What is the threshold/dpc detail on upvc french doors?

May 17, 2006 3 Replies

Gonna be chopping out a window, putting in some upvc french doors an



running 25mm insulation with wooden flooring in to the frame internall at the threshold.



The wall is typical cavity construction (102/75/100) and the door fram is fixing to the outer skin. The internal floor slab has no DPM under i (there will however be one between the UFH and the wooden flooring)



I gonna sit the frame on a DPC but what happens about the open cavit at the threshold as the wooden flooring is to run over it?



Do I concrete it up level with the DPC, but wont that cause damp prob with bridging the cavity?



Or do I somehow lap on to the DPC a piece of DPM, down the void and u the otherside then concrete fill the cavity


-- Cordless Crazy


I think this is a case for Mr Expanding Foam frankly.

Waterproof and insulative. A cold and wet barrier in one.

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