How To Cover Door Hinge Cutouts

I wanted to make it look like one smooth doorway without any indication that there was ever a hinged door here.

How to cover door hinge cutouts.

These notches or. Cover the gaps left in the frame or door. If you ve recently removed a door from its frame to replace it with another door that will use hinges in different locations or that will hang on the other side of the frame or if you don t plan to fill the space with another door you ll need to fill in the cutouts you made in the door frame when you. When we took the original door off it s hinges it left the cut out indentations from each of the 3 hinges as well as where the ball catch was.

Hold until the glue starts to dry. When you install a door hinge you need to make notches for it on the edge of the door and on the jamb or the door won t close properly. Take a plain piece of wood the width of your door and cut it down until it fits into the shape left by your former door hinge. This may include covering over any wood stains left by the hinge.

Step 3 finishing up. To make the installation process as simple as possible use square edged hinges that are either 25 in 0 64 cm or 75 in 1 9 cm thick. Once the wood is the right size glue the inward facing side and then press it into place. So the doorway had 4 spots to patch.