How to Install Offset Hinges | Swing Clear, or Expandable Hinges for Walkers, Wheelchairs, Rollators 

I went to Amazon first to see if they had these. It only had a picture of the hinge. So I decided to come here to see if someone might have done a video for them. Well here I am 😅. Great job in every aspect. I felt like you were an online personal instructor. I don’t think you missed a thing. Ty 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I agree with the comments. I’m tackling this project this weekend, and I couldn’t ask for a clearer set of instructions. The tips you gave for this are superb. Not only do they answer questions I was having, but are likely to save me hours of frustration. Thank you!

I can't thank you enough for this. I just bought my first home and I am currently trying to make my house more accessible for my mother when she visits/to encourage her to come visit by making it as comfortable as possible!

Brilliant! I've got a disabled Mum who's having trouble accessing the toilet. These hinges are gonna help heaps. Thanks for showing this! Love your channel.

Thanks so much for this video! I have a hard time visualizing how pieces will fit together sometimes and these hinges messed with my head. Your instructions and tips really helped make this an easy task.

Great information and great video. I am an occupational therapist and Southwest Wisconsin doing Home care in private practice. I used your video to help me the other night when I was installing some of these for a client.

This is such an excellent idea without having to hire a contractor to make the doors bigger!!!

I appreciate you. We had slight hiccups but this video made it easier.

Thank you so much for the brilliant video. It's the only one I found with such installation details and specially the headache saving tips. Luckily my 2-hinge bathroom door opens/hinges on the OPPOSITE door frame/jam and the pin faces up after installing 2 separate hinges from Amazon. But one should be able to remove the pin before installation, install the hinge plates separately, and finally reinsert the pin the right way. Alternately, you could pop the pins out AFTER full installation but make sure you shim the bottom of the door securely against the floor FIRST so that the weight of the door doesn't damage the jam at the bottom after removing the top pin. In my case, after installing the new hinges, the door got shifted (by one thickness of the hinge plate) towards the frame and it would NOT close at the top. I had to first shim the door against the floor, remove top hinge from the frame/jam, chisel out about 1/8" of material from the TOP hinge cutout/pocket, and reinstall the top hinge with the provided 3/4" screws. The door now closes perfectly but the distance between the frame/jam hinge and the free end of the door has now increased by almost 3". This causes additional stress on the TOP FRAME HINGE, when the door is fully open, with a heavy door or if someone pushes down on (or hangs someting heavy from) the door handle. This is fixed by replacing the 3/4" MIDDLE screw of the top hinge (or the screw or screws closest to the edge of the hinge) with a 2.5" or 3" long screw so that the hinge now screws into a stud instead of just the door jam. The longer screw should be inserted AT A SLIGHT ANGLE towards the center of the door jam to ensure that it engages a stud. The screw head will no longer be flush with the hinge plate and it may protrude a bit but this does NOT interfere with fully closing the door. As a precaution I also replaced the middle screw of the BOTTOM hinge in the same manner. The door now opens and closes solidly and it provides almost 2" of additional clearance. All that for less than $25 in materials and about 1 hour of labor.

Great idea… I purchased these and installed them by your step-by-step instructions. They did give me enough space to get my wheelchair inside the door, but not my walker.… and because of the design of my trim, the door would not close completely unless I were to cut out or remove my trim to make the hinge lay together flat. I do not like to be cold in the winter time so I do not want my door to not close properly.

Thanks for making this video! Nothing like having you make the mistakes for us, ie door first, frame second. And yeah your teeshirt says it all!

Thank you for making and posting this video. God[Bible] Bless you.

Wow. Thanks so much for your video. I knew I would be able to do this as all my sisters call me handyma'am, however I am especially thankful for the advice of putting the hinge to the door first! Saved me time. Was a very easy install as all the hardware was the same size.

Excellent tutorial! As an RN I have done teaching of complex topics for the public for years. It is not easy to distill key technical points and cautions. To explain a thing simply one must understand it well ---you did a great job.

Excellent and thorough explanations with very clear video of installation and final function.

Love this! Gonna be doing this on all the doors (bathroom and bedroom) in my mother’s house.

Thank you. Followed your instructions and got them installed. The extra width was a big improvement.

Thank you for showing this!

Great video and recommendation! I saw you post about these hinges on IG earlier and I've converted 2 out of 5 doors. We will save thousands of dollars - thank you!! And I messed up a few times on my first install too. One tip I find helpful when installing by myself is actually to remove the pin from the hinges, screw the pieces on separately, then line up the door and reset the pin. I also had trouble getting the door to latch closed so I removed the trim on the inside doorway for a tighter fit, then reinstalled smaller pieces around the hinge. Thanks again!

Thank you for making this clear, informative and wonderful video!

Omg😅, ty so much for posting, helped me do it right the first time, usually I try several ways to do projects

Thanks - very helpful

Thanks and wouldn’t have known about this simple option.

YES! Thank you! I did it!!!

Excellent content, thankyou.

Thank you for your video.

Thank you. This video helped me immensely.

Very helpful!

Very useful and informative - it's given me an idea to solve a problem. Thanks for taking the time !

Thanks it was a great video

great offset hinge video

Really good your video, I had no idea how this works, thanks

So many handymen dont know anything about these. My dad just moved into AL, bedroom doorway too small. I had to order these and install them myself.

Fantastic! Tyvm!!!!

Also when putting your screws into the old holes, put a tooth pick in it . Keeps the screws from stripping

No wheelchairs in my house (yet, knock-on-wood), but these look ideal for widening a garage door for ease of garbage bin and wheelbarrow access.

Just one thing, i learned this the hard way. I assume it applies to all hinges. there are two different curves to the plate. The larger curve ( featured here) will fit in the door if the smaller curve was used prior ( see the gap where the door and frame was rotored ), but not vice versa.

Great video, how does this work on a door that swings the opposite direction? Is the 'bulky' part of the hinge always on the side which the door swings into? If so if the door swings toward the room opening (like a closet), would the bulky part be on the room side (always in view)?

I have a quick question: Do you think that this was the correct size hinge? I noticed when looking on Amazon that there are hinges that will fit either the 1-3/4" or the 1-3/8" door - but the one in your links states that it will fit BOTH sizes... so it MUST be larger that the one that fits a 1-3/8" door... this may be why at 04:35 you can see such a wide offset before the angle that would normally fit against the edge of the door...

I have a question you might be able to help me with i want to leave the sliding doors i have but put hinges on the doors are these special hinges?

The hinge pin is upside down here and falls out. Great video until my pins fell out!

I do have a wall that the door swings against. So what's the clearance do you need for your hinge. (how close can the wall be?) Also how far does the door shift INTO the room since the interior door knob will hit the wall when I swing this door open all the way but the bathtub is close like 4-6 inches.

Will this type of hinge allow the door to open 180 degrees?

Hinges is installed upside down. The pin for a hinge always faces up. This was the wrong hinge for this application. A hinge installed with the pin facing down leads to the pin falling out over the years.

Are the hinges supposed to hang upside in your video?

Hi. What is the link to these hinges on Amazon?

Does anybody make offset hinges with about1/2" LESS offset than the nominal "2 inch" ones? My mom's wheelchair can *barely* scrape through the bathroom doorway with about 1mm to spare, but the offset hinges I bought (with 2 inch nominal shift) are a little too big to fit due to the doorframe being too close to the perpendicular wall (the door trim itself was trimmed to accommodate the profile of the wall tile on the perpendicular wall). For what it's worth, the hinge I originally tried was 63mm (measured from the outermost part of the hinge-pin shroud to the surface that would be in contact with the door... the nested inner part was 59mm). To fit, it needs to be about 9mm less (let's say 1cm if I don't want to live dangerously and risk having it not fit if my measurements are slightly off).

All my interior doors have 3” hinges, ain’t I lucky?

While you had the door off the frame, this would be the time to cut the bottom of the door about 1/2 min, and why? Now the bloody door will clear the carpet you should also have in the bathroom.

Why not lay it on its side so you don't have to reach up like that since it's already freestanding? It'd make everything easier. With that said, I'll be going to the store today. Lol

Has the pin on the top hinge fallen out yet? Or did you correct your installation after posting the video?

O.K. could have been a 2 minute video, too many breaks.

A man would have taken the pins out first and it would have been faster and easier

What? get your man to do that and make him a sandwich. Gender roles are key to a happy relationship.