How To Hinge One Door To Another

To make your doorway accessible a 36 door is ideal.

How to hinge one door to another.

Connect the door to the jamb. If you re hanging new doors onto old frames you will need to cut or mortise new hinges onto the door. Line up the two hinge plates so that the ones on the door match the ones in the jamb. Likewise you should place wood in the old door frame to fill in the hinge slots.

Closet doors on the other hand do not have the same code requirements and come in a range of sizes. This will let you check the the new hinge plates will be in just the right spot. Hold the door in place using blocks under the bottom to support it if necessary. You will need to place a thin piece of similar wood in the side of the door for each unused hinge slot for a good appearance.

You can move the door and move the hinges to the new location by chiseling the wood door. According to international code standards interior doors the ones that allow passage from one room to another are required to be at least 80 in height and 32 wide. Now it was time to mortise out the hinges. New doors also known as door blanks have smooth sides without any existing hinge locations.