This will give you room to space the door frame off of the sub floor.
Rough opening for 60 inch french doors.
Steves sons 60 in.
Presuming the door is a 36 inch wide door the dimensions of your opening should be 37 inch wide by 81 inch tall.
Typically a pre hung door is measured in 30 inch and 36 inch sizes with additional sizes available in non standard widths.
The required size of the finished opening for a 48 by 80 inch door is 48 by 82 inches.
Just add 2 to the width of the actual door size.
The rough opening would be 40 1 2 x 86 1 4 for a 3 0 x 7 0 door frame.
4 11 1 4 and the doors are.
This allows for 1 2 inch thick drywall on both sides and at the top 80 inches for the doors and hardware and a 1 to 1 1 2 inch space under the door the space between the floor and the bottom of the door may vary depending on the type of flooring.
Getting the rough opening size right the first time will save you from frustration when installing your doors.
The rough opening should be 49 by 82 for a 48 by 80 inch door.
The doors are also a standard 80 inches tall.
Framing rough opening sizes are really quite simple.
So for the rough opening all you would have to do is minus the thickness of whatever you are using to finish it with.
Krosswood doors 60 in.
Sidelites model m6410 103010 ct 4ilh 14.
To get the total width multiply the width of each door by 2 and add 2 inches.
Rustic knotty alder 2 panel arch top both active solid core wood double prehung interior french door 2 model phid ka 121 50 68 138 aa.
So if each door measures 30 inches wide the width of the rough opening should be 62 inches.
Savannah clear 6 lite lhis mahogany stained wood prehung front door with double 10 in.
Of frame is 40 x 86 as the frame face is 2 around all 3 sides.
Many manufacturers make a so called 5 french door in which the rough opening is exactly 5 0 wide but that means that the opening is 5 0 the door frame is approx.
The finished opening should be just about the same size.