Detailed Measuring in Construction

Detailed Measuring List

• Door and Frame
  • Includes the door, decoration on the door, ironmongery such as hinges, locksets, door stops, and hooks.
  • Also considers the door frame with or without a cill or threshold, decoration on the frame, priming the back of the frame, frame anchors
• Sundries
  • Includes any signwriting and mat sinkings

Adjustments to Structure

Deductions

• 270 mm cavity wall/1Bk or 1½ brick wall.

Additions

• Lintol/brickforce
• Turning piece/centering
• Building the cavity solid at reveals
• DPCs (vertically)
• Triangular cement fillet
• DPC at lintol

Adjustments to Finishes

Deductions

• Internal cement plaster on walls.
• Primer, undercoat, and finishing coats.
• Tiles and plaster backing
• Skirtings, including priming the backs and decoration.
• External finishes.

Additions

• Internal plaster on narrow widths (reveal and head of door).
• Paint on last item.
• External finish (plaster or facebrick?). Plaster will be in narrow widths - to reveals and head.
• Paint on last item (if applicable).
• Unreinforced concrete in surface bed.
• Screed on concrete floors.
• Floor finish on screed (carpets/vinyl/ceramic tiles, etc.)
• Brass or other dividing strips.
• Skirtings added back to reveals, including priming the backs and decoration.
• Steps (if required).

Information Required

• Quality and species of timber
• Thickness (usually 45 mm)
• Type of door (f.l.&b, panelled, glazed, etc.)
• Number of leaves
• Type of meeting stiles if double doors
• Overall size measured from inside of frame rebate to inside of frame rebate
• Labours applying to the whole door (e.g., moulded one side).
• Number of panels and whether to be solid or glass panes
• Size of the actual various members of the door
• Size, shape, and type of glazing beads, weatherboards, etc.
• Method of hanging (e.g., folding, sliding, swinging, etc.)

Flush Doors

• Manufactured from different cores and faced with either commercial or decorative veneers — hollow core; semi-solid and solid core flush doors are available either as stock or can be purpose-made.

Standard Doors

• Hollow Core Flush Panel Door
  • Egg grid cardboard core
  • Hardboard strips
  • Hardboard core veneered, pre-painted
  • Lock rails
• Semi-Solid Core Flush Panel Door
  • Tongue and groove boarding
  • Battens
  • V-Joints
  • Style
  • Lock rail
  • Brace
  • Bottom rail
• Solid Core Flush Panel Door
  • Chipboard on pine core
  • Hardboard strips
  • Pre-painted hardboard with mouldings
  • Hardboard facing
• Facing to Flush Panel Door
  • Square joints
• Brace & Ledge Door
  • Hardwood veneer lacing
• Frame, Brace & Ledge Door (Open Back)
  • Top rail
  • Glass panels
  • Glazing bars
  • Muntin
  • Lock rail
  • Brace
  • Bottom rail
• F.L.& B Door with Flush Back Panel
  • Top rail
  • Flush panel
• Brace & Ledge V-Joint & Flush Back Square Joint Bolection
• Fielded Panel
• Glass/ Panel Door
• 3 Ply Panel or Glass
• Double Sided F.L.& B Door
  • Haunchion
• Mortice & Tenon Joint Wedge
• Alternative
  • Planted dowels

Flush Panel Doors

• Hollow Core Door
• Standard size 813 x 2032 thickness 40 mm for veneered and hardboard doors respectively.
• Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame with lock block and hinge block on one side only and core of expanded paper.
• Supplied with or without concealed edges.
• Faces available: Ultraboard, Masonite, and veneered only.
• Used as internal door only, mainly domestic.
• Mass ± 16 kg
• Semi Solid Door (Alpha)
• Standard size 813 x 2032 thickness 40 mm for veneered and hardboard doors respectively.
• Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame with double top and bottom rails and lock blocks and hinge blocks fitted to both sides.
• Supplied with 2 concealed edges only and face veneer over edges.
• Faces available: Masonite, veneer, and plastic laminates.
• Used as internal door only, domestic, commercial, and institutional.
• Mass ± 21 kg

Solid Laminated Door (Alpha)

• Solid laminated Door (Alpha)
  • Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame, with solid softwood core laminated with decorative veneers on both faces.
  • Supplied with concealed edges.
  • Faces available: Veneers and plastic laminates.
  • Used as internal door.
  • Mass ± 32 kg
• Solid laminated Exterior Door (Alpha)
  • Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame with solid softwood core laminated with decorative veneers on both faces.
  • Supplied with concealed edges.
  • Faces available: Veneers and plastic laminates.
  • Used as external door only, domestic, commercial, and institutional.
  • External finish suitable for external usage.
  • Mass ± 37 kg

Solid Core Door (Alpha)

• Solid Core Door (Alpha)
  • Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame with solid core of particleboard overlaid with decorative veneers on both faces.
  • Supplied with concealed edges.
  • Faces available: Veneers, plastic laminates.
  • Used as internal door only.
  • Can be glazed
  • Mass ± 25 kg

Solid Core Exterior Door (Alpha)

• Solid Core Exterior Door (Alpha)
  • Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame, with solid core of particleboard overlaid with decorative veneers on both faces.
  • Supplied with concealed edges.
  • Faces available: Veneers, plastic laminates.
  • Used as external door only.
  • External finish suitable for external usage.
• Mass ± 30 kg

Engineered Timber Door (Alpha)

• Engineered Timber Door (Alpha)
  • Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame & solid, engineered timber core.
  • Single, solid core of engineered timber which, together with lock rail, hinges, and top rail, make it very strong.
  • Supplied with or without concealed edges.
  • Can be stained, (high quality finish for a natural wood look) or painted.
  • Used as an internal door only.
  • Mass ± 23 kg

Engineered Timber Exterior Door (Alpha)

• Engineered Timber Exterior Door (Alpha)
• Specification: Constructed from KD softwood frame & solid engineered timber core.
• Single, solid core of engineered timber which, together with lock rail, hinges, and top rail, make it very strong.
• Supplied with or without concealed edges.
• Can be stained, (high quality finish for a natural wood look) or painted.
• Used as external door only.
• Mass ± 28 kg