Interior Door Height Above Floor

Would we leave interior doors at 8 in this scenario.

Interior door height above floor.

Fixed or operable windows must include safety glass if they measure larger than 9 feet square the bottom edge is less than 18 inches above the floor the top edge is more than 36 inches above the. On the inside of the entry door finished flooring is laid on the concrete or wood sub. To fix the issue the doors need to be removed bottom of the jambs cut and reset the door. That is a lot of room for unlevel you have there.

Then the interior transoms would start at 8 high and drop down roughly 12. I have never seen a door set with that big of a gap unless it was to get past floors that were not level. The international building code has established doorknob height between 34 and 48 inches above a finished floor. The awi gives no minimum but a maximum of over 3 4 is unacceptable.

Thresholds at doorways shall not exceed 3 4 inch 19 1 mm in height above the finished floor or landing for sliding doors serving dwelling units or 1 2 inch 12 7 mm above the finished floor or landing for other doors. 2 move the windows down to 8 reduce the size of the exterior doors on the main floor to 6 8 standard and put a transom above each one of the exterior doors so that they match the top of the windows. Figure 2 floor relative to entry door. I just took a quick look at some of standards and regulations governing door undercut which is the distance between a door and finished floor as opposed to clearance which is door to sub floor.

Most entry door frames have a piece of lumber below the door and combined with the metal threshold will raise the base of the door off the concrete or wood sub floor by approximately 1 1 4 inches as shown in figure 2. Installers typically drill the hole centered 36 inches above the floor if not specifically instructed to do so differently exceptions to the rule include doors that provide egress into swimming pools or other water features.