This video teaches how to install door hinges on a new blank door, whether you’re a DIYer or a professional in the carpentry field. The process involves mortising, which allows the door to open and close properly. To install hinges, measure and mark hinge locations on both the door and frame for precise placement. Use a sharp chisel to cut mortises in the door and frame.
This guide will take you through each step of installing door hinges, from marking out to creating a recess in the door and fitting the hinge. It also includes trade tips to help get the best results.
To replace old hinges for interior doors or add new ones to a blank door that’s never been hung before, follow these steps: transfer hinge and lockset locations from the old door to the edge of the new door using a combination square. Cut hinge mortises using a hammer and chisel, screw hinges into mortises on the door edge, and pull pins to separate them.
To ensure proper installation, use blocks of wood to steady the door, compare the hinges, measure the door, and remove one of the old hinges. Place the hinges in the proper location, trace around the hinge, cut the mortise, mark the location of screws, drill pilot holes, and ensure they are in the right position, typically 5 inches from the top of the door and 10 hinges from the frame.
📹 How to Transfer Hinge Locations to a Replacement Door
When fitting a new door slab to an old jamb, laying out the hinge locations is critical to the door’s operation. Watch this video to …
📹 How to install a ROUND HINGE with BASIC HAND TOOLS!!!
Need to install a hinge but don’t have fancy tools? Don’t worry, you can still get it done and do a good job with basic hand tools.
I also do this work in a similar way. The one thing I do extra is score the back side of the area (face of door) to the depth of the hinge using the knife and a ruler. That gives me a line to work with to keep the depth of the whole area even and also prevents the wood from splitting (when doing a real wood door).
I like always liked using a Dremel with the small flat base gauge, just raise it the height of the hinge and free hand. The only downside is their battery tools suck and I’ve moved passed plug ins some years back. Now it’s a trim router and jig. Although a chisel will work in a pinch. A centering drill is a should use as it doesn’t allow the hinges to move if you drill out of center as you drive the screws in.
Good morning. Thank you for this article. I need to install some doors at my parents house and there are bifold doors up now-so how do i know how far the hinges go into the doors edge if i don’t have one to reference it to? Thank you for any help and suggestion.Also if i am buying new doors to hang and they are not drilled out or no hinges cut into i wont need to know what way the open until i go to put the hinges on then also correct?Have a good day
Ignore those snarky or troll commenters on your articles. We can’t all be perfect like them…🙄 As a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, I watch your articles and learn something new every time, even if it’s not a project I’m currently working on, knowing that I’ll have a reference should such a project ever come my way. perusal your articles I’ve done mudding and drywall repairs among other things on a couple of houses I never would have attempted prior to your articles. Keep up the great content, and I hope you and your family have a great holiday season!
You make that look do-able, even for me 👍 It makes me twitch when you refresh your blade by whacking the dull one on your project- that could fly into your eye, yikes! 😱 Mine has a little black end cap with a slot in it for snapping off the old blade. Take care Ben My son is a carpenter in Vancouver too – and his name is Ben as well.
No it’s not easy… I once owned a home where the previous owner had replaced every door in the house (amoung a host of other things) all by herself. She even bragged about it. Unfortunately she wasn’t a carpenter of any kind and it showed. I bought the house for significantly less money than she was asking and then spent the next six months redoing all her work. Fortunately I am a finish carpenter so my DIY project was also my profession. Sometimes it’s worth calling a pro.