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Is that 3" from both sides?
If so I think I'm totally misunderstanding something, as isn't it easiest to buy some wood the right size and nail it on?
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Could do 3” from both sides but I think it would be better to take it all from one side (you can see the line on the horizontal where I’ve marked it). Mainly because of the way the rooms are laid out currently.
I think the issue with just using wood would be making it look good after, unless I have a really wide architrave to cover it?
Pantsmaster
I need to make this archway narrower by about 6 inches to accommodate some pre-made glass doors/room divider. It was previously covered in a moulded plaster arch which we removed, leaving this wood beneath. I believe there’s a steel beam underneath the top bit, and the vertical side pieces are nailed into the brick.
To make it narrower I think my best option is to build a tiny stud wall and plasterboard over. But I think I probably also need to remove the wood that’s boxing in the steel, so I can plasterboard over that, because I’m assuming I won’t be able to skim over the existing wood.
So I think my best bet is to remove all the boxing and vertical wood pieces, build stud wall to make arch narrower, plasterboard the whole lot including the beam, then get a plasterer in to skim it all. Unless anyone here has any bright ideas to avoid any of that?