How To Add Door Frame In Wall (After Cutting Opening)

Did you ever wonder how to cut out and add a door frame to the middle of a stud wall?

In today's DIY we show you step by step how to add a doorway to a stud wall during your home remodeling and for all you DIY folks, we'll show you how to do it yourself.

The methods we show you here to frame a door are only for a non-load-bearing wall. Do not attempt to frame a door using this method in a load-bearing wall, because additional structural safety steps like additional wall bracing are required, not covered in this video, otherwise, your house will collapse.

This video is only to show you how to cut a doorway into a solid wall that is not a load-bearing wall. This is a project where you can do it yourself, but use common sense and be careful.

To add a door frame rough in opening to an existing solid stud wall like this, If your wall is load bearing then you must listen to our advice in this video and build a temporary stud wall to support the ceiling from sagging. until you complete the installation of the jack stud and the king stud to frame the door opening.

Once you complete the cutout and rough the framing of this doorway opening, then you can remove the temporary stud wall, which you only need for a load-bearing wall scenario.

We prefer using our trusty Sawzall to cut through the studs to then begin to frame our door opening rough in. Then we begin framing the door frame into the stud wall. After we build our door frame into the stud wall, we add reinforcement studs around the door frame.

Make sure you know what your rough opening should be, and if you plan to ever add a swinging door to this door frame opening, then you should make sure you have adequate rigid support studs and headers around the frame of the door opening.

Congratulations, after you view this video you'll know how to rough in a door opening into a solid wall, and how to add a doorway frame.

0:00 Introduction to Adding a door to a stud wall
1:12 Outline of where the new door will be
1:41 Cutting outline of the door opening through plaster wall with grinder
2:23 Saw through studs to fit the new door frame
4:15 Deciding which studs to use and where to place them
4:33 Adding new studs to the wall to frame the door opening
8:25 Check doorway for level, plumb, and square