Door installation
Hi, We bought old heavy doors and scrape them and scrape them. Now it’s ready to install 4 doors for our townhouse. All are for inside doors. My husband tried to install one door and we found out it’s very technical and not easy to install. When you install heavy doors, do you hire someone…
Hi,
We bought old heavy doors and scrape them and scrape them.
Now it’s ready to install 4 doors for our townhouse. All are for inside doors. My husband tried to install one door and we found out it’s very technical and not easy to install. When you install heavy doors, do you hire someone or do by yourself? if you hire, could you recommend someone, please. and how much should we expect the cost per one door? If you do by yourself, what is the advise and tips?
Thank you
You need to hire a handyman or carpenter experienced in installing salvage doors. It should take them one to three hours to install one. It is not at all the same thing as installing a new door (which come already hung in the frame). Steve at The Tinker’s Wagon or Gavin Young Maloney can handle this.
I concur with Errol.
Hanging heavy doors is part art part science.
The plumbness of the hinge side of the frame is all. The other jamb is less critical, but the hinge side is key.
Remember that the hinge side determines the height. It’s like a tango in which their can only be one lead.
When you put a 6′ level on the hinge side jamb, is it level both ways?
bruce@jerseydata.net
you need a really good carpenter experienced in retrofit construction to do this… the doors are probably out of square and twisted and ill need to be planed and shimmed endlessly to fit…this is craftsman stuff, not handyman work
Several years ago I saw a demo of how to hang a door on HGTV or something similar. It’s technically not complicated but looked like such an annoying pain, even for the experience person showing how it’s done that I made a mental note to outsource or avoid whenever possible. Basically it requires adjusting the door in tiny increments with a bunch of tiny wooden wedges called “shims” until it is hanging right. Takes a while and is very fiddly. I can imagine with a door that’s too heavy for one person to maneuver it would be just that much more of a pain. I’m sure you can find an online how-to video. Sorry I don’t have a recommendation for this, but any GC, carpenter or handyman/woman should be able to do it. Just make sure you check that it closes properly before you pay the person.