Tips on building and installing round top door jambs.
Arched door jamb construction.
Question i have been asked to bid a double entry door with a 3 3 radius arch.
Building an arched door jamb for an arched door.
Door jamb frames consist of two vertical legs or side jambs and a horizontal board at the top called the head jamb.
Our normal construction is bricklaid segment arches glued up for jamb width then sawn to the final curve then a face lamination is added to clean it all up.
Arched door jamb joinery tips on building and installing round top door jambs.
Arched openings are made by building a plywood form to fill in the top of a right angle doorway requiring two arched plywood panels one for each side with filler pieces in between.
Building an arched jamb.
Plywood make up a full inch and door openings if framed with 2 4 s are actually 3 1 2 in.
Two pieces of 1 2 in.
I plan to do a glue up of 1 8 strips or use kerfkore for.
July 25 2010.
When the door is attached with hinges to the completed jamb frame the entire assembly is referred to as a prehung door.
The finished edge casing reveal is clean and tidy so is never an issue.