How to Install A Pre Hung Door | 3 Different Ways

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s in all my years and renovations. I've seen a lot of

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techniques. some of them work, some don't, but there are three specifically that are great for DIY homeowners because you get a good result in all three different cases, so there are three techniques that I'm going to show you today, the strongest: easiest and then the cheapest, okay, so we'll start with the strongest door because it's like a bread and butter hanging door, okay, whether it's solid core or hollow core, it won't make any difference, this technique will hold your weight and it's basically, old school, right, we're using a level to probe the frame, we're using a square to make sure everything is right, we're using wooden shims, we're using long screws, a basic type typical construction style, all right, so what I want to do to start is take apart our pre-assembled door, do you know what they have here?

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invent new and stupid ways to try it. to put these plugs in there we go and then you have to take out the pins there we go okay let's get rid of our slab for now we'll come back to that in a minute just because pre-

hung

doors doesn't mean you want to leave it on the door frame while you work , yeah, there's not a lot of mercy here, okay, so let's talk about doors real quick because you want to get an idea of ​​what's going on.

This is a thirty-inch hole that opens up the wood, so we have A 28-inch door traditionally has a thickness of 5/8, which gives it 3/8 of an inch, which is just a few millimeters of mercy if it's not level or p.m. So what we do is we put this against the frame with its nice long five and six foot level and now I almost have to go all the way to the other side to get that plumb line, that's just great, so now we want to check here. See what the condition of the door is. Wow, now if you're building it yourself, leave yourself the full two inches.

Don't inevitably cheat. This is what happens, so now I'm here tied up against the wall. We know. from that corner to the top of this I have to pull. I'm crooked in the frame now and this has enough room. I'm going to have just a hair to remove the wall jamb at the bottom. We are lucky? It was close if it doesn't fit the hole you have to grab your slab, grab your portable planer, you have to resize the door to fit the hole you're stuck in, so make sure you frame your holes big enough, fortunately in this The job we choose to clean up someone else's mess halfway is not my favorite way to work, but it is a great learning opportunity, so what we are going to do in this situation is we now know that our door It will fit, it will be plumb and there is enough room, but you also want to make sure you are level on the bottom now.

If you have a shorter level, it might be beneficial here, let's review and see what we're looking at. This is sinking in on this side. What that means is we're going to take a wedge and we're going to prop this one up. Why am I talking about that? Let's prove it. I'm in the relatively square hole and I'm just getting off to a good start and I know it. this is very low and if it's low that means it's not going to be square, so if I put my right and I can pick it up and it's square and about a quarter of an inch up, then we're just going to drop this on the ground.

I'm going to use this to space it out until I'm really happy, so now I have my spacer because we're all twisted up here. I need 14 hands again. I'll keep it in place now there are a couple different ways to do it. This guys, feel free if you have a door where you can remove the inside door jamb, this is the door stop, it's fine and usually comes separately. There are models like Masonite that makes the door, the door stop is molded and they can do it. I'm not removing it, so what I'm doing is I'm using a three-inch screw and starting flush with the front edge and I'm going to lift this door about 32 inches off the ground.

It has no direct contact with the concrete now. I have no reason to assume that this will be a plumb frame, no it is not if you take wedges from two different directions and put them together in the middle of a door like this and you will get a nice square door, you only come to it from a side you will turn the frame right so it is very important wherever you can reach from two different directions okay get on your level now this is funny because levels are usually made to fit between the door stop and the hinge pin.

In fact, you can go through all three hinges. Check the level carefully. It was an amazing assumption, here we go. Here's the fun part, pushing a little further. on the wedge before I do this when I'm putting my screw right behind the molding, okay and the idea here behind why this is so high is because it's comfortable. I'm getting old, so this is where I stand. I mean, this isn't rocket science. I want to put a pack of shims near the top just to help stabilize this because what happens over time is if areas like this are not taken care of nice and tight, they will move and that's where your door will end up getting stuck, so we're going to make sure it's nice and tight by putting in our last screw on this side.

Hello, I want to be careful with the spinning wedges. Okay, it's actually pretty dangerous. Now there are only a couple of goals you want. To get here you want your jam to be flush with the wall, nice on the top and bottom, and you want to get this plumb, you can check the work with your square and it should be pretty perfect, just a little warning here . This is really dangerous and when one day I got a scar on my hand from doing this, yeah, I cut the wedge and held it like that and broke the shin.

I don't know what I was thinking through my hand. That was interesting in the hospital. so I drove and had a coffee at the coffee shop on the way to the hospital because you know in Canada you're going to be sitting there for a while, we don't have any hospital with a sign outside that says guaranteed five minutes. The wait time for us can be three to five hours, but thank goodness it's free. I guess that's our consolation prize. Anyway, I got to the hospital and they had paramedics there doing a triage that even all the kids at school and because I use my duct tape. close the window and I was able to reach out and undo the duct tape and open my hand and they could see the inside of my hand, another good reason to use duct tape because they always want to diagnose the problem before I put you in a waiting room to receive the treatment.

I was able to take my tape and just wrap it again to keep it from bleeding. Beautiful, here we go. This is where this gets interesting now that you have the hinge side. of the established door is plumb is flush its square everything is fine you hang the door again and then you just fish just this side so everything fits so even if you are a little bit out of square a little bit out of plumb once you this is set you hang the door you can move this to do whatever you need to do to make your door look nice and that's the best DIY technique you can get so if you'll excuse me I'm going to hang my door and then Put my pins back into your pens, it will go in relatively easy and if it doesn't, you'll know because you won't be able to get your pins in.

Here we go, how we do it. I just close the door and see how it fits and I'm looking for a level just right when I close the door. I want it to touch the top and bottom together and it looks like this corner of the building is crooked, so we're happy with the space at the top and because I'm Then I'll manipulate the door frame at the top, here are the secret guys , if your stuff isn't nice and level you can always take your knife and cut away some of the drywall that will be sticking out, that's fine and you can trim it.

Thanks, it's okay. so when you put your casing in it's not as aggressive, we've raised it like a lump so you can put your casing in there, draw your line, cut the drywall back a little bit and then nail your casing in, you can pretend that it was. sometimes it's not easy at all and you can spend all day adjusting everything in your house so that it works perfectly where you just learn to do things like this so you can adjust things on the fly and get on with your life, remember The point of doing renovations at home is not spending your entire life fixing your house, doing it and then enjoying the rest of the weekend.

I think three is very good for slightly twisted frames, so I'll do two on this side. here we go, that's better, yes, too thick, now this is the advantage of having the door already placed there, we would like to put it in place, check the space, okay, you should have a little space here, there is not much that you can run. in trouble in the future, especially being in the basement, so feel free to give yourself a little more space, here we go, but make sure the door stop closes off the space you want to have privacy when you're in the bathroom, after all, and someday at the bottom.

Along the way, they are going to spend some money and finish the rest of this renovation and this space will be a bathroom, but not the ones of today. For me, I decide again and I like to put them near the latch, just so you have a nice solid feeling when you close the door hey, now we have something worth talking about, okay, you know, don't forget, you know what. what you're working with is never going to be square, now we're going to be straight, things turn, turn and Bend, I see a little bit of pressure here and I have an arc now, if I don't have this here, it's actually already bent, like this so what I want to do is figure out where it's tight, that's how you get rid of a bow. a door now throw your shoes back and then push yes now she's straight well here we are the reason I'm putting the screws and behind the door stop is because visually when the doors close you can't see the repair, this is nice and clean. and it doesn't open up anything on the surface, it paints really nice and this is like an MDF for the main hallway so that's where I like to hide them back there if you want and you have the opportunity to remove the stops, that's great, it's a lot further. works and if you are working in your basement you are putting in eight or nine doors.

Do you have a way to do it and get on with your day? Not a bad plan instead of drinking to break them, feel free to just cut them off. off mm-hmm okay, here we go, that wasn't too bad, that was pretty fast, now that's the strongest door system and the reason we call it the strongest is because we're using construction screws, look, That's a good space I have. three of them on each side and that gives me 500 pounds of pure force, so when these doors close, it's going to take a lot of energy to kick that sucker, which really shouldn't be your first goal in a basement if you like to build. things that stay still that's a great way to do it now the next way we're going to do it will be the easiest way to do it mm-hmm you'll be able to see the difference okay door number two we're I'll do it in a quick and easy way and this will cost a few dollars.

I will warn you that both major hardware stores had a version of a similar system. The idea is just a metal bracket that is screwed to the wall doors first. Hang it boom, you're done, it's not as simple as you'd like to think, but for 13 bucks if you don't want to get involved and if you're working alone and aren't familiar with hanging a door, it can be quite frustrating. It may not be a bad investment. I have never used this system before in my life, but I had a video of another door on our site that was going through the process and someone said, "You want to buy the clip system much easier." so I decided to buy the clip system and try this yes in theory it seems very quick and simple and I love the concept but we will see if it is as easy as the package suggests so same process I don't care which system When using the hanging door, you need to know if your floor is level because you are building on the floor.

I already checked and it's fine and in this system I have two different types of nails or screws, sorry dear, oh my goodness, that thick thread drywall. The screw we're going to hang on the door with is better than the fine thread, I guess, sothis will take a minute. We have a lot of screws to

install

here. I didn't say this is the fastest, just the easiest, so hold on. we do this we're going to turn the door right and we're going to put one of these brackets on yeah let's make sure she's going to play ball we're going to put it on yeah let me show you the bracket boom boom boom so it's got these small teeth, okay, and it has an adjustable screw here and it has this plate here, the idea is because you screw it to the jam in these three holes here, okay, and then you put a screw through the surface on the wall that you're putting the door, and then the case will cover all this hardware, it seems pretty simple in theory, so let's do it.

It suggests installing them on each hinge and the corresponding ones on the other side, which means that it is 24 screws that you have to install to lift a door and this may be easy to do yourself, but I don't know if it will necessarily be the fastest, that is safe, you really want to make sure you get the screw in and the furthest part of the hole in before you do. start so you don't accidentally pull these tabs out is that it will interfere with your housing and ultimately affect the final look of the number thirteen, fourteen and fifteen screws, and I need a third hand again because they are a Phillips screw, which is lovely, it's very easy to work with phillips screws, they always want to stay on the bit after a solid half hour of screwing in the clips, we are ready to go, here we are now again.

I put a shim on the side of my hinge. You got to be kidding. Oh, whoever frames this house needs to receive a slight correction. People in the comments section tell me not to complain about what other people do, but then they do things like this and you want to just beat them up like that, yeah. If you make the hole the same width at the bottom, middle and top, you will be successful in hanging the doors. I think this might fit the hole. Now let's try this again for the first time. There is one thing we are missing.

It's one thing that What I did with my brilliance was that I forgot that since I was installing this, I wanted to put the pins on the side of the hinges, so that it is attached where the hinge is attached to the jamb, not on the other side of the jamb, could cause this. to warp over time, but I'm in an unfinished room so I actually have to add the thickness of a sheet of drywall here because the door jamb is cut to the width of a Finnish law, not unfinished , so if I don't install this first, oh hey Joe, I'm starting to think these clips make it really easy, but only if you're in a finished space, Dad, if I did my usual shims and six screws here, there would already be finished, okay, attach the 18. screws to the inside of the door where the hinges are and in a straight line, place them in a hole on the hinge side in a wedge and that will guarantee you a little bit of flexibility to close the gap.

Well, you simply want to slide the door onto the hinge. here, left and right, okay, check, check the space at the top of the door, if you don't like the space, move the bottom away from the walls, you can do that if you have a space that looks pretty good. I like that you're Thinking we can install the door there, this looks like an inch inside on the inch and a half grill. I'm going to pull this nice and tight and since there's force to go in that direction, I'm going to put the screw on the outside. of that space, okay, now when I check this and line it up, my space is bigger here.

I'm going to close this space by turning the door. I'll send the bottom side here on the hinge. I'll send it up. and the more I close it, I see that the more I send it down, the higher it goes, it's like turning that screw, so yeah, and the same way because of the weight of the doors on the pins, this side is going to be. pushing this way, so I'm going to put the screw inside the slot once I get the space right to make my life easier. I put that screw right in the middle and then I can come up here and confirm my spacing.

I like it. I'm going to put another screw inside to make sure it can never slide. Now I'm ready, it's just a matter of finishing the last screws. I'm going to put my thumb on the jet, you see, I'm going to have the ability to open that up just a little bit, just a little bit, there we go, same thing down here, which opens up a nice little space, okay, okay and at the same time ras, okay, so it was pretty easy. it doesn't require a lot of force it doesn't require a lot of carpentry knowledge it just took a little understanding we have to be on a finished surface a lot of screws relatively easy installation you know not a bad product for DIY or Don't listen, that took longer than the first door, that one also costs about ten or twelve dollars for the hardware, keep that in mind.

Okay, I think it might be worth learning how to use construction screws in your shin. Okay, this is method number. three, this is what I call the cheapest because no matter what you do when you install the door when you are done, you will have to use brad nails to drive them in while you are siding, what if you could install the door completely with just brad nails? and you can, but there are a couple of things you need to know first: Make sure you have enough room for the full molding around the door. This technique only works if you have enough height to place the case before the ceiling and the room. on each side for the casing too because you can't customize the casing and then install the door, that's just ridiculous, it's totally backwards, but if you have a lot of space like we do here because we bought 78 inch tall doors, just a suggestion , but if you are working in a basement and you are working under structural beams and ductwork, in many cases if you purchase the 78 inch door instead of 80, it will give you room to give you the appearance of a full size door and you won't have to cut all the trim, it will save you a ton of work, it will give you a cleaner look and it will allow you to install the door this way, so what we will do is we will set up we lift up our compressor and our chop saw, we already checked our door, we have plenty of room , everything will be fine, we will first add the trim to the face of the door jamb and then lift it up and glue it. instead you throw 20 nails in that suction cup and we're done for the day we cut out our casing and now we're going to throw some more in of course we're using 2 inch nails just throw a couple in the bottom here set it up with some space so you can and paint afterwards, make everything pretty good, did you do it secretly?

Can you get to the other end of the door without stepping on it? Now that we have the case attached, the jams will still move, so don't nail your corner, give it some flexibility, of course, I removed that little locking pin from the door handle area, we'll just drag this into position, yeah this looks a little awkward, okay now the door will want to drop down but the casing will stop it from doing that. Now what we want to do is just place our level on the right side of the hinges and make sure that the door can open and close with enough space, like the space at the top.

I like all this. So what we're doing here is starting to push up from the bottom against the door frame. Okay, here we go, now you can see. I have some room to manipulate here. What I want to do is put my level here check that it's plumb I'm not plumb go all the way that's too extreme so what I know is the bottom is going to be in that position so let's jam in one pair in the casing, one pair in the. jam now the bottom is fixed now I can sit here set up my gun and just relax until it's in the perfect spot and I'm putting the whole line of nails right where the door stop is because I can come through later and with a nail gun caulking. and I can make a bead of putty and fill in all those little dents right where my group will be fine, so now no one can come to this side to check the functionality, so now again I'm in the same place.

I have a lot of flexibility. here, okay, up, down, moving, I'm just checking my space at the top, I'm fine with that, I close the door, I don't see any light, so I make it nice and square and then I can manipulate everything here until everything is okay. It closes well and doesn't rub against me. I'm going to close a little here, that's a good space all the way around. Now I have a space from here to my frame and how I'm running the nails here. I'm going to use my left hand, which is so scary, and hold the jam material in place on the left side, knowing that this is all nailed on the right side to keep everything from twisting, it's pretty solid and the doors don't They go nowhere, I love it.

We'll probably need some putty just to clean up some of these cuts, but let's be honest. I know there are many carpenters who if they can get a joint like that with cheap MDF materials they will be happy. knowing they're going to snag it, so like a stripped wire, we've got a little bit of chafing, let's fix that. Wow, perfect, this is a great way to maintain a door system. Anything that moves or pulls on you over time, you know, just give it a little kick, throw in a couple more nails and that's it, now that covers all three systems, the cheapest one turned out to be the most tedious, but if you feel comfortable using a miter saw, measuring and joining them. like this one and its correctly sized holes, this is pretty quick too.

What I would suggest is that if you are a chuck type family this is not a good system for you unless you have a casing on both sides but as it just goes to an empty spot. room where we have the boiler really all we need here is something we can paint and close off our space so visually we can't see the boiler room so that works really well. My favorite of course is always the shims and screws, let's just review. I'm not a fan of the clips, I thought they were just a bunch of screws and at the end of the day it took more effort to install all those plates and fix everything than just doing it the original way with the boats, so three. ways you can choose I think that bolt-on plate system would work if you're not really comfortable with tools, all you need new is to know how to use a drill and the rest you can feel out, so it's probably not like that. a bad DIY project if you're not very comfortable with it, but let's say there are still outdated rules, this will work, not a big fan.

I don't do this, I make one type of door very often, but only for the purpose. From the video I thought I'd present you with three different options so you can choose the strongest, the easiest and the cheapest, the cheapest actually ended up being the fastest, but speed isn't really the point here, it's about getting a good result, remember. Our goal here is to help you as a homeowner achieve a professional looking result. This is an installation that is being done on new construction all over our country, so please don't send us a comment saying that using the nailer is unprofessional because I know too much. of people who get paid to install that type of door, that's all for this video, so I hope we have all your questions answered, you will feel more comfortable installing doors, you have some options and systems in your toolbox now If you have any questions or comments put them in the section below.

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