How To Install Double Swing Door Hinges

Space your hinges out appropriately on the door once you have how many you will be using.

How to install double swing door hinges.

If the door swings too easily insert a hex wrench into the holes on the bottom of both hinges. The center hinge should be installed as close as possible to the top hinge for maximum support. Mark on with your pencil where the hinges are going to go. Measure and mark the door where the hinge will cut into it.

How to install a swinging door. Align the long flat piece of the hinge not the foot with the bottom hinge side corner of the door. Remove the blocks and allow the door to swing in the opposite direction. Even if the hinges you are installing are non adjustable tension you should reverse the hinges on one door for proper operation.

Place the hinges into the mortises and lightly screw in the top hinge with one screw. Installing double acting spring hinges on double doors. For three put them on the top bottom and middle. We had to change out a 6 panel solid wood swinging butlers door with a 15 lite 15 panes of glass door.

Carefully cut out the bottom of the door to fit the floor hinge. Use the hex wrench to turn. Installing the double action hinge. A butler hinge is also called a swinging door hinge and a double acting floor hinge.

Put one screw into the bottom hinge next. There will still be gap using these hinges but these are the smallest gaps possible with double action hinges with full height doors. Once you know that the metal fastener can lay flat on the door frame measure 3 inches from the top of the door frame to mark where the top of the first double hinge will rest and 7 inches from the bottom of the frame to mark where the bottom of the second hinge will rest. For example if it s only two they should be placed near the top and the bottom.

Max door width is 36. Gaps will be on the sides between the door jamb and door. The final step in the double door hinge installation is to attach the hinges to the door. You will need a second person to complete this step of the process.

Install the double acting floor spring hinge. These hinges can be used for single swing doors as well as double swing doors. On this project i was tasked with installing a swinging butler door.