How to Fit Perfect Door Hinges 

It depends on the person. Those who see it and appreciate it prob know how difficult it is!

I’ve fitted a few hinges during my DIY lifetime but I’ve never known the exact recommended positions or in deed the correct way round to put the hinge, 3 pivots to the frame and 2 to the door. My fittings have been random up to now! I also won’t be sharpening my pencil any more!

My wife notices lol

@@Mikerumball 😂👍

Superb video 👍🏼👍🏼

A great presenter as well.

Yes he SURE IS! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😁 And he is more practical in his approach. Great for beginners who may not have all the fancier accessory tools handy.

Well I'm glad you found something useful in the video!

Stainless or so soft !

Pilot them and when youve Placed your screw in the pilot hole scrape your knife against a bit of sandpaper over the screw heads.works a treat to stop them slipping out

The hinge screws are find just hit the hinge with the Vix bit to pre-drill very screw your going stick a screw holes on the hinge and lower the torx pressure on your screw gun and hit the center of the hole with an 1/8” drill bit if you don’t have Vix bit, if the Screw is way thicker use a 3/16 drill bit, or the screws heads will snap. Do not use a regular Drill because you can’t control the torx pressure on a regular drill to drill the screws. I’ve installed more than thousands of Doors For Builder Square, HomeDepot & for Lowe’s at their Costumers houses. I’ve made Front Entry Door’s and Raised Panel Cabinets, and installed many Kitchens, custom and store bought cabinets a lot of other wood work. Commercial Building and all their hardware and Complete Houses. From cutting roofs to inside fabricating Interior Dom roof’s to Stair cases hand rails, Crowns, Interior wood work of vehicles. I’m just a very old wood craftsman. Just in case you question my experience. Hope it works for you, cheers.

I use decking screws haha never ever had a problem

Thank you. I hope it gives you some tips

Thank you very much

He wasn't riveting. He was using screws.

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you

Well his method of putting a 12”steel ruler ( not a joiners tool) across the edge of the door to somehow allow marking the hinge depth wouldn’t work as shooting the door in to an old frame requires planing a slight back fall on the edge of the door,all joiners just hold a pencil and run it freehand using door edge to gauge off simple

Nice one Pamela I'm glad I helped

Thanks

Well thank you very much. This is this type of comment that keeps me going!

Absolutely brilliant bloke. His skills, tips, tricks, etc are excellent. And his film-making (or video-making) skills are better than excellent. A thousand thanks.

Thank you very much - very kind words.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Sorry, but it is not a simple job.

@@kirkhamandy I have a good router, and made a little jig for rebating hinges, but before I get on with the rest of our doors I'm hoping Stu has suggestions that make the hanging easier. That's this week's excuse for putting it off anyway. 😇

Thank you - I've learnt after many years of doing it the wrong way!

Thanks, will do!

Thats really good to hear - exactly the aim of the channel! Start with something, it doesn't matter what, go slow and expect some things to go wrong along the way but thats how we all learn! Good luck!

Very good

Glad I could help!

All you need is a 38 mm chisel, much more accurate ,ridiculous using 18 mm

That’s what I use, I just set the depth of the router to match the hinge depth, then freehand cut it out, staying clear of the lines, then finish off with a corner chisel and a normal chisel, I have graduated to marking knife from the stanley knife, it’s quick and easy.

Similarly, the chippie on mine must have had his eyes closed at the same time - not a straight line in sight!

that comment actually made me laugh

Haha. I'm doing loads of DIY in my house and finding that the first year apprentice that built my house probably skipped all that training rubbish. My wife even tell friends the apprentice built our house. I have a challenge coming up. How to fix those doors that have closed by themselves since we moved here 1990. Hung on a non-vertical door frames. The levelling and squareness course must have been during nap time.

It’s marketing he’s trying to sell “Perfect Hinges” - the brand lol 😂

You are perfectly correct

Yeah but we can still understand What he’s saying 👍 it’s no big deal.

@@thedj5914 They didn't say it was

@R S derp 🤷‍♂️

Thanks. Measuring is not accurate enough. Need to offer the door up an shim in place and then mark as I did with a knife

@@ProperDIY video please!

the best way to mark up for hinges, is to make up a stick, with hinge positions marked, with the door gap at the top marked on the stick, always measure from the top of the door going down. once its made, its easy to mark both frame and door with one stick, and is perfect every time, a rough guide to hinge positions is “the top of top hinge, 6 inches down, the bottom of the bottom hinge, 9 inches up ( from the bottom of the door) the centre of a centre hinge, central, between top and bottom hinges, ( there is far more forces acting on the top hinge, compared to the bottom one, so its not a bad idea to fit the middle hinge a little above the centre point between top and bottom hinges on the door,

Thanks

do a demo on you tube!!

1) You're assuming DIY'er own marking gauges and 2) I think I've proved you don't need to

Thanks . Depends on the type of chisel. My ones are essentially a steel rod from blade to top so no way they will split

Glad you like them!

You'll know when I get sponsorship when I start using the big table saw!

I use a palm router ...I have 2 Axminster jigs one set up for 4 inch hinges and one for 3inch hinges really quick and accurate..trend corner chisel to square the corners. they must have paid for themselves ten times over...only have two jigs as I'm too lazy to mess about adjusting them

Good stuff!

I only use cheap chisels

@@ProperDIY me too but I still use a mallet even on my cheap ones.

Thank you

It is

Why my way? This is a DIY channel for DIY'ers - most don't have a marking knife, marking gauge and a wide chisel!

47 years experience and still watching diy videos? FFS sad or what?

Very true! Everyone should know this before moving onto routers etc

Hi Ian, I am an old carpenter joiner. At the Theatre where I work we often get outside contractors in to do large builds etc. Very few, if any of the modern day carpenters can sharpen their own chisels. I sharpen all my own tools including my Disston saws, Cast steel marples, Ashley Iles, and Scharwhecter chisels. Plane blades also. I know of no carpenter that has been to our place who can sharpen a plane so it doesn't leave tram lines on wide timber. That's if you can find one who even uses a hand plane. I'm 61 and probably a boring old fart but was always taught that you weren't a Carpenter until you could sharpen your own tools. Sorry!!.........the boring old fart is going now!! 😂😂. Dave.

Also Ian.....they sell chisels you can use straight out of the box these days!!! 🤣🤣🤣. I've lost count of the times I've seen er...wannabe carpenters using chisels straight out of the box because it says so on the box. And let's face it to them it probably feels sharp!! I always flat grind mine bevel up on an India oilstone to make sure the back is perfectly flat, then I hone the edge....or put on the 2nd edge as my old Dad used to call it. Take the burrs off flat again then wipe off the oil and strop it on the flat palm of my hand. Makes them like razors. It's amazing the amount of people I've sharpened chisels for who test the edge by holding the chisel like you would a hammer and press their thumb on the top!! I have to say Whoa!! Stop!! You'll slice yer thumb off!! Flat grinding hammer forged chisels can take a while though!! 😂😂. Dave.

Thank you very much!