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Hanging Doors


Peggi

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I may have mentioned that Riley is a truck driver, although he is home every night, he leaves very early and usually has to be in bed by 7:00 or 7:30. I mention this because you will understand that sometimes to get him to do things for me he only gets to work on my projects if he happens to get home by 3 in the afternoon and is not to tired. Well, I've been depending (and waiting) for him to hang my interior door, in order for me to move on and get the floor/ceiling glued in and to glue my roof. The interior door was all I needed to call the downstairs completed (other than the elevator that may or may not get done this weekend). Night before last he promised he would hang it today, but I asked him, what he did to the front door. He went to bed, and I decided to tackle it. Thinking he could fix any damage I may do.

So here's what I did:

Step one: Drill a hole in the doorway of the wall in both the top and bottom. Riley used a dremel, but since I really didn't want to take a chance of destroying the wall, and I have been known to let it get away from me, I used a tiny hand drill that came with a "starter mini tool kit". Following is a picture of all the things needed to do this.

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The hole was drilled in the roof the width of the drill from the edge. Using this measurement

Step two: Drill hole in top of door.

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Now to make sure my measurement for the bottom of the door was correct, I inserted the small nail through the floor while holding the door in place and push just enough to mark the spot where to drill the bottom hole.

Step Three. Insert a pin--I used a regular straight pin, but one a little thicker might work just as well, (Riley started out using a needle he had shortened.)

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I cut off a very small portion of the pin, but that's because I had drilled the hole about half way the distance of the drilled portion of the bit.

Step four: Insert pin into top doorway hole; line up bottom of door and insert nail.

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I used a short, tiny nail, I think there called finishing nails. Riley actually rounded off a dowel piece and use it as a plug.

I did have to take it out and sand the sides of my door a little more, one side wanted to hang a little. But it went back in easily enough.

Here's the end result:

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If your pin seems to small, you can add glue to it to keep it in place.

My door may not swing as freely as I thought it would or as freely as Riley's did, but it does swing. For my first try, I'm very proud of myself. I apologize for the quality of the pictures, but it is hard to hold things in place and hold the camera at the right angle also.

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ahhhhhhh I see!

a straightpen and a finishing nail

nice hole in top of door and door frame and more of a notch in bottom of door to accomodate the nail head?

hmmmm well ok than....lemme dig out the tools and suplies.

;)

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Nutti: I used the nail to keep it from going through the floor. The door will kinda pivot on it. I hope this makes sense. It was so much simpler than I thought it would be. Please let me know if yours works. If it does you will be like me and be so proud.

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Thanks, Peggi, the finishing nail makes sense. I'm going to have to experiment to see if it'll sub for the chamois for me.

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Thank you all for you nice comments.

Holly, you might could also use one of those pins that has a little ball on top for the bottom (for the life of me I cannnot think of what there called). Anything where the head is bigger than the needle part.

I really hope this works for you.

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