Marble Granite Door Frame
Door frame consists of three members where as window and ventilator frame consists with minimum four members. The classification of door, window and ventilator frames according to material is as under.
- Wooden door, window and ventilator frame, there are many type of wood according to their qualities and cost which are used in frames.
- Aluminum door, window and ventilator frame.
- Marble door frame, window and ventilator frame.
Wood is still most popular choice of material for construction of doors, windows and ventilators because of ease of cutting, shaping and joinery with simple hand tools. There are so many advantages and some disadvantages of installing the wooden door, window and ventilator frames which are as under.
Disadvantages
- The wooden frames are affected by termite and insects.
- Cost of the good quality timber is very high. So they are costly than metal frames but cheap in the comparison of aluminum frames.
- Suppliers/contractors provide bad quality timber which has knots, rotten pieces and due to these defects the frames destroy in a short time.
- If season wood is not used than due to this there is twisting problems found in the wooden frames.
- The wooden frames are affected by the moisture.
Because of this limitation people choice is diverting from wood to marble . There are so many advantages of installing the marble door, window and ventilator frames which are as under.
Granite Door Frame |
Marble Door Frame |
Marble Granite Door Frame
Door frames are installed to held the door in place and keep them sturdy. The other common material used for door frames is wood. But recent trend is to prefer Granite and Marble Framing. Usually these frame are 6” in width. Usually in a Home same granite is selected for Door Frame & Window Frame
Rate applied is a with unit “Per Running foot”
Cost of commonly available Granite ranges from Rs 212
Cost of Marble ranges from Rs 115
Cost of Natural Stones varies across India with quality & availability
Cost of door framing goes up as size of frame increases