How to Hang an Interior Door with Wickes

In this tutorial, our Wickes expert shows you the best way to hang a standard interior door. This guide covers everything from acclimatizing the new door to your home to making final adjustments for a clean, professional fit.

Follow the below steps for replacing an interior door:

1. Acclimatise the new door to your home by laying it flat on an even surface for three days inside your home and remove your old door.

2. Work out if your new door needs trimming by standing it up in the door opening and marking the top of the opening on the door with a pencil.

3. Take the door out of the doorway and secure in a work bench, then, transfer the measurement you took from the door frame to the bottom of the door and add 3mm before trimming away. To allow for clearance, trim 3mm off the top too.

4. If the width of the door doesn't fit measure the door against the frame and divide this measurement equally between the two sides. Trim this amount and an extra 3mm from each side for clearance.

5. Get the door in the position it will eventually hang by placing small wedges beneath the door, maintaining an even gap of about 3mm around the door and mark the position of the existing hinges at the bottom, middle and top onto the door.

6. Remove the door and position the hinges on the door using the marks you just made, drawing around their outline. Once you've done this measure the thickness of the hinge plate.

7. Use a chisel to cut around just inside the marked lines, then hold the chisel at a 45 degree angle to the door frame and use it to make stepped cuts to the required depth every 5mm.

8. Turn the flat side of the chisel towards the door and chisel out the recess for the hinge plate.

9. Using the hinge as a guide drill pilot holes into the door. Once drilled, carefully screw the hinge plates into place.

10. Pick up the door and place it in the position it would be if open at 90 degrees. With the door in this position, put a screw in the bottom hole of the top hinge plate and screw into place, then do the same with the bottom hole of the bottom hinge plate and one more time with the top hole on the top hinge plate.

11. Check that the door opens and closes without catching anywhere. If it catches mark the area, remove the door and make the necessary adjustments to prevent it from rubbing.

12. If the door shuts cleanly make any final finishes like painting and cut outs for latches if required before screwing in the remainder of the screws.

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