On Friday our class was divided into two groups. One Half proceeded into hanging doors and the other worked on alternative projects like the toolboxes and chopping boards.
I went onto work on the doors; after last weeks theory we now got to put that in to practice, we started with a single door that sat within a steel frame braced against those around them. We could not ensure that they where plumb, because the lecturers had already fixed them. However we got stuck in any way, we first tried to sit the door within the frame and check it for size, one we know how much needs to be taken of we put the door in a vise or brace and planed down the hinge side with a buzzer, allowing a few more millimeters to be taken of the inside edge.
Once the doors fitted within the frame with a few mill clearance on each side (taking into account the fact the hinge(build into the door) was not get chiseled out). We then raised the door using wedges packing the top out two millimeters. At the back of the door you ensure that there is two to three mill cap between the back of the door and the rebate, ensuring that the doors does not become hinge bound, when marking this cap onto the hinge side of the door you mark them taking the hinge away from inside edge, pushing the hinge out further along with the door.
Once the door is sitting flush within the frame, you mark out the hinges out using a pencil. You take them down and use a square to line them up, you mark out you're hinge depth, height and width across the door with a marking gauge or without and then proceed to chisel it out to the required depth.
Once you're hinges sit flush within the door, you will then lift you're door using wedges to height so that the hinges lines up, you then countersink and screw the highest point on the top hinge, you then screw the bottom hinge on and close the door. This method requires quality time to be taken when marking out and my door did not tacking down.
Double Doors:
The same processes are used while hanging double doors, only allot of care needs to be taken to ensure that they are plumb and level with each other, equally the latch side of the door on double doors need to be planed with a slope backwards, allowing the doors to close without touching.
Installing Door Hardware:
On our single door we installed common passage handles with common latches, You start by finding you're latch height (as it was a steel prefab frame) and proceed to mark the middle across the front of the door (in pencil) you then find the depth of the common latch and mark that vertically across the horizontal height line. Where they cross is the middle and where you're hole saw should aim at.
Once the hole big enough to house the door hardware was drilled out we then marked the latch out using the same method to find the middle height and width across the latch sides face, we then used a chisel to take out the latch plate, ensuring it sits flush. Once thats done you get a spade bit large enough to fit the common passage and drill out the latch housings.
After that, you place you're latch passage through and then put the handles on, screwing it all together.
Once that is done the latch plate needed moving forward ensuring the door was tight when closed.
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