Bathroom door dimensions - standard indicators

It is believed that the dimensions of the doorway to the shower room are not something important from the point of view of arranging the room. However, the bathroom is a room with difficult operating conditions. High humidity, condensation, steam, temperature changes, as well as other negative factors do not have the best effect on finishing materials. The door frame is also subject to this effect.

In addition, it protects the rest of the premises from the spread of dampness, microorganisms and other things. The size of the front door directly affects the quality of its functions. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly select the interior flooring to ensure proper care of the home. However, in this matter there are quite a large number of pitfalls and nuances.

Naturally, when choosing the dimensions of the door frame, all of them, without exception, must be taken into account. By engaging a specialist with the proper experience, you can avoid problems that arise, but what to do when you need to do everything yourself? In principle, choosing the entrance door to the bathroom is a fairly simple matter. First, you should find out all the necessary information on the assortment, as well as the method of selecting interior flooring of standard or non-standard sizes.

Standard products

Today, general standards have been adopted regulating the sizes of interior openings and entrance doors to the bathroom, respectively. Modern manufacturers must comply with accepted standards, so all products have the same dimensions. The door frame has a height of 2 m. The standard width parameters are slightly different and can be of the following sizes:

100 cm;
90 cm;
80 cm;
70 cm;
60 cm;
40 cm.

Housing built according to earlier designs, for example, houses built in Soviet times, have their own characteristics. Thus, Khrushchev-type apartments have an opening width of 60 cm, and new buildings are narrower - 70 or 80 cm. Partly this was done in order to improve the standard needs of the owners, as well as to eliminate the problem of installing household appliances, plumbing fixtures, and metal products for decoration. They simply could not squeeze into the narrow door frames due to their size into the bathroom and toilet.

Modern showers, Jacuzzis and other elements often have non-standard dimensions. Thus, their installation seems to be a very difficult undertaking in a room where the entrance door does not have the proper width. A wider opening in modern houses, for example, 80 or 90 cm, makes it much easier to install plumbing.

However, a significant disadvantage of such a box in the bathroom and toilet is the loss of usable space.

A certain comfort of the room disappears, but it becomes more accessible and comfortable to use. To minimize some losses, you can install a compact washing machine or a small washbasin in the shower room and toilet. In addition, based on the total area of the bathroom space, you can eliminate the linen drawer. Such measures will allow you to slightly increase the usable area of the room.

Installation nuances

According to GOST, modern houses must have a certain height and width of the door frame. These requirements are taken into account by manufacturers of entrance doors to bathrooms and toilets. However, there are times when the parameters initially do not meet the requirements or you need to correct them yourself.

Openings of 60 and 70 cm are considered standard parameters, but 80–90 cm is no longer a standard.
The height of 2 m for a shower room is practically unchanged. It is changed only in exceptional cases, for example, for an original designer interior or installation of metal structures for decoration.
In practice, it often happens that the actual width, or less often the height, is several millimeters larger than the standard dimensions. Usually the reason is the use of a finishing material that increases the size of the canvas. Why is it possible to expand the opening to the bathroom and toilet, otherwise the front door will not fit in width or height. However, there are cases when this is not always possible, for example, tiling walls.
You shouldn't destroy your own home over small details. The way out of this situation may be as follows. You can leave the cladding, and reduce the interior opening to the bathroom and toilet to standard sizes. Then the width and height will remain at the proper level, and there will be no problems with installing plumbing fixtures or other metal products. To do this, you will need to make certain calculations for the front door. All this must be done before purchasing the ceiling, i.e. take careful measurements.