How To Cut Slab Door For Hinges

Watch how quick and easy it is to precisely cut out a hinge morti.

How to cut slab door for hinges.

Before cutting your door hinge mortise place your hinge on top of the door and outline it with a pencil. How to cut the perfect hinge in minutes. Measure the depth of the hinge and place it aside. Slab doors allow you to match existing jambs by cutting the mortise slots into.

Purchase your new door as a slab meaning that it will not have any routes for the hinges or any holes drilled for knobs. Once you have marked out where the hinges will go place one of the hinges in its specified location. Leah demonstrates how to use a router and jig to cut perfect door hinge mortises quickly and easily. If you have more than an inch to remove take half off the top and half off the bottom.

Cut the hinge mortises on the slab door. Get the door hinge jig shown in this video through our l. We show you the tools to use and the. Remove the old door and cut the new door down to size.

Be sure that the door is approximately inch narrower than the jamb opening. Let the home depot show you what it takes to hang a new slab door or to replace a damaged one. To carve out the mortise place a chisel into the outline grooves and tap the. Install the hinges on the door first.

This is the perfect tutorial showing you how to cut in the perfect door hinge. Slab doors are basic all purpose doors you install yourself. Then use the utility knife to draw straight notch marks at the depth of the hinge across the. Chances are that they will be very close to the same size.

Using a utility knife score a line around the hinge. How to install an exterior door slab. If you have more than 3 16 of an inch to remove you can use a circular saw to do so. That way we can line everything up to make it work perfectly with our existing jamb.

The latch side should be beveled. How to cut out slots for door hinges in a slab door. Go slowly and make a long clean cut. In this video home renovation brothers dave and rich show you how to cut out a door hinge.

If you re not steady with your saw you can use a straight edge as a guide. Measure the width and height of the existing door and check the new slab.