Removing door frame

[theone8181]

So our living room and dining room are open plan-ish, theres currently a double door that can be shut. My plane is to remove the double door and just be left with a plasterboard archway. Is this just a case of simply D) remove doorframe and modify plasterboard to suit

Cheers

 

[ChroniC]

Can't say for plasterboard, but yes if you remove a door frame you'll be left with unplastered brick.
But with brick the lintel is is holding up the bricks above the doorway, I'd assume that in plasterboard the door frame is part of the wall frame so you might have trouble taking it out unless there is a frame within a frame.

Definitely need someone who's got more experience than me. Lol

 

[theone8181]

Sorry I should have said its a modern-ish house and it's only stud walls.

 

[jsmoke]

Take door off, pry of the jambs and remove fixing screws then ease the frame out afaik.

 

[Maccapacca]

You'll be left with the end of a partition showing the ends of the plasterboard and studs which might be timber or folded steel.

It'll look nasty.

 

[Maccapacca]

You'll have to fix a strip of plasterboard where the frame was then use beads to create a corner then dub the whole wall either side in. Because the bead will be a mm or 2 it'll stick out from your plasterboard and to lose it and make a nice job it'll have to be dubbed out over the whole wall.

Plus your skirting boards will now be too short.

And your flooring will need to be extended.

 

[ChroniC]

I'd take the doors off, fill the hinge holes etc and remove the door jams. Then paint the wood. Might look tidier.

 

[Rotty]

I'd take the doors off, fill the hinge holes etc and remove the door jams. Then paint the wood. Might look tidier.

I'm going to do the same as the OP and this was my plan too

 

[Maccapacca]

I'm going to do the same as the OP and this was my plan too

I'd take the doors off, fill the hinge holes etc and remove the door jams. Then paint the wood. Might look tidier.

If you remove the architrave as well you'll have an unsightly line where the plasterboard meets the back of the door frame. If you fill it it'll crack over and over again.

 

[theone8181]

I'm going to do the same as the OP and this was my plan too

TBH i was going to do this short term, i'd even toyed with filling the step in the door frame so that its level all the way across, also one of the rooms is wallpapered so makes it easier to not remove the wood.

 

[Syla5]

Arch's are so 1980's don't do it. Taking off the doors and jam's and leaving a clean framed edge is a good first step before full removal and re-plaster is done around the whole frame area on both sides.

 

[theone8181]

Arch's are so 1980's don't do it. Taking off the doors and jam's and leaving a clean framed edge is a good first step before full removal and re-plaster is done around the whole frame area on both sides.

My plan would be to chop it out entirely long term, however in addition to the wallpaper (which due to the design of the house is this room, the stairs and the landing). Theres coving and artex to deal with so a good few days work and then some. Just removing the doors will tie us over for a while.