The crawlspace doors on my house have rusted so badly do to moisture that I have to replace them. I have corrected the moisture problem and bought the new doors and primed and painted them, but now want to know if there is a another way to replace them without tearing out, or at least knocking out the brick above the steel lintel of the access door frame, and one side of brick in order to get the door frame lip to fit in behind the brick and then replacing the the brick and trying to match the color of the mortar.
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Are you doing the jamb also?
The access doors have a one piece frame with a metal door that fits inside this frame and locks. So the jam is an integral part of the metal frame. The frame was put in-place as the brick masons layed-up the brick surrounding the crawl space.
Is the door hinged and removeable?
The door is removable.
Rework the jamb. Hang new door in the old jamb.