How To Install A New Interior Door

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How to install a new interior door. Then attach 6 installation brackets along the outside of the door jamb placing a bracket behind each of the 3 hinges. If the knob is to the right select a right handed door. Repeat with the other two hinges.

If you re installing a door on an unfinished floor and need space under the jambs for carpet just rest the jambs on temporary blocks while you re hanging the door. Measure from the top of the header to the bottom of the top plate and cut the cripple studs to this length. Once the door is hung screw the hinge leaf to the door edge.

If the doorknob is on the left you need a left handed door. See below for a shopping. Make sure not to screw the knobs on too tightly.

Screw the remaining halves of the hinges to the door jamb. Pull hinge pins and take down old door. Add the lockset and strike plate.

Add the height of the new jamb plus inch and cut two new jack studs to this length. Installing the door frame that i made from the parts in the previous video. Lay old door on top of new door.

Keep tops and hinge edges flush. Attack the backplates and doorknobs. Adjust the size of the blocks so the bottoms of the jambs are on a level plane.