ᐅ Flooring first or interior door installation first?

Created on: 1 Jun 2020 11:19
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Bertram100
Hello,
I have purchased a mid-terrace house from a developer. Since I want sound-insulating doors, I cannot use the door company recommended by the developer. They only install the standard doors planned for the project.

Now I am considering not having any doors installed during construction and having a specialist company fit them only after handover. At the same time, parquet flooring still needs to be installed throughout. How should I best organize these tasks?

Does anyone have experience with acoustic interior doors? I would like to have them on the bedroom doors and on the ground floor in the "living room." The "living room" will also serve as a consultation room for a psychological practice. The house will be shared by a group of people in their mid-40s. I don’t want to know what my housemate is doing in their bedroom.
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Bertram100
1 Jun 2020 11:55
OK. Sounds reasonable. I’ll do it that way. Then I just have to lay the floor correctly under the doors. That can be planned.
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guckuck2
1 Jun 2020 13:46
I would first go with the doors as they are and upgrade to solid core for the specific rooms in question at an additional cost (I assume these are not standard).
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ypg
1 Jun 2020 13:53
Bertram100 schrieb:

Because if I had taken the doors from the developer, I would have had doors first, then the flooring to be installed myself.

The order is always a compromise, often relying on floating flooring. It is more difficult to install flooring under the door frame. It is better to install the floors first, then the door frames.
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Hamburch
30 Jun 2020 08:15
Bertram100 schrieb:

Does anyone have experience with acoustic interior doors?

Who offers something like that?
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Snowy36
30 Jun 2020 21:35
I really love our solid core doors... you can’t hear anything through them despite the overflow gaps in the frame. I was worried unnecessarily... I’m more likely to hear noise through the brick wall than through these doors.
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NatureSys
3 Jul 2020 20:28
We have a soundproof door with a rubber seal at the bottom for my home office. It’s great...