Have a bathroom in the basement which finished out pretty nice, custom tile shower and tile floor total cost around 6000 to build. The door will have be custom due to the height. Had to build a soffit under the ductwork which reduced the ro opening (height) to 80″. At this height I will only have about an 1.5″ to install casing on the top, inside of the door. Should I just install 1.5″ casing around the entire inside of the door or should I further reduce the ro so i can install full casing? What would youns do? I know this sounds petty but want it to look good. By the way I thought when i customed orded a door to an non standard height, it is made special to that height. The lumber yards around here tell me they that take a stanard door and cut it down. Lowes is telling me that the door is custom made to that hieght, any imput on this?.
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dan, for a partial answer . . .
I remodeled or finished my basement. In it I had a hallway with several doors leading off of it and teh hallway's ceiling was droped do to duct work as is your bathroom. I used full width moldings on the sides of the doors and rip the molding to about 1 1/2 inches to go along the top of the door and flush with the low ceiling. I think it looks fine. Obviously I would ahve preferred 9 foot ceilings throughout with 5 inche wide cherry trim and marble floors, but . . . .
And dan, you can cut your own door down yourself. Maybe I have got this wrong but it a standard door is 80 inches, with a RO of 81 or 82. If so and you ahve a RO of 80, you might only need to cut an inch off the door and jam to fit. Most hollow core doors will handle a cut off of an inche or two. Solid panel doors would look fine wiht an inche or two cut off.
Look into it and or hope for a reply from someone with more experience than I have. I ahve cut a couple of doors off in my day . . . but . . .
Definately more passage room. Depends on the casing how fancy or unfancy it is to make it look good. If you use just a square casing like a sanitary, then it should look fine.
Custom is often standard size modified a bit. Lowes doesn't want to make it sound too simple, but maybe they deal with a company that sizes each door individual...who knows.