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How to Hang a Door That is NOT Prehung

May 05, 2020
Hi, I'm Dave Osborne. I'm here at my brother's house and he has some new

door

s that he wanted me to

hang

. Typically in new construction we use pre-assembled

door

s and frames together, but in this case we just go. to

hang

forward on the frame, it already exists, the first thing you want to do is place the door against the gym, make sure it fits, you want to be really precise with these things, have the hinges in the jam and mark the door hinge . using a tool called a stop marker Stanley takes them out here is a photo now this just marks it doesn't cut it they just stamp it so you can see the mark the hinge left you always go to the inside of the door inside the room it opens on the door put your butt marker against it now this is old school we usually use this we use a router for this okay I haven't done this for about how many years this sets the depth of the uh the digital first of all when we were doing this at work, we would have to erase the door support a little, we just cut a saw slot, as the door would stay perfectly vertical, foreign, it's okay, it's better to take a little bit at a time rather than too much, If you remove too much, simply fit a small large tail with some cardboard underneath.
how to hang a door that is not prehung
I've done it many times, great, so I have another little tool that you love, it's called center. With a punch and spring, it will give you the center of any hole so you can mark the screws. I've had it for years. It is another Stanley product. I believe it has a tapered end, so it automatically centers in the gunner's sunken hole. of your hinge now these doors are pretty soft wood so you don't have to pre-drill them okay we'll do the other one okay let's see how good we are okay now we're a little out so we need a spring, okay, there you go, now you can see this one is a little tight on the hinge here.
how to hang a door that is not prehung

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I usually use a wrench and bend it. Fold these two together and you can see it's tighter here than it is here, so what am I going to do? It's just take this pin out of here, take a wrench. I'm trying to get a bigger one. I have a 12 inch at home and usually use two lobes instead of folding three. I just fold the two lobes, like this I want to come out this way so you fold it there and fold this one on the same hinge. That's the carpenter's trick, don't tell anyone no, I have to go to school for four years to learn that we have our latch plate and now what. what you would want to do is take the center of that straight plate and mark it so we can match it to the door, so mark that, okay, we want a two and three quarter inch backset, that's the distance from the edge of the door. to the center of the knob and to the edge of the door to the center of the mouthpiece, that is the rear assembly two three quarters this is adjustable, you can see it two and three eighths or two and three quarters the old doors are two and three eighths and the newer ones are two and three quarters, so I'm just measuring the back and squaring it from our mark on the edge of the door.
how to hang a door that is not prehung
We used a two and one eighth door closer. I'll close the door just to make sure it's accurate when the point goes through the other side, stop and go the other way foreign, there you have it, then you'll get the center of this inch and three-eighths of level six States another 16. thank you , there you go, foreign latches now this is a game of passages, so the screws always go inside a room, there you have it, it's amazing.
how to hang a door that is not prehung

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