PVCu doors with cill have to be set a long way down from the floor if you don't want a great big lip to climb over. If I set the PVCu door lower than the finished floor level where the DPC is, what do you do with the DPC when it reaches the doorway ? Take it vertically down the step in the brick, take it up the side of the door, or what ? Thanks, Simon.
Sorry to hi-jack your thread Simon but that lip you're on about is this a building regs thing as its an accident waiting to happen for a couple of my neighbours as they are into their late 60's and they just forget about the
20mm upstand,Ive even had my reflex's tested the other day as my immediate neighbour came to their door and forgot about the upstand.My reflex's are fine though. :-)
Thus my desire to set the door down. Mind you there are 3 levels possible: recess the sill if using one, recess the door frame, recess the upstand that the door seals against (so whole thing is flush). Obviously the last one can only be done if the door is opening outwards and the ground level outside is lower (as it should be). Not sure which I will go for.
To answer my own original question, I guess it does not matter. Obvious thing is to take the DPC under the door frame.
Simon.
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