{"id":123,"date":"2024-11-17T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2024-12-07T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T19:54:47","slug":"frameless-door-installation-instructions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/frameless-door-installation-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Frameless Door Installation Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2 different types of Frameless Door<\/a> Installation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Concealed Door Installation with Aluminum Frames<\/h3>\n

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Concealed Aluminum Frames are installed much the same way as standard door frames.\u00a0 That means they are placed in the rough opening, then get shimmed into a level and plumb position and then screwed into the studs.\u00a0 Afterwards the drywall is attached to the walls and since Frameless Aluminum Frames have a place where the drywall sits (see BA13 in diagram above), the drywall simply butts into the frame in the pre-designed location.\u00a0 Then the hinges can be installed and door slab can be hung.\u00a0 The drywall can then be mudded.\u00a0 The Aluminum Frame does not get mudded with drywall compound.\u00a0 That means that there is no physical connection between drywall and frame.\u00a0 That is a good thing because if the door frame ever vibrates or shakes when you close it with too much force, the adjacent mudded and painted drywall will not be affected and cannot crack and be damaged.\u00a0 Lastly the wall, invisible frame and door will get painted to all blend into each other achieving the desired frameless door look.<\/p>\n

Frameless Door<\/a> Installation with Wood Frames<\/h3>\n

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Wooden Frameless Door Frame Installation also starts off the same way as with the Aluminum frames.\u00a0 You place the frame in the rough\u00a0 opening, shim it and then screw it into plumb and level position.\u00a0 However, wooden frameless door frames require the drywall to be installed before the frame goes in.\u00a0 The reason for this is that the Wooden Frame has a drywall angle attached to it that overlaps the drywall when the frame gets installed (see FW-Angle in diagram above).\u00a0 Now the major difference becomes apparent:\u00a0 After the frame is in and the drywall angle overlaps the drywall, the drywall compound is used to hide the interface where drywall angle and drywall meet.\u00a0 It is the same idea and similar procedure as joining 2 sheets of drywall with drywall mud.\u00a0 Once correctly mudded and painted the interface between door frame and drywall will be totally hidden and it will appear as if there is no door frame at all.\u00a0 When installing Wooden Frameless Doors<\/a> it is therefore important to use Low Expansion installation foam around the perimeter of the door frame (between studs and frame) to reduce possible vibrations to avoid future drywall compound cracking at the interface of frame and wall.<\/p>\n

Crooked Walls and Frameless Door Installation<\/h3>\n

A note on the wall make-up when installing Frameless Doors:\u00a0 It is crucial that the wall (and Rough Opening in particular) is as plumb as possible.\u00a0 The frameless door frame has to follow the wall and drywall to give you that flush look.\u00a0 You don’t want the installed door to swing open or close by itself after the install if the wall is not plumb.\u00a0 However, the 3-D Hidden Hinges which are commonly used with frameless doors, are adjustable and can compensate for minor wall problems in most cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2 different types of Frameless Door Installation Concealed Door Installation with Aluminum Frames Concealed Aluminum Frames are installed much the same way as standard door frames.\u00a0 That means they are placed in the rough opening, then get shimmed into a level and plumb position and then screwed into the studs.\u00a0 Afterwards the drywall is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61877,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moderndesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}