Arched Door Frame Construction

Although this project is a little more challenging than creating a standard door from scratch you can design and build an arch top door for your own home to.

Arched door frame construction.

Leave the frame in place for 24 hours until the cement dries. 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. Over on the header and 13 in. It can also be easily installed to metal framing.

Down on the stud to install see diagram in the picture gallery above. Use your cutout wood pieces as a pattern for your drywall. This will be the bottom plane of the arch. Click on photo to enlarge.

Universal arch kit comes preformed to a 13 in. Measure your door carefully and cut the opening to fit using a reciprocating saw. Up from the floor the common height for interior doors. A typical door opening is 2 inches 5 1 cm wider than the door size being installed to allow for the thickness of the jamb material and shims to plumb the jamb.

Rip several pieces of wood blocking to the width of your framing lumber minus the thickness of the two pieces of plywood in this case a 2 4 minus two 3 8 in. Hold a board that s the same width as your doorway at the top of the door frame so there s 1 2 in 1 3 cm of space on either side of it. An arch top door can be an expensive investment due to the nonstandard design of the outer frame. Screw 2 1 2 in 6 4 cm boards onto the corners of your door frame.

Radius and it is not bendable simply mark 13 in. Pieces of plywood equals 2 3 4 inch wide blocking 3. Measure layout and cut two plywood arches that represent the top of your arched door opening. The size of the door opening will vary depending on the size of the door you plan to install.

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. Any doorway any opening the universal arch kit can do it all. Drive screws into the middle of the board every 3 4 inches 7 6 10 2 cm to secure it in place.

With two studs framing the door opening mark both sides of the opening 80 in. Determine the size of the door opening. However such a door adds a lot of class to a room and will look great in any setting. After marking the arch on your drywall cut out the curved portion of the drywall with a jig saw as shown right.

Here s how to frame it.