How To Install Surface Mounted Continuous Hinges On Double Doors

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How to install surface mounted continuous hinges on double doors.

Get free shipping on qualified surface mount door hinges or buy online pick up in store today in the hardware department. With over five years of experience professionally mounting and installing objects through his company jason s handyman services jason s work includes working with mounting window ac units designing art gallery walls installing kitchen cabinets and replacing. If installing double doors with double action hinges fitting one door s hinges with tension up and the opposite door s hinges with tension down tends to help them function smoothly. Learn pro tips for mounting hinges on projects such as box lids and small doors.

This refers to whether the adjustment point faces the ceiling or the floor. To locate a full surface continuous hinge or a half surface mounted onto the frame insert a shim between the top of the door and the header at the hinge edge. I also think the method where you only mortise the doors for the hinges and surface mount the hinges on the frame is under appreciated. Line up the hinge with the door side edge of the frame or your alignment line being sure that no part of the base of the hinge protrudes beyond the frame.

Using the thinner pressed hinges you probably aren t mortising the door any deeper. Do not completely remove these fasteners. Sandor nagyszalanczy shows you how to install surface mount hinges how to lay out and cut the mortises for butt hinges how to install easy mortise hinges and how to use a rockler jigit template for cutting the complicated mortises for quadrant hinges. Full surface continuous hinge heavy duty limted frame in aluminum model thi 1183lfhd al.

Yet it reduces the work by half improves alignment and allows you to inset doors from the plane of the face frame. If installing a full or partial surface aluminum geared continuous hinge loosen the fasteners securing the cover s. With the hinge in the open position use a shim to position the top end of the hinge 1 8 below the header to allow for door clearance. This article was co authored by jason phillip jason phillip is a handyman specializing in mounting and hanging objects onto walls.

Global door controls 83 in. Double action hinges can be installed with the tension up or down.