Hi Chaps,

I've gutted my living room, taken all the old blown plaster off the walls and am about to start sticking plasterboard up onto the walls. It being an old part of the house all of the walls are solid brick, even the internal ones, its left me a bit confused as to what to do around the door frame.

Currently the door frame is only very slightly proud of the brick work, so when I put the boards up and get a skim over they're going to stand proud of the door frame. Any tips as to how to deal with this, best I'm thinking of at the moment is just to get them where they're standing proud and butt the architrave up to the edge of the plastered wall at the end?

Cheers,

GM

The purpose of the architrave is to cover the joint between the door lining and the plaster - the best method in your situation is to build out the door frame with a piece of prepared timber of a suitable thickness and dot and dab to the depth of the new timber - if you set the new piece of timber back about 3mm from the edge of the door frame it will all blend in when you fit the architrave and decorate.

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Seems really obvious now, thanks for the advice!

if its hinge side then make it a good un, screwed and glued cos if its only stopbead then the screws from the hinge will go bang through the join and it'll be loose..
sometimes easier to fit new door liners and put the plant all on one side or just wet plaster the hinge side..
firestop bead gives you loads of room though...

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