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YouTube DIY channel that will help you
do renovations at home and get
professional results today we are
installing a brand new door in an
existing hole here's the thing if you've
ever had this situation in your house
you try to stick a 24-inch door into a
24 inch hole and it barely fits a lot of
this is because over time things are
moving around 800 layers of painter on
the door we're gonna get to it today and
show you how to fix every one of these
problems and install a door from scratch
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so one of the biggest pet peeves we have
in renovations is people trying to
renovate a space to brand-new and they
want to keep the door why you'd want to
keep a door to a bathroom that's had a
moisture problem I don't know but
usually they don't function well there
delaminating they've got oil and latex
paints they scratch easy they're just a
joke throw them out get them to handle
but now you're forced to deal with this
issue paint after pain after paint layer
house settling this door barely sneaks
in here if I throw hinges on this thing
I'm guaranteed to have a horrible result
I'm not gonna be able to swing it open
and close even though the door has got a
little bit of beveling on it so what
we're gonna do is show you the tips and
tricks not just how to create a space
where this will fit but how to Marvis in
your hinges how to drill your holes and
line it all up and how to have a
successful new door installation in an
old space so first thing is first you
got to figure out how bad the situation
is so I'm right on the ground this is a
24 by 80 door it's very standard
off-the-shelf my gap at the top is a
little bit too big which is great
because the reality is is when I lift
this door up leaves me a little gap at
the bottom so our height it really isn't
quite enough that would be a good gap
underneath the door but I don't even
have enough space for on top of the door
not to mention swing is everything level
so when I look at the bottom I'm also
sitting on a marble sill that's on the
slope so I want to add a little extra
space so we're gonna cut down the bottom
of the door okay that'll give us the
extra space that we need at step one
step number two side to side I'm really
tight okay so what I'm gonna do to solve
that problem is I'm gonna take out my
hand planer and this is a simple tool
that I keep on the truck because every
time I run into a situation with an old
door and it needs to be fixed
I got a plain one side so that I can get
the room that I need to put a fresh cake
job on so because I don't want to start
making the the hinge side thinner
because these are hollow doors and you
don't want to mess with the integrity
strength of where the hinges go we are
going to take it off of this side now
this door fits pretty good
and traditionally what you want is about
1/16 of an inch gap here and about 1/8
over here we've only got the 16 going on
so we're going to set the planer to 1/8
give it a quick rip and then follow it
up with a quick little sand and then
we're going to be able to drill the
holes whoo now the thing about using a
hand planer on this side of the door is
once you start you can't stop
you don't start in the stop in the
middle or it's going to get ugly so you
have to be able to commit to doing the
whole line and then that'll give you a
nice straight edge look just like a
factory cut so first thing we got to do
is get this outside get out the tools
get the planer cut the bottom and then
we can come and measure for our hinges
the first thing we need to see is that
the door has got a bevel and what
happens is when you're swinging the door
open and closed the shorter side of the
door okay that's the interior of the
jamb and the wider side of the door
that's the exterior of the jamb so that
will help you to set this up if you're
putting it in backwards you're in for
one heck of a challenge we only need a
quarter inch off the bottom and a solid
eighth off the side this is my planer
has one wheel with a couple blades
incredibly fast moving machine and this
table here actually adjusts the the
depth to cut more or less alright and
that's all there is to it so we just got
to set this to what we want and I'm
loving that and then make sure that I
can do this all in one pass all right
and then all we do is just drive it down
the street
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love this tool then we're gonna take a
quarter inch off the bottom
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perfect so now now we're back in with
our playing door once again we're just
gonna stick it in the space all right
now you can see my height at the top
much better
look at beautiful gaps down here oh yeah
no this is really close and it's
possible when we're completely done that
when we try the operation of the door I
might need to set the planer on
something like really tiny just to do a
little bit of custom curving at the
bottom but for now I think what we're
going to do is we're going to go for it
now when we put this door in we saw that
the gap was very consistent across the
top that's really handy if it's not then
you're gonna want to scribe the top use
your planer and maybe a hand belt sander
and just get that perfect curve but
that's pretty extreme and usually an
applicable with houses that have like
stacked stone foundations and that sort
of thing most situations how should sit
pretty square and that won't be an issue
now we did go out and pick up the same
three-inch hinges that we had here
before so they will fit perfectly in the
old space all right nice the only
problem is sitting a little bit proud on
this new jam the new casing here so
we're gonna have to clean that up
and the reason I just want to mark here
every every age of every house has a
different dimension that they set the
hinges this is an odd thing if you go to
the store they'll actually sell a door
that has the hinges already pre placed
and the knob for the hole already done
that's only good for you if it's a
relatively new door that you're changing
it seems like every 15 or 20 years they
change the set height amount for hinges
and door handles so that you can't go
buy something pre-cut I'm not sure I
think I said promote you buying a
brand-new door jamb as well but all you
have to do is measure it from the top
down to here and this one in this case
Wow we're gonna call that six and a
quarter we're gonna mark that in because
what I want to do is I want to get this
hinge cut in so I can put it on the pin
and then I can actually fix the other
one perfectly so what I do is I take to
my hinge side and I mark down here but
it don't go six and a quarter go six in
an eight and here's why I'm setting my
door intentionally a little bit lower
because I've got a doorstop and I want
to have a bit of gap here to make sure
that I don't have rubbing so measure
this side translate that information -
1/8 put your pencil mark
now this particular hinge it is about a
full quarter away from the jam all right
from the doorstop sorry so when I
translate this over onto this side if I
put this hinge flush then I have the
door stopping a quarter inch from the
doorstop so what I want to do is I want
to come over here and I want to add a
full eight here okay
and I just trace the top and the bottom
and then down the side alright and that
leaves me with the cutout for my hinge
so all of this and I'm going to try to
leave this which is good because this is
a hard board on the wood so if I'm just
taking the wood out only I'll leave the
hard board actually get the right depth
set and this is something that you can
do in your house all you need for this
is a basic chisel now traditionally my
chisels aren't in the greatest shape
simply because I don't use them often
enough to baby them
and when I'm on site I tend to trust and
rely on caulking to finish some of my
finishing trims here well I'm doing this
just setting the depth that I want to
take out then I want to use my knife to
separate the wood from the melamine the
luan in the front here
now over the years the wood that had
been using these doors is I'm getting
worse and worse order okay if you have a
really good chisel this one's actually
not that bad so you can just slide it
along if it's good otherwise you need a
hammer all right
and the secret here is to try to not
take out more than you need we're gonna
backfill it back filling it with a
little pieces of cardboard like the old
sixties carpenters know if you're gonna
bring this thing towards you gotta be
careful because remember if it's that
sharp you can do it without a hammer can
you slip this is gonna go right to the
bone anything that cuts wood that easy
trust me it's not stopping until it hits
bone so be real conscientious about
where this is gonna go off the slips how
this work is tricky the high board panel
doesn't work as nice as would I would
suggest using a hammer here okay no we
do as we set our hinge here and see how
we're doing I'm still a little proud
okay so we're gonna take a little bit
more all right now we're nice and flush
we're good to go
very important here understand how your
hinge works the pin pulls out from the
top so you close it is at the top of my
door I set the top of the pin at the top
of the door open it up and now I'm gonna
set a couple of screws in this bad boy
here's a little trick for you put the
tip of the drill bit in the hole
pound that
then you got somewhere for that screw to
sit before you drive it in it'll go down
the middle of that hole every time like
yeah that way you're not fooling around
looking for where to put that screw okay
take the hinge pin out take the other
side and go ahead and stall that in the
door jamb all right so now we're gonna
put our hinge back where I bought wait
okay all right now huh so while my son
is busy doing one thing I'm doing
another what a novel idea so what we're
doing here is we're just setting the
hitch period
okay and you can just wiggle it into
position usually so here we are my MDF
casing is still in the way for the
hinges so now we're gonna cut some of
this away myself a little bit of room so
now what we want to do is in order to
get this set perfectly because you don't
want your hands to be squeaking is you
install this hinge in the existing
original position one two and three
don't over tightening or they won't grab
so now the door is hanging in position
from the top you slide it right over
here to the sweet spot which is not
necessarily square because the door
might not be straight the wall jamb
might not be straight the house
definitely isn't straight but now we
have a trace line that'll be perfect
when I install it
and you see how nothing in this house is
square but this also means that nothing
is gonna squeak so now that we've got
that set up perfectly just a matter of
throwing the screws in let's see how the
door closes perfect every time
okay so I picked up a defiant knob set
from Home Depot big surprise good deal
gives you privacy and mom and I can
always use a screwdriver to break in now
in case you weren't aware these set for
two different depths depending on how
far back you set your latch I like to go
the deeper Hall you know grown-up hands
it's nice having a knob just a little
bit away from the door but if you're
putting it into an existing door it's
good to know you got options screws last
plate blah blah
here's the instructions you can read
them if you want to but I picked up this
little kit today to demonstrate for you
guys at home this should have everything
you need and it was not even 20 bucks so
the first thing we want to do is create
our great big hole here we go okay well
that's quite the pilot hole right so the
first thing to do is just put the last
plate back now we obviously ripped out
an old piece of brass so location here
is not rocket science just reinstall all
right poof now this is how I like to
operate that's the middle part of my
latch okay so I'm going to just close
the door mark the middle point and then
I'm good to go
I'm gonna do is I just set my pencil
here and close the door on it
the sound of my pencil breaking is
actually how it leaves a mark that's the
mark of the middle of latch and that'll
set the center up for the whole door no
this is snug it's a perfect little gizmo
and I'm just gonna mark my Center Bowl
right here and this comes with a pilot
hole right there in the middle of the
door over here all right now we have a
pilot hole here's the latch that
represents where it's sis here's the
centerline of that latch with the center
of my door that's how I know that I'm in
good spot if I picked the other hole I
just move this like I said like the
novel way from the edge a little bit
gives more room for your hand so now
we're going to drill the hole and
embrace it on your foot
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and I'd like to drill with a bit of a
rolling motion it makes my whole just
about 1/16 of an inch bigger than it
should be and then it doesn't overheat
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yep
I'm through on the other side that way I
finish with a nice clean edge here
now we go with a one-inch spade bit
don't they come with the kit one-inch
hole is the perfect size here's a
perfect size or is it too big it's
actually kind of big if I had my drill
bit case ami I'd use the fifteenth
sixteenth here but I don't so I'm not
we're going to just follow the system
now the trick here is it go squaring on
the door
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there we go
when you buy your latch it comes setup
with this and if you like you can draw
trace this out and you can chisel it out
and set it in or you can just get rid of
it altogether it just pops off okay and
little pins here they just line it up on
the hole and you can slide them off and
then you just slide this back on in the
same fashion right over those pins okay
and then why you got to do is line this
up in the direction that the door is
closing done that's perfect now the only
thing you have to do remember here is
the safety lock for parental emergency
access to the bathroom that goes on the
outside of the door and then this one
over here goes on the inside the river
now these are you want to just put on
with your fingers find the hole on the
other side and then you got to get one
of these this is a protective sheath for
my drill bit so I can set my drill bit
on later I'll pull this down and I'm not
getting a mark from the metal drill bit
on the handle and you just go a little
bit of each time and then take our
hammer and set this
right into the wood before we tighten up
the screws that'll give us the maximum
amount of space that we can have for our
door Oh perfect so that's the basics for
the door remember all you got to do now
is give it one more quick sand
and another touch-up coat of paint and
you're ready to rock and roll
so if you ever want to change your doors
an update it's that simple
it's just a couple of steps all of that
process and you'll be just fine thanks
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how this project turned out
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