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Can you Fit a Steel Door to a Timber Frame?
When you buy a steel doorset you are buying a door which has a tested and approved specification, which is the result of testing a steel door panel with a steel outer fixing sub frame.
The relationship between the steel door leaf and the fixing frame is crucial and all the major components - hardware, locking, weatherseals and any thresholds, all exist in harmony between the panel and the sub frame.
With a steel doorset with any ratings for fire, security, acoustics and so on, the compliance and certification is based on an exact build and testing which used specifics in the size, dimensions and combination of parts.
For compliance the doorset has to be exactly the same every time it is built within some parameters of size, colour and options.
Fitting a steel door to a timber sub frame is not an option although you could fit a steel doorset to a timber surround which effectively is the aperture and strcutural opening, but you would do so using the steel sub frame of the doorset....
