Fitting Stable Door Hinges

Rising butts are fitted to doors which require raising when opened such as doors of rooms with carpets or rugs that prevent doors fully opening when the bottom edge of the door meets the edge of the floor covering.
Fitting stable door hinges. Otherwise you have to remove a hinge from the door. When a door starts to sag and hang crooked it always does so from the top so the upper part of the doorknob side is where it will start to catch. Then line up a combination square with the old door s hinge mortises and transfer their locations to the new door marking the edges with a utility knife. There are two leafs to hang so four hinges two weather moulds locks catches and bolts that all need to be fitted perfectly for the.
Mark out your hinges on the door. To transfer the hinge locations from the door slip or wedge the door into position with the hinge fully open and make fine knife lines along the top and bottom of the knuckle. In this video i m showing how to fit a door hinges on to the door and on the door frame. Fitting stable doors is twice as much work and more than an individual exterior door.
A spare hinge of the same size makes it easy to test fit the mortise and to mark the screw locations. The fitting of rising butt hinges is a simple job of carpentry. The door im doing is an interio.