How To Hinge One Door To Another

You can move the door and move the hinges to the new location by chiseling the wood door.

How to hinge one door to another.

Connect the door to the jamb. To make your doorway accessible a 36 door is ideal. If you re hanging new doors onto old frames you will need to cut or mortise new hinges onto the door. Line up the two hinge plates so that the ones on the door match the ones in the jamb.

You just get a bag of shims place the door in its closed position and then use the shims to hold it in place. Hold the door in place using blocks under the bottom to support it if necessary. Likewise you should place wood in the old door frame to fill in the hinge slots. You will need to place a thin piece of similar wood in the side of the door for each unused hinge slot for a good appearance.

Slide the hinge pins into place and remove the blocks from the door. New doors also known as door blanks have smooth sides without any existing hinge locations. This will let you check the the new hinge plates will be in just the right spot. Now it was time to mortise out the hinges.