How to Hang Doors at Home Safely With Power Tools

Doors — By admin on April 12, 2010 at 3:58 pm

Hanging doors is no easy task. In fact, it is a task which requires some excellent carpentry work and skill. The first step to hanging a door is buying a door that is right in terms of material and style. If you are fitting one door inside your home, make sure it is the same or near enough the same as the other doors you have. Secondly, make sure you know whether you want to go for a chipboard door or a hardwood door.

Depending on whether you are going to be fitting a lock to the door or not this is very important. If you are fitting a lock and you buy a chipboard door, you must ensure you know which side of the door is the handle side door. The reason for this is that the lock side has a block of wood that you can drill into to fit the lock. If you drill into the wrong side of the door (which is chipboard) the lock will obviously not stay and you will waste the door.

Once you have bought the door, the first step to prepare it to hang will be measuring the door way. As time goes on, door ways and architraves can change shape, becoming almost unique in their specific shape. Once you have the measurements, you will need a plainer to carve the sides of the door down to size.

As you do this, you must regularly check the door against the door way as you could go too far and make the door too small for the frame. If you have a hardwood door, you can use jigsaw power tools to cut them down to size, however a plainer is a much better and smoother power tool to complete the job. Once you have got the door to size, your next job will be too fit the handle and hinges.

To fit the handle and lock, you will need to chisel and drill out the shape of the set that you have bought. Once you have done this you will then need to chisel out two or three areas on the back of the door where the hinges will be fitted. When doing this you must ensure the hinges are flush to the door and do not overlap or extend out. This is important to ensure the door hangs at the right height and distance from the frame.

Once you have done this and screwed in the hinges, your door is ready to be hanged.