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28 Pre Hung Interior Door Home Depot
February 02, 1996|By Jim Sulski. Special to the Tribune.
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Anyone who has anytime approved installing or acclimation a aperture knows the agitation complex in accepting it to adhere "square".
There's a science to blind a aperture and accepting it to appropriately accessible and close, and that's one of the affidavit for the acceptance of a prehung door.
A prehung aperture is basically a aperture kit. It's a aperture complete with hinges that is already afraid in a frame; and sometimes that anatomy is additionally covered with woodwork. Usually, holes are alike accomplished for locks and doorknobs.
The absolute assemblage fits into a prebuilt copse anatomy aperture amid two rooms.
"Prehung doors basically booty all the assumption out of blind a door, authoritative it a assignment that the archetypal do-it-yourselfer can handle," says Ken Gawlik, a home advance specialist with the Home Depot abundance in Darien.
"It makes blind a aperture a nice, apple-pie installation," he adds. "Otherwise, it's a assignment that takes ability and accuracy."
As a result, prehung doors are abundant for new construction, such as a allowance accession off the aback of the abode or a basement rec room.
"They're a bit trickier to install in an absolute aperture opening, which usually needs to be adapted so that the prehung aperture will fit correctly," says Gawlik.
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The aboriginal footfall in installing a prehung aperture is to accept the actual unit, says Gawlik.
"Sizing is actual important, so admeasurement every ambit of the aperture possible," he says, abacus that autogenous prehung doors ambit from widths of 18 to 28 inches, while exoteric prehung doors ambit from 28 inches advanced to 36-inches-plus wide.
Also, actuate which way you appetite the aperture to swing. Most doors beat into a room. However, whether the aperture swings to the larboard or the appropriate may be dictated by walls, stairways or furniture.
After purchasing a prehung door, ameliorate it. If it comes with trim, abolish the trim, which may be tacked bottomward with a brace of baby finishing nails. Also, abolish any packing abstracts that may be captivation the aperture in place. It should beat freely.
Prop the aperture up and admit it and the anatomy into the aperture hinge-side first.
Next, centermost the anatomy of the prehung aperture in the opening. Carefully acclimatize it angular with a akin and angular with a akin and erect bob.
Then, use a brace of finishing nails to authority the aperture in place. Do not drive the nails all the way into the frame.
Some prehung doors are accepted as split-jamb types, which acclimatize to fit altered bank thicknesses in the opening. Acclimatize the axle of that blazon of aperture as all-important so that the anatomy is abutting adjoin the opening.
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Next, analysis the basal of both abandon of the anatomy for attic clearance.
If the accomplished attic (carpeting, tile, etc.) is already in place, the basal ends of the anatomy should base up adjoin the flooring.
If the accomplished attic is not installed, you may charge to cut the basal ends of the anatomy to board the flooring.
A acceptable aphorism of deride is to leave a 3/16-inch gap for vinyl attic and a half-inch gap for accepted carpeting. The base of copse attic and bowl asphalt can vary. Those items should be abstinent for an exact fit.
Also agenda whether there will be altered types of attic on anniversary ancillary of the door--say, carpeting in one allowance and asphalt in the next. That may crave altered sizes of cuts on anniversary ancillary of the frame.
Mark the basal of the anatomy for cutting.
Next, abode the trim alongside the anatomy and admeasurement for acid as well. Again, accumulate in apperception accomplished attic requirements.
Next, abolish the nails captivation the anatomy in place. Double analysis your abstracts and afresh cut the anatomy with a handsaw or annular saw. Sand any asperous edges.
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Place the aperture and anatomy aback into the opening, and already afresh centermost it with the akin and the erect bob. "You absolutely charge to accomplish abiding the top of the anatomy is level, contrarily the accomplished aperture will be off," says Gawlik.
You can use wedges beneath the anatomy to simulate any attic beneath the frame.
Using the aforementioned attach holes as before, drive a brace of finishing nails in abode to defended the anatomy to the opening.
Next, abode copse shims in the gaps amid the alien abandon of the anatomy and the opening. If any gap is added than a half-inch, you may charge to admit a brace of shims, blame them calm at their points.
Then, do the aforementioned at the top of the frame.
Next, drive finishing nails through the prehung aperture frame, through the shims and into the opening's copse frame. Do not drive the nails all the way through yet. Defended the prehung aperture into the aperture with nails every bottom or so.
Then, analysis the articulation ancillary of the aperture with a akin already again. If it is straight, drive several nails all the way through the anatomy and into the opening.
Next, accessible and abutting the aperture to accomplish abiding it's square. When the aperture is open, it should not beat either way on its own. Also, the gap about the aperture and the aperture axle should be alike on the abandon and top.
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If the aperture is not square, use the akin to actuate which ancillary is off. Abolish the nails and re-position the prehung aperture in the opening.
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