Quality Pocket Door Frames?
Aletia Morgan
9 years ago
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Comments (4)In #1 you really need to consider headering, support for the header, milling the studs to conform to lath deformation caused by tile masonry base coat. 2) "I have a situation" To quote Dave Hester YUUUP "Both doors would need to slide to the same side and could either be enclosed in a pocket or left visible." If you are building a pocket in the room, why do you need two doors? If the pocket is in another room or outside the building envelope, how is it going to be encased or wether protected?...See MorePocket door frame advice
Comments (11)Thank you. This information just led to a ton of information gathering and I feel like I'm on the verge of seriously overanalyzing this. Johnson frames come in several series but they make a frame with "soft close" hardware which is only available on their entry level 1500 series frames. The higher level frames are able to handle heavier doors and such but don't have a soft close option. If I'm using basic solid core doors that aren't going to push the weight limit, am I losing anything by using the 1500 series? This is the Johnson door. Before now I didn't know there were soft close pocket doors. In this case, the Johnson door is both soft open and soft close. Neat! My searching didn't lead me to any other frames that come with soft close hardware but I did find other companies that manufacture just the hardware, which you have to install on the door/frame. I'm afraid this is one of those things that could be a major project with little noticeable benefit. Should I just get the Johnson soft close frame and be done with it or is there much to gain by obsessing over the decision?...See MoreOk to put 1/4" drywall over a pocket door frame?
Comments (43)If you plan to use a Johnson framing kit, you might take a look at this. https://jhusa.net/1515-ply-34-pocket-door-frame-plywood-clip-set The plywood is 3/4", but it is recessed into the pocket door frame so it doesn't take up additional width space. Then you could put the sheets of drywall over that. One caution: if you put drywall over plywood sheeting, don't make the same mistake I did when I re-did the exterior walls in a room of a mid-1800s house. I covered the interior side of the exterior walls, with 3/8" plywood to give lateral strength, since the original house has no sheathing under the siding, which was nailed directly over the studs. (150 years of lateral movement with wind and ground settling is why the original plaster/lath walls were beyond repair.) I didn't want to rip off the exterior siding and add sheathing, so I installed plywood over the interior side after putting in insulation, and then added sheets of drywall, which came out to identical thickness as the original plaster and lath. My mistake was to smear construction adhesive over the plywood before applying the drywall, because the wall was uneven and the drywall didn't fit snugly against the plywood at many spots. About 6 months after the drywall work was finished, I noticed hair-line cracks developing over some of the drywall joints. Although plywood is supposed to be extremely stable compared to regular wood, there is still a small amount of expansion and contraction under varying temperature and humidity conditions, and the movement was just enough to produce visible cracks. I should have just fastened the drywall at the studs without the glue, as if the plywood sheathing weren't there, allowing some structural movement under the drywall without causing it to shift enough to produce cracks. It's something I live with, since the cracks are very small and hardly noticeable to anyone but me, but I know they are there and they jump out at me every time I look at that wall....See Morebarn doors, pocket doors or french door?
Comments (14)I'm going to say none of above (if pocket doors not an option).... I see french doors in new construction offices all the time and all I can attribute it to is "what everyone is doing" because from a practicality issue it makes no sense to me. Most people's offices are for working in and are functional and private and often times, messy! Why would people want that to be "open" to everyone? You certainly don't want your guests to see it and it is even unappealing and even stressful to look at a space covered in piles and clutter. I know everyone's office is not this way but trust me :), most are not the tidiest rooms in the house! Put solid doors that offer noise control and privacy. Also gives you other options if for some reason it needs to serve another function at any time- i.e. guest room....See MoreAletia Morgan
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