How To Install An Interior Door That Is Not Pre Hung

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How to install an interior door that is not pre hung. Mark the pre hung door for the opening adding an inch or two for carpet to run underneath the door. Set this reveal by driving an 8d nail through the face of the latch side casing and into the trimmer near the top of the door. Use a hammer to tap two wedges under the door until the top of it is within an eighth of an inch of touching the ceiling.

Stand the door vertically into the opening as if it already were installed. Place the pin on the side where the door will open. This is a do.

Drop it to the high side of the floor tack it in place set your scribe and mark the contour of the floor onto the plywood. To adjust it grab the casing and move the jamb by hand. Remove the plywood cut the shape with a jigsaw and transfer the shape to the bottom of the jamb.

Plywood the same width as your door jamb. Position the first hinge 7 inches from the top of the door. Set the pivot point or pin inch from the edge of the door.

An expert carpenter shows how to hang a door that is not already in a frame. Long strip of 1 4 in. Depending on the size of the door you may have three hinges.

Put painter s tape along the length of their mark image 1 and on the plate of the saw image 2. Position the pre hung door. Use a four foot level to see how plumb the rough opening is that is common to the hinge side of the door.