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Building your own exterior doors allows to customization.
Difficulty: Moderate
Things You'll Want
Exterior door jamb package including threshold Exterior prefab door slab, bored to knob plus lock 16 d nails Wood glue Hammer Treated deck screws Exercise Hinges Chisel Shims Doorknob
1 Cut the 2 side jamb pieces from the package to length because tall as your door opening, minus the height of your threshold and 1/2-inch. This will allow the frame to slip easily inside the opening. Cut the jambs with any circular saw on the opposite end about the jamb from the notches supplied for the horizontal header.
2 Measure and lower the horizontal header the width of your door slab, additionally 3/4-inch with clearance and to allow for the notches in the side jambs. Glue and nail the header between the part jambs, fitting the ends of the header into the notches.
3 Attach the threshold to the bottom of the jamb, subsequent the instructions that came with your kit. Inside general, drive 1 5/8-inch treated deck screws up by means of the mounting holes in the threshold in the bottom closures of the part jambs.
4 Lay the completed jamb frame on a pair about saw horses, inside face up. Lay the door, centered, in the jamb with the knob hole on the identical side as the striker bolt hole with the jamb. Mark the position of your hinges on the door face and the jamb. Place the top hinge 12 inches from the top regarding the door and the bottom 12 inches upward from the bottom; center the middle hinge between the other two.
5 Remove the hinge pins to split the hinges. Tap a screwdriver down through the hinge to remove the pin. Operate a hinge plate as a template. Place it on the within face of the jamb on each hinge place and mark hers outline on the jamb. Do the same to the edge of the door. Reduce out the substance inside each about these hinge outlines, 3 on the jamb, 3 on the door, with any wood chisel and hammer to a depth of 1/8 inch.
6 Attach fifty percent of each and every hinge to the jamb in the cutout outlines you made using 3/4 inch wood screws and a drill. Attach the remaining half about each hinge to the edge of the door by means of 1 1/4-inch wood screws. Align the hinges and tap the pins within place to attach the door to the jamb. Remain the jamb upright, centered in the wall opening. Wedge shims behind the best corner of the jamb on the hinge side. Place some degree on the edge of the door plus adjust the bottom of the door within or out to center the bubble. Add shims behind the jamb by the bottom corner and in the middle. Nail through the jamb and shims into the frame with the top, middle also bottom.
7 Repeat the shim, level and nail method on the knob part jamb. Add shims above the horizontal header and nail up through it into the frame above. Drive one 3-inch treated deck screw down through each mounting screw hole in the threshold.
8 Insert the striker bolt of the knob in the decrease hole bored in the edge of the prefab door. Attach by 2 screws in the door's edge. Put in the dual halves of the knob through the holes with the striker also thread the double mounting screws into the holes in the baseplate of the knob on the inside of the door. Tighten them with a screwdriver.
9 Repeat the process with the deadbolt, inserting the bolt, attaching with screws, inserting the splits regarding the lock barrel and threading and tightening the mounting screws.
Tips & Cautions
Add door casing to the inside frame and brick mold to the outside to finish the installation. Window packages, known seeing that door lights, are available to healthy into all regular thickness door. Lower your hole, screw the trim ring together and voila, a custom "lighted" door.
References
"Replacing and Installing Doors and Windows": T Jeff Williams; Sally W Smith; Ron Hildebrand; Rhonda Hildebrand; Ortho Books, 1987 "Windows and Doors: Installing, Repairing, Replacing": Various Authors; Taunton Books, 2006
Photo Credit schwedenhaus image by Jens Klingebiel from website ;
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