Interior Door Height Off Floor

Most entry door frames have a piece of lumber below the door and combined with the metal threshold will raise the base of the door off the concrete or wood sub floor by approximately 1 1 4 inches as shown in figure 2.

Interior door height off floor.

The 2018 irc continues to require the bottom of openings created by operable windows to be a minimum height of 24 inches above the adjacent interior floor when they are more than 6 feet above the grade outside the window. Interior door height off floor. The international building code has established doorknob height between 34 and 48 inches above a finished floor. That is a lot of room for unlevel you have there.

To fix the issue the doors need to be removed bottom of the jambs cut and reset the door. The awi gives no minimum but a maximum of over 3 4 is unacceptable. Figure 2 floor relative to entry door. On the inside of the entry door finished flooring is laid on the concrete or wood sub.

I have never seen a door set with that big of a gap unless it was to get past floors that were not level. The additional room allows for a 3 4 inch top jamb a shim. The height of common doors is 6 feet 8 inches. Installers typically drill the hole centered 36 inches above the floor if not specifically instructed to do so differently exceptions to the rule include doors that provide egress into swimming pools or other water features.