How To Cut Out Spots For Hinges On A Door

Then grab a utility knife and extend the blade to no more than 25 in 0 64 cm.

How to cut out spots for hinges on a door.

This video from the honest carpenter will show you how to fi. Once you re happy with the outline remove your hinge from the door. Trace around the hinge with a pencil. If you don t have existing doors to use as a guide then measure from the top of the door frame and subtract 1 8 per the template instructions.

Drag the blade along each of the pencil lines creating small grooves you ll use later. Hinge slots or mortises are unsightly gaps left behind when doors are removed from doorways. Watch how quick and easy it is to precisely cut out a hinge morti. In this video home renovation brothers dave and rich show you how to cut out a door hinge.

Using a utility knife cut vertically down into the door following the tracing and cutting to a depth of 3 16 inch. Support the door between sawhorses with the hinge edge facing up and measure the positions of the hinges. I used our old doors to mark and measure the spots for the new hinges. Make marks for the top of the upper hinge the bottom of the lower one and one or the.