Replacing Bedroom Door Hinges

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Replacing bedroom door hinges.

Mortise the hinge locations. Remove the old hinges and use a new hinge as a template. This took me about 10 minutes. Trim the new door as needed with a circular saw to cut through the top or bottom and use a plane if some minor width.

Visit our website for more. Allow the putty time to dry and sand it smooth and flush with the surface. If the doorknob is on the left you need a left handed door. Remove the hinge pins and lift the old door out of the frame.

The strike side the side with the lockset of these doors has a beveled edge so the door can swing freely. If the knob is to the right select a right handed door. Open the door and stand with your back to the hinges. Prop the new door on its side and use a sharp utility knife to score the mortise for each hinge.

Test the hinge image zoom on the latch side a door is cut at a slight bevel to make it easier to close. You don t need to take the whole door down just remove one hinge and replace it with a new one then do the next one and finally swap out the final one. Not only do i have a door that actually stays open now i also have chrome hardware instead of the gold. Paint or stain the repair to match the rest of the door and trim.

If the replacement hinges are sized differently from the old ones fill in the mortise holes in both the door and the. Using our secret tricks definitely made the process easier. Some blank doors have a specific swing direction. Place the old door beside the new door and with the.

You will repeat this process for all the hinges always keeping the hinge aligned with the top of the old location. Use the same measurements for each hinge on the new door. Replacing old door knobs and hinges isn t difficult but it did take us a fair amount of time and we only did 3 doors. Line up each hinge inside the marks on the new door and trace the outline.

Tap wood image zoom if that does not solve the problem trim pieces of shim or other small wood pieces to fit. Hold the hinge snuggly against the mortise at the top of the old hinges. The easiest way is to replace one hinge at a time. Take a sharp pencil and draw an outline of the hinge on the door frame.

This video will show you how to replace and upgrade your door s hinges the easy way. One more project ticked off the guest bedroom redo list.