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an exterior door installation video and
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let's get started the very first thing
you need to do before installing your
door is check the opening bottom and if
the bottom is level you're good to go
but if it's not level you need to get
shims and shim it up appropriately
before installing your door and you're
going to use an adhesive when you
install your door which I'm going to
show you in a bit and then the next
thing you do is see how Plumb your
opening is because Now's the Time to
address those issues before you have a
door setting in the opening the next
thing you need to do before buying your
door is check your door opening width
and height in this case we got 38 inches
just a little over 38 inches and we got
looks like 82 inches so that's going to
be enough to accommodate a 36 inch door
in a standard height size as well but
something you need to note if you need
to install let's say a 32 inch door your
opening needs to be 34 inches wide
typically whatever the door slab is just
add an inch on each side and that's your
rough opening measurements the tools
needed to install your door are the
following a level a drill so you can
drill holes for a screw you need a
number two bit on a impact driver or a
drill a tube of Liquid Nails shims a
hammer and some galvanized finish nails
so before you set your door in the
opening I use Liquid Nails and put a
nice thick bead across the bottom here
and make sure your bottom is nice and
clean because if it's not the Liquid
Nails will not adhere appropriately so
again be pretty liberal with it and if
you don't have a concrete bottom like
you see here you need to take what's
called flashing tape and tape the bottom
and over the edge but I don't have to do
that here because I'm sitting on
concrete so major difference there so
again nice thick bead and this is the
time to put the shims in with the Liquid
Nails if you have to shim it level so
just a word of advice and again nice
liberal bead for shipping purposes every
door has a plug in the opening for the
doorknob so be sure to remove that
before setting the door in the opening
because once you set in the opening you
need to be able to open the door and
that way the gravity is going to hold
the door from the weight of the door
slab in the opening if you're working
alone if you have two people it's way
easier you just boost it in the opening
someone holds the door while the other
one works on the door but I work solo a
lot so that's how I do it so I have the
luxury of a finish nailer I'm going to
put this on my side instead of using the
galvanized nails and Hammer this is a
little quicker for me so I'm going to
put on my side and that way I can just
take it off my side when I'm ready to
tack a nail to set the door so now I'm
going to grab the door and set it in the
opening
and this is a solid fiberglass door so
it's actually relatively heavy so
set the bottom in first
and then lift the door into place
and always kick the bottom to make sure
we're all the way in so now what we need
to do is make sure the bottom of the
door is center of the opening and it
looks like on this side we got about a
quarter inch Gap and on this side let me
shut the door and look it looks like we
got about
yeah a little more in the quarter so I'm
just going to tap it over just a little
bit
that looks good and it slides pretty
easy because that Liquid Nails makes it
really greasy like now I'm going to tack
a nail on the outside to hold it Center
and the other side as well
so now what I'm going to do to secure
the door is put a level on the hinge
side make sure we're setting Plumb then
we'll attack a finish nail on this side
to hold it into place
foreign
so now we're sitting Plum and we're
going to check what the reveal looks
like around the door all right so if you
look at this door it won't even shut
because it needs drove this way you can
tell because the top is touching the
frame almost and down here we got a gap
so that tells me that this door needs
pulled this way so all we got to do is
take one of the screws that came with
the door and drive it into the side of
the jamb and it'll drill it over so
every door comes with a screw pack it
typically is going to include three to
four screws with two of these foam
Corner weather stripping pads so all you
got to do take one of these screws out
we're going to drive that into this
upper hinge to start drawing it over
some where it needs adjusted
foreign
go ahead and just snug it up and check
the reveal so now that you got your
reveal looking nice go ahead and take
the remaining screws and put one in each
hinge and these Drive pretty easy but
you don't want to over tighten them you
just want to Snug them up because they
can adjust the reveal of that door
now after you put those screws in double
check to make sure you revealed it and
change too much and then we're going to
shim behind the hinge and then tighten
those screws up all the way some doors
send a fourth screw this door did not so
I'm just going to use a decking screw so
what the fourth screw does is go behind
this weather stripping and it just helps
secure this side of the jamb so when
you're opening shutting your door it's
more stable so what you need to do is
take an eighth inch drill bit pull back
that weather stripping pre-drill a hole
right between the two slots
all right and then I like to put a
little countersink on it
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because the heads of the decking screws
are pretty aggressive
so now just drive that screw in snug
all right now shut the door and see how
that reveal looks now so it looks like
we're a little snug there so what I'm
going to do is take a couple shims and
put in here tight
and then tighten up that screw a little
more just enough to drive this Gap just
open a little bit more all right let's
check the reveal one final time
okay it shuts very nice reveal looks
nice and even I like it and across the
top looks good and sometimes it's okay
to have more of a crack on this side
than this side because over time the
weight will pull this door down some so
it'll actually straighten that reveal
out up top just FYI so I got a shim in
this top corner and in the middle and at
the very bottom and now what I like to
do is take trim nails and go from inside
of the jam here
and put a trim nail in each shim so go
in from here in and from here in so
since I got my handy dandy little finish
nailer
I can just take a little shortcut here
try to go behind the weather stripping
and then
boom we got a nice little trim nail
holding that shim it's going to hold
that jam securely as well and already
put a nail here and then what I like to
do is go on the outside
and then take your finished nailer or
finish nails
and just tack this trim into place
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and this gun just makes it way too easy
and then that's what's going to look
like from the outside looks very good
and just go ahead and put some more
Nails in
this just helps secure this brick mode
and yet gives it a nice uh secure finish
so a good tool to use to cut these shims
when you have a pretty thick shim is to
use these oscillating tools and they
just run right up against the edge of
the shamin will cut it right off
now if that was only one shim I would
have just broke it off and took a
utility knife cut behind it first and
just snapped it but when you have a shim
that's relatively thick this is
definitely the way to go whenever I have
a door on the outside of a house that
does not have a cover over it it gets a
lot of element exposure so I like to
take what's called flashing tape this
stuff is kind of like a rubberized tape
that's used for going around windows and
doors and that way when rain hits out of
the house and comes down hits that brick
mold it doesn't get right behind the
door so I'm going to put a strip of this
above the door and you can put on the
sides of the door too but the main thing
is above because once that rain hits
above it it doesn't go behind the door
and on the sides it's also going to be
right down the side anyways and as you
can see here I got house wrapped behind
the door which is going to help add a
little layer of protection so I'm just
going to put a nice strip above the top
of it and then just take Tyvek tape and
go down the sides to make it more air
proof and that'll also keep the water
out too just in case some goes against
the brick mold so let's get that done so
that's what you want on top up your door
if water hits here it comes here and
then over the door instead of behind the
door so I like to do that not everybody
does this but I do and if water drains
down these sides and just goes straight
down so that way it won't get behind the
door but I still take Tyvek tape and put
behind here and that's what the door
looks like from the outside and this Jam
is PVC the doors fiberglass and the
brick mold is PVC as well so this door
should never rot and that's one thing I
spent a little more money on but you
don't have to worry about it which is a
huge plus so I need to make sure I get
these holes covered up so that way water
can't get in here so I need a door knob
on there ASAP these little foam pads
that came with the door are for the
weather stripping if you see light
coming in from a crack you can just
stuff this behind the weather stripping
it's going to help push it out some so
that way it makes it perfectly air tight
and with that being said you want to
make sure you insulate around the door
with either spray foam or just tuck
regular fiberglass insulation into that
crack spray frames better but regular
insulation works as well but that's all
I got in this video for you I want to
say thanks a lot for watching and again
my name is Josh you're saying it's all
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