Minimum door height

[G&M]

Is there any standard for the minimum door height ?

Building regs K1 require a minimum height of 2m for stairs and landings but I can't find anything for doors.

I'm having to replace several rotten wooden lintels above quite low (about 5

1/2 feet) door frames (actually the door frame formed part of the lintel) so have to meet regulations but can't find anything on how high I have to install the new lintel.

Or can I just put it at the existing height and require everybody to duck as they enter rooms :-) ?

[BigWallop]

I think new interior doors are all around the 1,981 mm (6ft 6inches) in height by 686 mm (2ft 3inches) in width, and exterior doors give a bit of a wider opening at around the 850 mm (2ft 9inches) in width. These are about the standard sizes today.

[Rick Dipper]

Sir

I had a bit of a ding-dong with an architect who designed a door too low to walk through, he insisted it passed building regs as there is no minimum door height in the regs. However being the prod owenr of an old house with low doors, I recommend that you keep then as tall as possible, my head still gets wacked when I mis juege in the middle of the night ......

Rick

[Michael Mcneil]

There is plenty of information on here about putting new lintles in a wall. All you have to worry about is the clearance inside. Are the ceilings low? Why was the original doorway low in the first place?

If you do go the whole hog and put them in for a full size frame or one as high as possible, you might want to consider moving the whole entrance if there is a more suitable spot for it.

[G&M]

That's not a problem. Apart from the BCO insisting on lintel calculations.

What clearance do you mean ?

A bit. Not sillily so like some old cottages though.

Because the previous idiot owner was trying to give it that old cottage feel I think.

[garyhearne5]

2.m 30..high 900. Wide

[John Rumm]

...is probably the wrong answer!

Minimum door height for what anyway?

A standard UK internal door is usually 1981mm tall and 762mm wide (or about 2'6" x 6'6").

[bert]

In article , John Rumm writes

Ours are 2042 x 720 approx. "metric" size according to the builder in

1979, Well there was a transport strike on at the time. Bastard size if ever there was one.

[jgh]

I thought six-six by two-six was so embedded into British house building to be effectively a standard.

[Mike Humphrey]

What standard? I think all the doors in my house are a different size. Just checked some: 5'11"x2'6", 5'11"x2'0", 4'9"x3'6" (duck!), 6'3"x2'3",

6'6"x2'5", 6'1"x2'9".

Mike

[John Rumm]

2040 x 726 is a fairly easy size to get hold of...

[jgh]

The six-six by two-six standard.

[mechanic]

Two foot six seems a little narrow for wheelchairs - aren't there accessibility requirements on new houses these days?

[bert]

A quick look in B&Q and out of all the range only two styles are that size - pre-painted and soft pine.

[John Rumm]

I have ordered some from here in the past:

They seem to have a pretty wide range of size options.

[bert]

Thanks for that I'll bear it in mind - seems a very slow web site though.

[rmlaws54]

Watch out for a detached retina in later life :-(

Robert

[whisky-dave]

I pass this place quite often the Door shop.

as you can se from teh picture it's small.