How To Cut Slab Door For Hinges

Cut the hinge mortises on the slab door.

How to cut slab door for hinges.

If you re not steady with your saw you can use a straight edge as a guide. Before cutting your door hinge mortise place your hinge on top of the door and outline it with a pencil. Install the hinges on the door first. Leah demonstrates how to use a router and jig to cut perfect door hinge mortises quickly and easily.

Slab doors are basic all purpose doors you install yourself. Once you have marked out where the hinges will go place one of the hinges in its specified location. Using a utility knife trace along the outline to create small groves then make a cut on the front or back side of the door indicating the mortise s depth. We show you the tools to use and the.

Be sure that the door is approximately inch narrower than the jamb opening. That way we can line everything up to make it work perfectly with our existing jamb. This is the perfect tutorial showing you how to cut in the perfect door hinge. Slab doors allow you to match existing jambs by cutting the mortise slots into.

Let the home depot show you what it takes to hang a new slab door or to replace a damaged one. Measure the width and height of the existing door and check the new slab. If you have more than an inch to remove take half off the top and half off the bottom. Measure the depth of the hinge and place it aside.

Remove the old door and cut the new door down to size. Purchase your new door as a slab meaning that it will not have any routes for the hinges or any holes drilled for knobs. Chances are that they will be very close to the same size. How to cut the perfect hinge in minutes.

To carve out the mortise place a chisel into the outline grooves and tap the. We ll also so you the tools required for this moderately diffi. The latch side should be beveled. If you need to trim it plane or saw the hinge side.

Go slowly and make a long clean cut. How to cut out slots for door hinges in a slab door. 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.

Then use the utility knife to draw straight notch marks at the depth of the hinge across the. Watch how quick and easy it is to precisely cut out a hinge morti.