How To Install A Door Hinge Pin Stop

When buying match the metal finish on the doorstop and hinge hardware.

How to install a door hinge pin stop.

Simple and effective door stop that doesn t affect your baseboards. The everbilt satin nickel hinge pin door stop model 15586 is an easy way to add a door stop without drilling a hole in your baseboards or having something in the way when you vacuum along the edge of the baseboard. If you you have a door that is swinging and hitting a wall or other objects in your room there is an easy way to control how far the door can open. Slide the pin back through the door stop hole and the hinge.

With nothing to limit its range of motion a door can swing too far open and damage the wall beside it all too easily. For lightweight interior doors a hinge. Hang the stop in the top hinge of the door. Note the direction that the hinge pin is facing the flat part is against the door the round part hits the molding.

To avoid having the doorstop punch a hole in a hollow core door install the stop so it hits the door no farther. Installing stops that screw into baseboards is equally simple. Tap it back in with your hammer.