Replace Door Hinges One At A Time

With the door hinges done and the door hung it was time to tackle the door knobs.

Replace door hinges one at a time. Visit our website for more. Take a sharp pencil and draw an outline of the hinge on the door frame. When each hinge is in place with two screws in each leaf tighten all the screws and try the door. 1 first you ll need to remove the screws on both leaves of the existing hinge.

3 screw the new hinge in place. This video will show you how to replace and upgrade your door s hinges the easy way. Once you have shimmed the door you can replace the hinges. Install each leaf with two screws only not quite fully tightened.

Then shut the door and take the rest of the bolts out. You don t need to take the whole door down just remove one hinge and replace it with a new one then do the next one and finally swap out the final one. Hold the hinge snuggly against the mortise at the top of the old hinges. Support the door first.

Once you have the hinge rebuilt put it back in and tighten it up. The old knob didn t even have a latch but the hole was there. I just had to chisel it out so the faceplate was flush. Then move on to the next hinge then the next until they are all replaced.

Once we were sure the latch. Then remove the hinge pins one at a time and drop in new bushings. You will repeat this process for all the hinges always keeping the hinge aligned with the top of the old location. This took me about 10 minutes.

The easiest way is to replace one hinge at a time. There s no need to remove the door if you replace hinges one at a time. Remove the old hinges and use a new hinge as a template. Only do one hinge at a time.

On the top hinge there is one bolt that goes to the door that needs to be taken out with the door open. Not only do i have a door that actually stays open now i also have chrome hardware instead of the gold. Start with the top.