{"id":9351,"date":"2020-03-18T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/swing-door-dimensions-differentiation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:46:57","slug":"swing-door-dimensions-differentiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/blog\/swing-door-dimensions-differentiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing door dimensions differentiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elements of a fire-rated smart door<\/p>\n<p>There are different types of measurements that must be taken into account when choosing a fire door and preparing the wall opening.<\/p>\n<h3>Clear Opening<\/h3>\n<p>It is the gap that remains for the passage when the door is installed and open, the useful gap that will remain for the user.<\/p>\n<h3>Structural Opening<\/h3>\n<p>It is the necessary hole to install the door, so the hole that has been left prepared in the wall to install the door frame.<\/p>\n<h3>Total Dimension<\/h3>\n<p>It is somewhat wider than the work gap, since it includes the frame overlap. That is, it is the one that is measured outside the frame overlap.<\/p>\n<p>The<b> structural opening<\/b> and the <b>total dimension<\/b> vary depending on the design or model of the frame. Thus, two doors of the same <b>clear opening<\/b> size may need two different structural openings and will also have a different total dimension.<\/p>\n<p>On the drawings below we show how to go from one dimension to another depending on whether the door frame is standard Z-shaped or U-shaped tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Door with Z frame<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1014\" height=\"1411\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/diferenciacion-medidas-marco-en-z-2.png\" alt=\"diferenciacion medidas marco en z\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nPuerta con marco en U<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1035\" height=\"1473\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/diferenciaci\u00f3n-medidas-marco-en-u-1.png\" alt=\"diferenciacion medidas marco en u\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are different types of measurements that must be taken into account when choosing a fire door and preparing the wall opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-rated-doors-installation","category-instalacion-puertas-cortafuegoprofesional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}