How to Hang a Household Door

A step by step guide to hanging your typical household door,easy to understand guide you'll have your doors changed in no time..

Steps

1
Remove packaging and have a look on top edge of door for lock block. Remember to keep this side to lock or latch other side for hinges.
2
Try your door into the standard. Make sure you have a 3mm gap all the way round. If not, plane to fit; being careful not to take too much off.
3
Measure. When you're happy with the fit of the door, measure down 150mm from top of door. Do this on the hinge side and up 230mm from bottom. Place your hinge inside your mark and draw round.
4
Using a 20mm chisel, go round your mark with the bevel edge of chisel facing into check. Keep the bevel edge down in check work your way up length of your mark, then flat side down and from edge of door remove timber from check.
5
Try your hinge in check making sure it is sitting in flat, drill pilot holes and screw up, repeat operation with bottom hinge.
6
Measure down door frame the distance from top of door to bottom of top hinge, usually 225mm with a 75mm hinge, square across on standard and knock a 40mm brad in on your mark,measure in the width or your hinge and knock in another brad, this gives your hinge something to sit on, it also help if you knock one in width of bottom hinge to, put one screw in each hinge.
7
Take out brads and try door shut, it should shut fine apart from closing edge, you need to check out standard now, draw round hinges once again unscrew and repeat process checking out hinges.