Over time the interior doors of your home will start looking a bit grubby and worse for wear. This is especially true if you have little ones running around all day. If money is flush and you fancy a change, you could invest in new doors from a local builder’s merchant or online from a company like … [Read more...]
How to Hang a New Internal Door
From this post you will learn how to hang a new internal door to an existing frame. There's a short video at the end of the post, which shows you exactly how to hang a new interior wooden door. If you prefer watching over reading, scroll down to watch it. See Also - How to remove an interior … [Read more...]
How to Remove an Internal Door
To remove your old internal door, start by propping the bottom of the door with a couple of wedges so it does not 'drop' as the hinges are removed. Tip :- Screws that have been painted or varnished over will need to have the paint or varnish removed from the screw heads, this can be done using a … [Read more...]
How to Cut and Plane a New Internal Wooden Door to Size
Tools required :- Tape measure, pencil, wood saw, hand or electric plane, workbench, dustsheet. When you have your new internal door unwrapped and ready to be fitted, look at the top and bottom edges for a key or lock symbol that may be stamped on either the left or right end of the door edge … [Read more...]
How to Mark Hinge Positions on a New Internal Door
Tools required :- Wood chisel, hammer, pencil, various screwdrivers, battery / power drill, small drill bit, wedges, dust sheet. When the new door is cut and planed to size it is ready to have the hinge positions marked out. The hinge recesses on the door frame and door edge can also be cut using … [Read more...]
How to Hang a New Internal Door in Position
Tools required :- Screwdriver, wedges. Now all the preparation work for fitting the hinges is complete, you can either fix the hinges to the door frame, or as I prefer, fix them to the door edge. For the time being fix the hinges in position using one screw in each of the hinge centre … [Read more...]
How to Fit Door Handles and Latch to Interior Doors
From this post you will learn how to fit the latch, latch plate and door handles to a new door and door frame. First of all, decide on an appropriate height for the door handles and mark the centre of the door handle on the edge of the door with a pencil. Using a square, mark this centre … [Read more...]
How to Paint an Internal Door
Clean and prepare the door ready for painting if necessary (see post), with as an example a six or eight panel door, I start painting the mouldings and the panels first. I then paint the top, bottom and any other horizontal rails next. Finish painting the door by painting the vertical rails … [Read more...]
Painting Woodwork - How to Paint Wood
Once you have prepared the woodwork for painting (see this post), seal any bare wood with a coat of wood primer. If you decide that the colour change will be very different from the original paint that is already present, as an example, painting skirting boards white that are at … [Read more...]
How to Fit Architrave Around a Door Casing
To fit architrave around a door you will have to cut four mitres, two in the head (top) piece and one in each of the two side pieces. Architrave is normally set back around 1/4" (5mm) from the edge of the door casing, (see fig 1). We do this so the architrave doesn't impede the fitting of the door … [Read more...]
