MUY buena calidad, el texto imagenes. ruclips.net/user/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO Un manuel muy completo y trabajado. Resulta muy práctico. Para principiantes y profesionales. Lo recomiendo
I came across this video yesterday after spending hours trying to get a bedroom door installed,,,,OMG,,,what a knowledgeable carpenter,,,,thanks,,it went extremely well following these instructions.
So awesome. Killing a job right now using it. I needed a process. I owe so much to RUclips tradesmen. Thank you guys... Tired of learning from my mistakes.
The 5th long screw through the hinge made all the difference for me! Almost as if it twisted the jam just enough to to pull away the top opposite corner from hitting.
just hung my first door after watching this video. A second pair of hands for a beginner would go a long way but I pulled it off. I was working with a cutout that wasn't 100% plum but I'd say I did a better job than the guy that installed the previous door. Easy subscription for me. Thanks!
If anyone wants a copy/paste note for this: shoot level control line across jamb, mark on jamb Measure down from control line to determine how out of level floor is At this point, find the measurement that will align the doors with windows/exterior doors! From this level line, measure to top of ID jamb so you know what height to set all doors at Find level on floor, shim the ground as needed so you don’t have to hold level above head and can set the door on the shim to have it level at header Check RO for plumb- shoot shims where needed but make sure door is centered in RO, especially in a hallway so there’s an equal distance from each side of casing to wall. Make sure new RO is about 1/8’ larger than OD of jamb Cut 3-1/2” x 3-1/2” plywood shims Mark hinge locations on level so I know where to not put shims-never behind hinges Leave stopper screw in door till set in the RO Shim the head jamb to stay put, flush with wall The System for bagging screws: Fastener #1 goes at very TOP of jamb on hinge side ** make sure flush wit wall first ** Fastener #2 goes opposite side at op of jamb --- two 15g nails (at top, both sides of stop) or a screw---- ** before setting #3 need to remove cross leg- close door in jamb and make sure its flush with jamb FROM BOTTOM TO TOP OF JAMB. If top strike side of door is proud, kick bottom hinge side out**** Fastener #3 in hinge side bottom below hinge at bottom of jamb Fastener #4 at bottom of strike side Fastener #5 corrects the hinge gap above top hinge- goes through top hinge hole closest to the stop Last thing to correct is hinge gap at bottom hinge which is almost always too tight -put shim just above bottom hinge to adjust Now shim hinge side of door, then strike side *around latch*
Thanks for an extremely interesting and functional video. I've been installing doors all wrong and expending needless energy. Always seems that jobs can be made easier if you're willing to watch and learn. Thanks for all mentoring, skills and experience.
Gary. One other thing I do before I start installing like you do with the level is to check the plumb of the wall on each side of the door opening to make sure they both bubble the same. They don't need to be perfectly plumb but you want them to be the same so the bottom plates are in alignment. I find this important when going out to look at job so I know what I'm up against before giving the home owner a price (CYA). You might mention when hanging interior doors to raise them up 3/8" where there is carpet.. Our carpet installers love it as they can tuck the carpeting under the jamb and casing. This also save us time cutting off the bottom of the doors later when they use thick padding/carpeting. Other areas with laminate flooring & padding come out very close on head height. Thicker wood floors we let the installer trim off the jamb a little with their jamb saw or oscillating multi tool. Never had a problem. If you haven't had a chance to try air wedges (winbag) you will find them to be very handy especially when working by yourself. Exterior doors I only install name brand doors from real lumberyards. They cost a little more but you get what you pay for. An example of our local big box store (starts with Me) changed their sills. What used to be a true adjustable sill now is a spring loaded. It puts a lot of force on the rubber seal on the door bottom and is hard to close and you would swear it is locked when trying to open it. My name brand doors work like a refrigerator door (2 fingers to close). Real sweet. Less time installing and no callbacks. Thicker steel, better primer coat, better jambs, and ball bearing hinges are standard. Add in the great service and knowledgeable staff it is no comparison. Enjoy.
Thank you for the outstanding instructions. I just removed my 30 year old front door then used your instructions on how to install the new one - new door went up in no time.
So after he sets 5 screws in both jambs he then sets his shims all around and tacks them in? Would that tighten the jamb in more. Seems like he had it adjusted after #5 screw . Let me know.
I dont really see why you would shim the strike side solid and plumb and make such a mess of the hinge side. That's why you're dealing with hinge sag issues. Seems like too many steps as well. I just open the door pop a nail above the top and bottom hinge and then the door is in the hole. Slide a shim in at the top and bottom hinge and hammer until the door is plumb. Do the same to the strike side of the jamb one at top and bottom. Check for sway (this is where you can more precisely adjust sway) you can calculated it so its least noticable. Say you have an inch of sway, you have four corners of the door you can split the difference in instead of how you adjusted it with just the two legs( I used a large amount of sway to show how much can be adjusted) with this way you would have to move each leg a half inch. Splitting the difference between four corners of the jamb you would only have to move each corner a quarter inch. Now your door closes tight against the jam now you can shim it off making sure you have a perfect margin all around the door. I would take this a step further and grab a level and hold it across the opening at the hinge locations pressed tight against the wall and put your speed square on the face of the level to make sure the jamb is also shimmed square in the rough opening as well. Once all the hinge locations are square I would do the strike side at the bottom and grab my 6 foot level and make sure the back side of the jamb is square and straight as well. If you put a straight edge on that door I can imagine it's all over the map
Wow! You can always spot a true Master. This is hands down the best video on how to systematically install a pre-hung door. Don't even waste your time looking at the others. I love his systematic method and how he explains the reasoning for each fastener and the importance of the order of installation. Just finished installing mine and it went in perfect. As a mechanical engineer, i can appreciate this guys logical approach. I'm definitely subscribed.
these are some high quality techniques. I'm a professional door guy, and I've been setting doors like this for ages. I gotta say it is great to see someone teaching the proper way to install a door. I know plenty of installers that don't even know of some of these details. The process isn't set in stone. Just need to know what is happening with the opening. If you get it down you can set a door in 5 minutes. if you neglect a detail it can easily quadruple the time or more.
Just used this method for the first time with some solid core doors and it made a huge difference. The tip about shimming above the bottom hinge to relieve the pressure below it is the step where I've gone wrong in the past. Biggest problem I had was the manufacturers inability to consistently mortise the hinges at the proper depth.
Most trouble I've had with doors lately has been the absolute lack of QC coming out of the door shop. If there's no gap while the door is still wrapped up and screwed shut, it's gonna be a bad day installing them. Shouldn't have to use a tube of caulk between the header and jamb legs.
By far the best instruction I've found on u-tube! I've verified it on my exterior door several times as I took it out and replaced, then had to return the new door and put the old back in, and then repeated the whole thing once more. Finally gave up on new badly pre-hung doors, refinished the old one and made a new jamb. Thanks to this good man, for the first time in my life I have a well-functioning exterior door.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for making this video. I was having trouble hanging my exterior side door. I remember watching this video a few years ago. I didn't follow your process. After 2 days of a poorly working door. I carefully watched this video, and followed your process exactly and got a perfect fitting door! Thanks so much. 😀😀😀😀
Hung hollow core doors about 9 of them and went fairly smoothly but tried to hang a solid core door and took me forever! Great info on shim above the bottom hinge to open up the gap and the #5 screw in the hinge to fix the gap there especially on heavy doors! I had no idea on how to fix that and it drove me crazy. I just got lucky and figure it out somehow and not sure what the heck I did! But this video explains it all on how to do it systematically and to save a lot of time! Thank you so much!
I recently returned a door to home depot because I thought it was defective. After watching this video I purchased the same door and hung it properly, thanks to you.
This is hands down the best door hanging video on RUclips. It even reminded to keep in mind to keep Centred so the finish trim is equal spacing between adjacent walls. But it didn’t refer to problems trimming it resulting from the jamb being out of flush with the drywall.
I spent ten years fighting door installs I had learn how to do from seasoned “carpenters “ . Then I transitioned to your method after figuring out where the important points and order are. Been doing the way you showed for fifteen years now happily.
@@landonlandon5533 exactly..I love to read the lies of these so called experienced carpenters, after 40 yrs as a finish carpenter n woodworker its easy to see the usually one glaring thing that gives the bs away😄😄
great video, very informative. trick for the bottom hinge side gap was a big help. dont find many videos like this. simple and easy to understand. thanks
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have searched high and low for info on exactly how to install a door and nothing had exactly what a novice needed to know...until this video. I appreciate it!
Thank you Gary Katz! I installed my first pre-hung interior door this weekend. To be completely honest, I installed it twice: incorrectly Saturday and had to take it all down (sticking), then watched your vid Sunday morning and followed your instructions, *it worked great*! Made me very happy. Now I go downstairs just to stand there opening and closing my wife's new sewing-room door. :)
This is a craftsperson. He would likely be unable to work with most home construction crews these days because homes these days are built like garbage. I doubt the author would be able to live with himself if he had to "finish carpentry" the way that "finish carpentry" is done.Most prehung doors are simply placed into the RO and nailed and the same goes for windows.
Mr Katz, you probably get tired of hearing this, but you are amazing at your craft. Have watched this video over a dozen times, and made detailed notes that I take to the job site each day. Your teaching has greatly enriched my job. 55 year old trim apprentice here. Been hanging doors for about a year. Everything works well as long as the doors are of good quality (manufactured correctly), the rough openings are fairly plumb, etc… The. I got a batch of poorly made doors…. Jamb and door were exactly the same size, most hinges screws stripped, top reveal was 3/8 inches, and most doors jamb bound. What a mess for an apprentice like me. Thanks to your RUclips videos (Setting Prehung, Doors and Bending Hinges), allowed me to make it through the install. Have purchased your books on doors as well. Called the door company reported the errors in the doors. They reported back a three week turnaround on new doors. We wound up having the company send us the individual head and legs, we cut them to the correct size, assembled the jambs, and hung the doors. These were solid core split jamb doors. With the doors being so very heavy, your videos were a true lifesaver. We had to really tweak the jambs following your technique to achieve a truly excellent job. Thank you very much Mr Katz again for you excellence and for honoring your craft to help folks like me.
I've hung about 50 doors. Thanks to you, i'll be saving a ton of time and frustration for the next few hundred :) . Thank you for this video! Great work!
After watching a few other similar videos and finding out what I needed to know, I got thirsty and decided to go grab a cold beer and just left youtube playing in the background. My previously watched video was nearing its end and when it did, autoplay chose this video to be next. Just 1 more way that beer has positively influenced and changed my life forever because while drinking it, something this dude said caught my attention and started to interest me. I ended up watching the entire video and I'm so grateful I did. This dude is the Einstein of installing doors. A few weeks ago, I discovered there was a mouse in my house. I put out several traps and even some sticky pads but never caught it. He ate the peanut butter off the trap without setting it off and I even witnessed him running around the sticky pad. So a few days ago I saw him running along the wall and I said its now or never. I grabbed my 12 gauge shotgun and blew his little ass away, so I thought. That little rascal kept on running and I had accidently shot a hole through my door. I planned on replacing just the door itself and decided to watch a few youtube videos about it before I did. That's when I accidently came across this video and for some reason, I felt compelled to install a pre hung door. This dude made the installation process so much easier than the way I originally would had done it and he pointed out some very valuable steps to take and mistakes to avoid. While ripping out the old frame, I noticed a small hole at the bottom beside the carpet. It just so happened to be the front door of the mouse. So to make a long story short, without beer, I wouldn't have accidently watched this video and without watching this video, I wouldn't have ripped out the old door frame and without ripping out the old frame, I wouldn't have found the mouse door and if I hadn't of found that mouse door, my house would probably be full of bullet holes and if at this time the electrical wires haven't shorted out or the house collapsed on me, I would more than likely die from frostbite when winter gets here this winter. New pre hung door at Lowes: $79 Watching this video on RUclips: $1 Getting the desire to chug a cold beer that subsequently led to various other things & ultimately saving my life: Priceless
Hahaha "Just 1 more way that beer has positively influenced and changed my life forever because while drinking it" best comment ever! I wanted to keep thumbs up clicking over and over. Good comment for a good video!
What a fantastic video. I’ve been warned many times that fitting a door is very difficult. I just finished hanging my first ever door and it was a breeze thanks to this video. Great work, many thanks!
I had a problem with doors springing back open no matter where I screwed or nailed, whether it was plumb or not as well as with the door jamb resting on the floor or suspended in the air. The upper jam was level and it even sprung back at the last 2 inches. After making a tighter opening, shimming at the very top and installing with the door still in the frame it still bounced. Once I installed the screws in the order that Katz explains it changed everything. I did have to shim the door at various screw points but leveling the bottom hinge is what did the trick. I've never had such a smooth door. I remember thinking to myself when installing the door that if this method work i'd put this feedback out there. If you found this comment, odds are you are struggling with the same problem and there is no guides out there like this one. Amazing video and craftsman.
I've been doing a similar block method for years, and to add to this, when the framed opening is twisted (trimmers are not parallel and twisted over time in a remodel) cut the block to 1 1/2"-2" wide to minimize surface area of block pushing door jamb out of plumb and helping minimize amount of shimming to compensate for the twist of the trimmer. Always good to check out what others are doing to try and learn a better way.
I wish I saw this years ago! Makes perfect sense once you see it. I’ve always struggled with stacks of shims for bad openings. I had an opening an inch out of plumb today so was looking for a better way. This was def it! Easy least. Thank you!
Thanks. Good video. I have used the same procedure you have for many years. Sad thing is that consumers (and far too many carpenters) don't often understand the value of hanging one correctly. .
5:45 Level the floor first with shim 6:30 Determine width, use plywood spacers on trimmer studs to have plumb and centered rough opening 9:00 Why not to shim directly behind hinges 9:50 Fit door into rough opening 10:30 Flush jamb against sheetrock with shims at header 11:20 Fasten jamb to trimmer studs 14:00 Check for any cross-leg remaining and adjust 15:00 Screw in top hinge into trimmer stud to adjust top hinge gap 16:30 Adjust bottom hinge gap 17:00 Completer shims around door jambs
Yea and when you need a door set you go to the cheapest person you can find. Trust me he will not be able to spend this kind of time and be compensated fairly. Then hear the shit about not beening profesional. Thats after he gets his check for about half the amount a guy like this would charge.
I used this tutorial to replace 7 pre-hung, solid core doors in my house. They all went in perfectly in under 30 minutes per door. I am by no means a carpenter and had attempted hanging a door after watching other videos and messed around for hours with little success. THANK YOU! I recommend this video series to all my DIY friends .
This video is great -- this guy clearly knows his stuff. The linked article is for a PAIR of doors, though it does have a link to an article about a single door install: bit.ly/2DcZIz5. Being a (severe) carpentry newbie, I needed both to understand what to do. And even then... wish me luck! Oh, BTW, if you're inexperienced enough to not really understand "cross-leg" then look at this older article which has a good diagram of it: www.garymkatz.com/Publications/Articles/LBM/Hanging-Doors.pdf
GoodMorning, I'm Mark Smith massaging from the Bahamas....I enjoy your carpentry shows, it' teaches me a lot of saving time in my profession..keek up the good works an I'll keep watching
Wow, you have no idea how much I appreciate this! I was putting in a new bathroom door in a framed opening that is staggered about 1 1/2" from one side to the other. It kept binding and sitting proud no matter what I did. Then I watched your video. The system you use *works*! It is so logical, simple and deals with every kind of issue one might encounter. It solved all my problems. Thanks so much!
This sounds genius but I really this made 0 sense to me about the control line - if your floors are sloped that wont work right... each control line will be different heights relative to your ladder? Also... like say your header on a window is an inch higher than the door next to it.... you can't just hang trim an inch lower, that will look weird too... I realize he knows his stuff and I am just confused :)
I still don’t know what I’m doing but one piece of your advice made all of the difference. The wood that my door jamb was to go on was not straight. I planed it down, put my jamb in, then the door, and voila. My next door should go smoother.
Thank you Thank you Thank you for your video with this method. First time installing pre hung door or any door for that matter. Is older house so set my line and went off it. The method of installing the fasteners is perfect. We have a perfectly working door that opens and closes with no problems and does not swing on its own. Thank you very much
Just wanted to say thank you!! I decided to trim my own basement since I have done lots of little projects in the past and knew I could do it but I have never hung a prehung door. Your video was great and since I had two double closet doors next to each other I was really glad that you included the first part of your video. The two sets were almost 3/4 of an inch different in height - concrete floor. All four sets of doors in the basement are spot on. Thank you.
Maybe Mr. Katz or someone else can help me with a problem not covered in the video - on an exterior door with a rubber door seal inserted into a kerf in the inside of the jamb, sometimes the door never touches the rubber seal. I think this is because the hinges were installed 1/8th of an inch too far out. I normally move hinges inward to help with this seal. Is there a way to bend hinges to correct this?
No, he is not chuck Norris of door fittings. He has some major flaws in setting door jams. You do not move jam to one side of framed wall to align door against door stop to where jam is past the wall . If you do that your casing is not going to meet the jam, causing a gap one one side and to much jam sticking out past the wall. If your door and door stop are not coming together from top to bottom equally you can remove the door stop and reattach holding flush against the door. That way if door stop is a little out of plumb your not going to notice it. But door will be flush against door stop, without the jam causing issues.
I have an existing hollow core interior door that the top corner is snug enough that it won't close. The top corner is touching both the latch jamb and the head jamb. How can I fix this?
Man I've installed a hundred doors and always wondered why I struggled to get the reveal on the hinge side perfect. Who would have thought no shims behind the hinges?
at 17:45, when you talk about adding shims all the way around the frame, how do you secure them? Shim it in until its flush, mark the shim and cut it, then just stick it in so its not hanging out? And when the doors getting some abuse or vibration, the shims will stay in place and not fall down from there position? Seems like you'd want some glue or a screw or something to keep that shim from shifting, unless the pressure from the frame alone will keep it snug. Great video by the way.
Do you put more fasteners in when you’re done and shim up the gaps? Or are you only using a maximum of 5 fasteners and then the shims just float without any nails holding them in?
What do you do when the studs are not parallel to each other, or not perpendicular to the wall? If the studs aren't perfect this entire method wouldn't work.
I watched this 3 times yesterday and took copious notes. Installed my new exterior door in about an hour and it opens and closes perfectly !! Thank you so much for making such an outstanding video tutorial. Also, this afternoon I used your "pinch the hinges" technique for the first time on one of my neighbors doors. It worked like a champ !!
Im a pro finish carpenter. Ive hung interior pre hug doors ranging from $120 to $1200 each an thats not how its done. Ya have to find the low point like you said then you must plumb the hinge side first an fix it starting from the top to the bottom. Get it perfectly straight an plumb an make sure you shim it right. At least 5 points 1. Top, 2 bottom. 3 top hinge 4middle hinge 5 bottom hinge. Then do the same on lock side. This ensures proper margins an straight jambs so trim can go on correctly
Your way makes a lot more sense than this video. Follow this video on two rough opening walls that aren't on the same plane (cross leg jack studs) and you'll have casing not on the same plane as the drywall. Maybe for very minor adjustments in crossleg (16th or less) his method is OK.
best video of all time to set doors... thank you.. im working on a 68 year old house and i got about 75% of those steps right when i did the exterior doors.. 7 years ago... redoing it now after leveling it.. thank you so much
MUY buena calidad, el texto imagenes. ruclips.net/user/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO Un manuel muy completo y trabajado. Resulta muy práctico. Para principiantes y profesionales. Lo recomiendo
I came across this video yesterday after spending hours trying to get a bedroom door installed,,,,OMG,,,what a knowledgeable carpenter,,,,thanks,,it went extremely well following these instructions.
So awesome. Killing a job right now using it. I needed a process. I owe so much to RUclips tradesmen. Thank you guys... Tired of learning from my mistakes.
is this Mathew McConaughey's new role?? one of the best and most detailed skilled how to videos ever by the waY!
The 5th long screw through the hinge made all the difference for me! Almost as if it twisted the jam just enough to to pull away the top opposite corner from hitting.
just hung my first door after watching this video. A second pair of hands for a beginner would go a long way but I pulled it off. I was working with a cutout that wasn't 100% plum but I'd say I did a better job than the guy that installed the previous door. Easy subscription for me. Thanks!
If anyone wants a copy/paste note for this:
shoot level control line across jamb, mark on jamb
Measure down from control line to determine how out of level floor is
At this point, find the measurement that will align the doors with windows/exterior doors! From this level line, measure to top of ID jamb so you know what height to set all doors at
Find level on floor, shim the ground as needed so you don’t have to hold level above head and can set the door on the shim to have it level at header
Check RO for plumb- shoot shims where needed but make sure door is centered in RO, especially in a hallway so there’s an equal distance from each side of casing to wall.
Make sure new RO is about 1/8’ larger than OD of jamb
Cut 3-1/2” x 3-1/2” plywood shims
Mark hinge locations on level so I know where to not put shims-never behind hinges
Leave stopper screw in door till set in the RO
Shim the head jamb to stay put, flush with wall
The System for bagging screws:
Fastener #1 goes at very TOP of jamb on hinge side ** make sure flush wit wall first **
Fastener #2 goes opposite side at op of jamb
--- two 15g nails (at top, both sides of stop) or a screw----
** before setting #3 need to remove cross leg- close door in jamb and make sure its flush with jamb FROM BOTTOM TO TOP OF JAMB. If top strike side of door is proud, kick bottom hinge side out****
Fastener #3 in hinge side bottom below hinge at bottom of jamb
Fastener #4 at bottom of strike side
Fastener #5 corrects the hinge gap above top hinge- goes through top hinge hole closest to the stop
Last thing to correct is hinge gap at bottom hinge which is almost always too tight
-put shim just above bottom hinge to adjust
Now shim hinge side of door, then strike side *around latch*
Too bad I can’t copy thos
Thanks for writing this up. I was going to do so for myself and then read your comment where you already did so.
Thanks for an extremely interesting and functional video. I've been installing doors all wrong and expending needless energy. Always seems that jobs can be made easier if you're willing to watch and learn. Thanks for all mentoring, skills and experience.
Gary. One other thing I do before I start installing like you do with the level is to check the plumb of the wall on each side of the door opening to make sure they both bubble the same. They don't need to be perfectly plumb but you want them to be the same so the bottom plates are in alignment. I find this important when going out to look at job so I know what I'm up against before giving the home owner a price (CYA). You might mention when hanging interior doors to raise them up 3/8" where there is carpet.. Our carpet installers love it as they can tuck the carpeting under the jamb and casing. This also save us time cutting off the bottom of the doors later when they use thick padding/carpeting. Other areas with laminate flooring & padding come out very close on head height. Thicker wood floors we let the installer trim off the jamb a little with their jamb saw or oscillating multi tool. Never had a problem. If you haven't had a chance to try air wedges (winbag) you will find them to be very handy especially when working by yourself. Exterior doors I only install name brand doors from real lumberyards. They cost a little more but you get what you pay for. An example of our local big box store (starts with Me) changed their sills. What used to be a true adjustable sill now is a spring loaded. It puts a lot of force on the rubber seal on the door bottom and is hard to close and you would swear it is locked when trying to open it. My name brand doors work like a refrigerator door (2 fingers to close). Real sweet. Less time installing and no callbacks. Thicker steel, better primer coat, better jambs, and ball bearing hinges are standard. Add in the great service and knowledgeable staff it is no comparison. Enjoy.
It's nice to see a thorough, professional method. If you have customers willing to pay for it, even better.
One of the best carpenter's and teachers of carpentry of all times. He's right up there with Norm Abram .
6:41 "Framers like to do that just in case the walls are out of plum (they're never really sure you know)" Nice one Gary.
Love these videos from real craftsmen!
Thank you for the outstanding instructions. I just removed my 30 year old front door then used your instructions on how to install the new one - new door went up in no time.
Watching this at 5am about to install prehung doors. Looks doable. Have to set them before the wood flooring installer(me) and tile guy gets here
You are awesome! Ill be using your techniques in a few days
please do one on setting the locks and dead bolts
So after he sets 5 screws in both jambs he then sets his shims all around and tacks them in? Would that tighten the jamb in more. Seems like he had it adjusted after #5 screw . Let me know.
Great video, thanks for all the details.
You’re a wizard Gary!
I started out with problem free, pre-hung doors…but I fixed them good. 😮
I dont really see why you would shim the strike side solid and plumb and make such a mess of the hinge side. That's why you're dealing with hinge sag issues. Seems like too many steps as well. I just open the door pop a nail above the top and bottom hinge and then the door is in the hole. Slide a shim in at the top and bottom hinge and hammer until the door is plumb. Do the same to the strike side of the jamb one at top and bottom. Check for sway (this is where you can more precisely adjust sway) you can calculated it so its least noticable. Say you have an inch of sway, you have four corners of the door you can split the difference in instead of how you adjusted it with just the two legs( I used a large amount of sway to show how much can be adjusted) with this way you would have to move each leg a half inch. Splitting the difference between four corners of the jamb you would only have to move each corner a quarter inch. Now your door closes tight against the jam now you can shim it off making sure you have a perfect margin all around the door. I would take this a step further and grab a level and hold it across the opening at the hinge locations pressed tight against the wall and put your speed square on the face of the level to make sure the jamb is also shimmed square in the rough opening as well. Once all the hinge locations are square I would do the strike side at the bottom and grab my 6 foot level and make sure the back side of the jamb is square and straight as well. If you put a straight edge on that door I can imagine it's all over the map
anyone got the name or model of that laser?
how to install doors the Marvel Way, featuring Stan Lee the man.
If Steve Buscemi was a finish carpenter.
Wow! You can always spot a true Master. This is hands down the best video on how to systematically install a pre-hung door. Don't even waste your time looking at the others. I love his systematic method and how he explains the reasoning for each fastener and the importance of the order of installation. Just finished installing mine and it went in perfect. As a mechanical engineer, i can appreciate this guys logical approach. I'm definitely subscribed.
these are some high quality techniques. I'm a professional door guy, and I've been setting doors like this for ages. I gotta say it is great to see someone teaching the proper way to install a door. I know plenty of installers that don't even know of some of these details. The process isn't set in stone. Just need to know what is happening with the opening. If you get it down you can set a door in 5 minutes. if you neglect a detail it can easily quadruple the time or more.
Just used this method for the first time with some solid core doors and it made a huge difference. The tip about shimming above the bottom hinge to relieve the pressure below it is the step where I've gone wrong in the past. Biggest problem I had was the manufacturers inability to consistently mortise the hinges at the proper depth.
Yes agree with that shim above the hinge tip, neeeded that.
Same hinge depth issue in Canada.
Thanks for posting, great video.
Most trouble I've had with doors lately has been the absolute lack of QC coming out of the door shop. If there's no gap while the door is still wrapped up and screwed shut, it's gonna be a bad day installing them. Shouldn't have to use a tube of caulk between the header and jamb legs.
By far the best instruction I've found on u-tube! I've verified it on my exterior door several times as I took it out and replaced, then had to return the new door and put the old back in, and then repeated the whole thing once more. Finally gave up on new badly pre-hung doors, refinished the old one and made a new jamb. Thanks to this good man, for the first time in my life I have a well-functioning exterior door.
That was one of the best how to videos I've seen. Very well explained and demonstrated. Great work.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for making this video. I was having trouble hanging my exterior side door. I remember watching this video a few years ago. I didn't follow your process. After 2 days of a poorly working door. I carefully watched this video, and followed your process exactly and got a perfect fitting door! Thanks so much. 😀😀😀😀
Hung hollow core doors about 9 of them and went fairly smoothly but tried to hang
a solid core door and took me forever! Great info on shim above the bottom hinge to open up the gap and the #5 screw in the hinge to fix the gap there especially on heavy doors! I had no idea on how to fix that and it drove me crazy. I just got lucky and figure it out somehow and not sure what the heck I did! But this video explains it all on how to do it systematically and to save a lot of time! Thank you so much!
I recently returned a door to home depot because I thought it was defective. After watching this video I purchased the same door and hung it properly, thanks to you.
This is hands down the best door hanging video on RUclips. It even reminded to keep in mind to keep Centred so the finish trim is equal spacing between adjacent walls. But it didn’t refer to problems trimming it resulting from the jamb being out of flush with the drywall.
I spent ten years fighting door installs I had learn how to do from seasoned “carpenters “ . Then I transitioned to your method after figuring out where the important points and order are. Been doing the way you showed for fifteen years now happily.
The video is 9 years old.
@@landonlandon5533 exactly..I love to read the lies of these so called experienced carpenters, after 40 yrs as a finish carpenter n woodworker its easy to see the usually one glaring thing that gives the bs away😄😄
great video, very informative. trick for the bottom hinge side gap was a big help. dont find many videos like this. simple and easy to understand. thanks
You sir, are the Chuck Norris of door fitting!
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I agree@!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have searched high and low for info on exactly how to install a door and nothing had exactly what a novice needed to know...until this video. I appreciate it!
Love this man. You could tell he’s a good guy. It comes across in his instruction.
Thank you Gary Katz! I installed my first pre-hung interior door this weekend. To be completely honest, I installed it twice: incorrectly Saturday and had to take it all down (sticking), then watched your vid Sunday morning and followed your instructions, *it worked great*! Made me very happy. Now I go downstairs just to stand there opening and closing my wife's new sewing-room door. :)
That's so great, and so true! It's called "pride", in a job well done! david
This is a craftsperson. He would likely be unable to work with most home construction crews these days because homes these days are built like garbage. I doubt the author would be able to live with himself if he had to "finish carpentry" the way that "finish carpentry" is done.Most prehung doors are simply placed into the RO and nailed and the same goes for windows.
Mr Katz, you probably get tired of hearing this, but you are amazing at your craft. Have watched this video over a dozen times, and made detailed notes that I take to the job site each day. Your teaching has greatly enriched my job. 55 year old trim apprentice here. Been hanging doors for about a year. Everything works well as long as the doors are of good quality (manufactured correctly), the rough openings are fairly plumb, etc… The. I got a batch of poorly made doors…. Jamb and door were exactly the same size, most hinges screws stripped, top reveal was 3/8 inches, and most doors jamb bound.
What a mess for an apprentice like me.
Thanks to your RUclips videos (Setting Prehung, Doors and Bending Hinges), allowed me to make it through the install. Have purchased your books on doors as well.
Called the door company reported the errors in the doors. They reported back a three week turnaround on new doors. We wound up having the company send us the individual head and legs, we cut them to the correct size, assembled the jambs, and hung the doors.
These were solid core split jamb doors. With the doors being so very heavy, your videos were a true lifesaver. We had to really tweak the jambs following your technique to achieve a truly excellent job.
Thank you very much Mr Katz again for you excellence and for honoring your craft to help folks like me.
I wish all videos were as well delivered and informative as this one. Thank you.
“ when it’s really your fault” he says it with authority lol
I've hung about 50 doors. Thanks to you, i'll be saving a ton of time and frustration for the next few hundred :) . Thank you for this video! Great work!
Man brilliant idea on the plywood 3"x3" shims!
After watching a few other similar videos and finding out what I needed to know, I got thirsty and decided to go grab a cold beer and just left youtube playing in the background. My previously watched video was nearing its end and when it did, autoplay chose this video to be next. Just 1 more way that beer has positively influenced and changed my life forever because while drinking it, something this dude said caught my attention and started to interest me. I ended up watching the entire video and I'm so grateful I did. This dude is the Einstein of installing doors. A few weeks ago, I discovered there was a mouse in my house. I put out several traps and even some sticky pads but never caught it. He ate the peanut butter off the trap without setting it off and I even witnessed him running around the sticky pad. So a few days ago I saw him running along the wall and I said its now or never. I grabbed my 12 gauge shotgun and blew his little ass away, so I thought. That little rascal kept on running and I had accidently shot a hole through my door. I planned on replacing just the door itself and decided to watch a few youtube videos about it before I did. That's when I accidently came across this video and for some reason, I felt compelled to install a pre hung door. This dude made the installation process so much easier than the way I originally would had done it and he pointed out some very valuable steps to take and mistakes to avoid. While ripping out the old frame, I noticed a small hole at the bottom beside the carpet. It just so happened to be the front door of the mouse. So to make a long story short, without beer, I wouldn't have accidently watched this video and without watching this video, I wouldn't have ripped out the old door frame and without ripping out the old frame, I wouldn't have found the mouse door and if I hadn't of found that mouse door, my house would probably be full of bullet holes and if at this time the electrical wires haven't shorted out or the house collapsed on me, I would more than likely die from frostbite when winter gets here this winter.
New pre hung door at Lowes: $79
Watching this video on RUclips: $1
Getting the desire to chug a cold beer that subsequently led to various other things & ultimately saving my life: Priceless
stay thirsty my friend
Hahaha "Just 1 more way that beer has positively influenced and changed my life forever because while drinking it" best comment ever! I wanted to keep thumbs up clicking over and over. Good comment for a good video!
Best story I have heard on youtube. ever.
WHAT THE F wish I could copy and paste this, this is great.
Haha!! so true! Oh and NEVER forget the importance of fastener #5...
I wish my brother had been able to teach me half as good as this when I started working for him. Mr. Katz, you are a great teacher.
What a fantastic video. I’ve been warned many times that fitting a door is very difficult. I just finished hanging my first ever door and it was a breeze thanks to this video. Great work, many thanks!
What brand of milk crate do you recommend??
I’m going to break my door on purpose just so I️ can try this!
Watched videos from homerenovision. I didn't see this guy level the hinge side at all to see how much he's out. What am I not getting.
I had a problem with doors springing back open no matter where I screwed or nailed, whether it was plumb or not as well as with the door jamb resting on the floor or suspended in the air. The upper jam was level and it even sprung back at the last 2 inches. After making a tighter opening, shimming at the very top and installing with the door still in the frame it still bounced. Once I installed the screws in the order that Katz explains it changed everything. I did have to shim the door at various screw points but leveling the bottom hinge is what did the trick. I've never had such a smooth door. I remember thinking to myself when installing the door that if this method work i'd put this feedback out there. If you found this comment, odds are you are struggling with the same problem and there is no guides out there like this one. Amazing video and craftsman.
I've been doing a similar block method for years, and to add to this, when the framed opening is twisted (trimmers are not parallel and twisted over time in a remodel) cut the block to 1 1/2"-2" wide to minimize surface area of block pushing door jamb out of plumb and helping minimize amount of shimming to compensate for the twist of the trimmer. Always good to check out what others are doing to try and learn a better way.
I wish I saw this years ago! Makes perfect sense once you see it. I’ve always struggled with stacks of shims for bad openings. I had an opening an inch out of plumb today so was looking for a better way. This was def it! Easy least. Thank you!
Thanks. Good video. I have used the same procedure you have for many years. Sad thing is that consumers (and far too many carpenters) don't often understand the value of hanging one correctly. .
5:45 Level the floor first with shim
6:30 Determine width, use plywood spacers on trimmer studs to have plumb and centered rough opening
9:00 Why not to shim directly behind hinges
9:50 Fit door into rough opening
10:30 Flush jamb against sheetrock with shims at header
11:20 Fasten jamb to trimmer studs
14:00 Check for any cross-leg remaining and adjust
15:00 Screw in top hinge into trimmer stud to adjust top hinge gap
16:30 Adjust bottom hinge gap
17:00 Completer shims around door jambs
Your the man!..thanks for sharing the knowledge this is probably the most helpful to the point video on door installation on YT.
This is how a true craftsman who knows a little something about architecture and design, and cares about his work, does things.
Yea and when you need a door set you go to the cheapest person you can find. Trust me he will not be able to spend this kind of time and be compensated fairly. Then hear the shit about not beening profesional. Thats after he gets his check for about half the amount a guy like this would charge.
Had to learn 'the order' the hard way :(
Brilliant video.
I used this tutorial to replace 7 pre-hung, solid core doors in my house. They all went in perfectly in under 30 minutes per door. I am by no means a carpenter and had attempted hanging a door after watching other videos and messed around for hours with little success. THANK YOU! I recommend this video series to all my DIY friends .
This video is great -- this guy clearly knows his stuff. The linked article is for a PAIR of doors, though it does have a link to an article about a single door install: bit.ly/2DcZIz5. Being a (severe) carpentry newbie, I needed both to understand what to do. And even then... wish me luck!
Oh, BTW, if you're inexperienced enough to not really understand "cross-leg" then look at this older article which has a good diagram of it: www.garymkatz.com/Publications/Articles/LBM/Hanging-Doors.pdf
GoodMorning, I'm Mark Smith massaging from the Bahamas....I enjoy your carpentry shows, it' teaches me a lot of saving time in my profession..keek up the good works an I'll keep watching
Wow, you have no idea how much I appreciate this! I was putting in a new bathroom door in a framed opening that is staggered about 1 1/2" from one side to the other. It kept binding and sitting proud no matter what I did. Then I watched your video. The system you use *works*! It is so logical, simple and deals with every kind of issue one might encounter. It solved all my problems. Thanks so much!
This sounds genius but I really this made 0 sense to me about the control line - if your floors are sloped that wont work right... each control line will be different heights relative to your ladder? Also... like say your header on a window is an inch higher than the door next to it.... you can't just hang trim an inch lower, that will look weird too... I realize he knows his stuff and I am just confused :)
I still don’t know what I’m doing but one piece of your advice made all of the difference. The wood that my door jamb was to go on was not straight. I planed it down, put my jamb in, then the door, and voila. My next door should go smoother.
just found your channel and watched this vid... instant subscriber!!!
Thank you Thank you Thank you for your video with this method. First time installing pre hung door or any door for that matter. Is older house so set my line and went off it. The method of installing the fasteners is perfect. We have a perfectly working door that opens and closes with no problems and does not swing on its own.
Thank you very much
Just wanted to say thank you!! I decided to trim my own basement since I have done lots of little projects in the past and knew I could do it but I have never hung a prehung door. Your video was great and since I had two double closet doors next to each other I was really glad that you included the first part of your video. The two sets were almost 3/4 of an inch different in height - concrete floor. All four sets of doors in the basement are spot on. Thank you.
Maybe Mr. Katz or someone else can help me with a problem not covered in the video - on an exterior door with a rubber door seal inserted into a kerf in the inside of the jamb, sometimes the door never touches the rubber seal. I think this is because the hinges were installed 1/8th of an inch too far out. I normally move hinges inward to help with this seal. Is there a way to bend hinges to correct this?
No, he is not chuck Norris of door fittings. He has some major flaws in setting door jams. You do not move jam to one side of framed wall to align door against door stop to where jam is past the wall . If you do that your casing is not going to meet the jam, causing a gap one one side and to much jam sticking out past the wall. If your door and door stop are not coming together from top to bottom equally you can remove the door stop and reattach holding flush against the door. That way if door stop is a little out of plumb your not going to notice it. But door will be flush against door stop, without the jam causing issues.
Definitely worth subscribing to!!!! A carpenter's Masterpiece with every video!!! THANK YOU
Thank you. That is pro, that the way
I'm a door and windows installer.
I will pass it on to my crew.
No fla,fla I like that.
Thanks again
I don't even bother with shity crappy pre-hung doors. Make your own god damn door jams, is this a Carpentry chsnnel?
I have an existing hollow core interior door that the top corner is snug enough that it won't close. The top corner is touching both the latch jamb and the head jamb. How can I fix this?
I installed 5 doors with this video and had no problems installing them.
Do you have a video on how to install double Prehung Interior Doors ?
Thanks
Man I've installed a hundred doors and always wondered why I struggled to get the reveal on the hinge side perfect. Who would have thought no shims behind the hinges?
at 17:45, when you talk about adding shims all the way around the frame, how do you secure them? Shim it in until its flush, mark the shim and cut it, then just stick it in so its not hanging out? And when the doors getting some abuse or vibration, the shims will stay in place and not fall down from there position? Seems like you'd want some glue or a screw or something to keep that shim from shifting, unless the pressure from the frame alone will keep it snug. Great video by the way.
Usually put screws through the shims. After installation finished score the shims with a razor and break the part that hangs out off.
Do you put more fasteners in when you’re done and shim up the gaps? Or are you only using a maximum of 5 fasteners and then the shims just float without any nails holding them in?
Is this Jack Hartman - Kids Music Channel? He has the same look and mannerism. If not, what a resemblance!
This video was perfect for me. I'm hanging just one door and can take all the time I need. Thanks so much!
I fucking love this guy.
I'm confused. I usually plumb jamb side first so door does not open and close on its own. He sets head first and moves jamb and latch side
What do you do when the studs are not parallel to each other, or not perpendicular to the wall? If the studs aren't perfect this entire method wouldn't work.
I watched this 3 times yesterday and took copious notes. Installed my new exterior door in about an hour and it opens and closes perfectly !! Thank you so much for making such an outstanding video tutorial. Also, this afternoon I used your "pinch the hinges" technique for the first time on one of my neighbors doors. It worked like a champ !!
You are WELCOME! I’m glad you watched it carefully and that it worked! It has always worked for me, too! :)
I know this video is about prehung doors but man would it be nice to have plywood storage like that!
I think I missed where the hinge side was checked for plumb?
If only hm owners could hire someone like this, who actually had this kind knowledge....
great video! we spent an hour trying to figure out a door prior to watching this and within 20 minutes after viewing the door was hung!
Spot on with no shims behind hinges for serious. I am a door installer and I like it all.
not working on anything, just found this cool video randomly (:
Are you shimming from both sides so the jam doesn’t teeter? Thank you for the pointers!
This guy is very good and he needs our help! Subscribe and like. Thanks...
Does the apply to exterior doors? I’m installing prehung French door
Best advice ever. You rock. Thank you for teaching us.
Im a pro finish carpenter. Ive hung interior pre hug doors ranging from $120 to $1200 each an thats not how its done. Ya have to find the low point like you said then you must plumb the hinge side first an fix it starting from the top to the bottom. Get it perfectly straight an plumb an make sure you shim it right. At least 5 points 1. Top, 2 bottom. 3 top hinge 4middle hinge 5 bottom hinge. Then do the same on lock side. This ensures proper margins an straight jambs so trim can go on correctly
Your way makes a lot more sense than this video. Follow this video on two rough opening walls that aren't on the same plane (cross leg jack studs) and you'll have casing not on the same plane as the drywall. Maybe for very minor adjustments in crossleg (16th or less) his method is OK.
Thank that is a great information I am starting up new business about hanging door and windows.
best video of all time to set doors... thank you.. im working on a 68 year old house and i got about 75% of those steps right when i did the exterior doors.. 7 years ago... redoing it now after leveling it.. thank you so much
Also, do you use sealant between the concrete and threshold on a fire rated prehung door.
The problem was not installing the door the problem was this complicated method.