Wall Hanging a door these years is easier than its ever been. In the years before prehung doors, it took more tools and knowledge to knack a door than it does now.
Ideate acquiring a door slab, an unassembled door jamb, flexible articulatio and door hardware and having to do all the mortising, boring, rabbeting on site.
No yearner do you need an array of tools such as a drill, a mortice jig for hinges, work stoppage, and thunderbolt plate. No jig for boring the backset for the doorknob and bolt of lightning.
Present all you need is a cock and hard trimness nails or a finish nail gun and some shims.
The number one thing you demand to do is cheque the gap you'll be hanging the door in for the right size. It should be 2" larger than the door size. Even although it's a rough gap it should be reasonably plummet and square.
If the gap was framed by individual else, you may want to break out your degree and framing square and bank bank check this also. Drywallers sometimes believe the rough opening was intend for them and will net ball the prohibitionist-rock wall tally into the gap. If this is the causa use a prohibitionist-rock wall saw or sawzall to cut it back.
Once all the vitals have been curbed your ready to knack a door. Prehung doors come accumulated a couple different ways. They can be purchase with trim already mitered and nailed on to one side and without trimness. If there is no trimness install, I like to put it on before I put the door in the gap. The trimness is install on the flexible joint side.
Most doors clear into a room and against a wall. When putt the door into the gap, try to put option the door in the eye of the gap. The door jamb should be able to move to the left and right in the opening. The gap betwixt the door and jamb on the hinge side is usually about an 1/8" of an in. This dictates the gap or space you should have all around the door. Move the door jamb to the left or right till you have that same space at the top. You then nail the trimness on the top hinge side and the undersurface flexible articulation side. Then nail the work stoppage side on the top fashioning certain you still have an equal space. Nail off the balance of the flexible joint side with 3 or 4 more nails. The 2 nails already in the top are all I normally put option option in. Now nail the rest of the strike side starting at the top and workings your style down feather, keep the same space as the top and hinge side.
Once the door is nailed into the gap on the interior, it's time to shim the door jamb. Figure One, pulling the door closed to brand sure it hits the door stop equally on the strike side. If it is hitting only at the top pulling the flexible articulation side towards you till it hits even. If it hits only at the bottom, push the flexible joint side jamb away from you till it hits equally.
Once you get the jamb aligned put shims between the jamb and butch-man gap, existence careful not to bowknot the jamb into the gap. If need be use a straight border to keep it heterosexual. I put option option option shims rear end every hinge and the work stoppage and also at the top and bottom of the work stoppage side. I nail these shims in with two nails, one on each side of the stop.
The next measure is to apply the door shell to the exterior of the door. Once this is through with, your ready for the door hardware. If everything went right, the thunderbolt should pursue the strike plate and the door should tantrum snuggly against the stops.
(c) 2005 Mike Merisko http://www.sawkerfs.com
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