How To Create Door Hinge Slots

Position your door so you can clearly see the back edge.

How to create door hinge slots.

Are you renovating a room and want to put on a new door. This is the perfect tutorial showing you how to cut in the perfect door hinge. In this video home renovation brothers dave and rich show you how to cut out a door hinge. I m renovating my bathro.

How to cut the perfect hinge in minutes. Then place 1 of your hinge s wings flush against the spot where you want it to sit. Watch how quick and easy it is to precisely cut out a hinge morti. Measure the hinge placements either on an existing door or the door you are replacing or take the hinge placement measurements off.

Set the depth of the cut to be the same as the depth of your hinge so that the hinge will rest flush on the door. This video will show you how to cut the perfect hinges on a brand new door. We show you the tools to use and the. Clamp the door to a sawhorse on both ends.

If you don t have frame markings typical hinge placement. Stand the door on its side with the doorknob side on the floor. If you have pencil markings from the frame place the hinge there. How to cut out slots for door hinges in a slab door.

Place the hinge on the door as if it were already installed on the door. Attach the jig to your door by screwing it in on both the top and bottom you can fill repaint these holes later. Attach the included router bit to your router.