might do with an "all metal" door frame that is being installed into a partially completed masonry wall where the top of the finished cement opening for the door has not yet been finished, since the concrete is poured in from the top. Woe unto the man who ever has to tear it out.
#5
11-05-07, 11:20 AM
Originally Posted by XSleeper
Its hard to give you advice if you don't know exactly what type of door it is.
Another type of metal door actually is ALL metal, has metal jambs, and attaches differently than a wood framed door. It either has no threshold, or it might have a small aluminum threshold that is held onto the side jambs with a couple screws on each side. When you mention "pouring concrete into the frame", that is something you might do with an "all metal" door frame that is being installed into a partially completed masonry wall where the top of the finished cement opening for the door has not yet been finished, since the concrete is poured in from the top. Woe unto the man who ever has to tear it out.
Another type of metal door actually is ALL metal, has metal jambs, and attaches differently than a wood framed door. It either has no threshold, or it might have a small aluminum threshold that is held onto the side jambs with a couple screws on each side. When you mention "pouring concrete into the frame", that is something you might do with an "all metal" door frame that is being installed into a partially completed masonry wall where the top of the finished cement opening for the door has not yet been finished, since the concrete is poured in from the top. Woe unto the man who ever has to tear it out.
I'm 99% certain it's the ALL metal door. Thanks.
