How To Install House Door Hinges
After your three door frame pieces are cut to the correct size prime and paint them.
How to install house door hinges. The door im doing is an interio. Or simpler how to hang a door. To install door hinges on a new door measure and mark where your hinges need to go on the door frame and on the door you re hanging. With a sharp chisel and hammer cut the wood in the shape of the hinge.
It s much easier to do now before the hinges are screwed in and the whole thing is attached to the door. Use a utility knife to score the outline. Set the door on its side with the inside edge of the door where the hinges will go facing up against a stable surface such as a work bench. Begin with the mortises on the door then the mortises on.
In this video i m showing how to fit a door hinges on to the door and on the door frame. Using a mortising template route matching mortises for the hinges on the door and jamb.