Replace Door Hinges Without Removing Door

Mark and trim the new door.

Replace door hinges without removing door. Repeat process for hinge 3. Do the same with the location of the hinge on the door. If needed mark and carefully trim the bottom of the new door to fit the existing doorframe. Leave the hinges on the door.

Measure the existing door and doorframe. This took me about 10 minutes. The hinges are installed at the factory when the door is assembled. You don t need to take the whole door down just remove one hinge and replace it with a new one then do the next one and finally swap out the final one.

Take precise measurements of the existing door and doorframe. Replace the hinge back in the jamb where you cut the mortise. We used a table saw but a circular saw will also do the job. This method allows you to replace each of the door hinges without removing the door from the door frame which makes this a very easy one person job.

Place the door with the exterior side down across two sawhorses. When you replace a door slab in an existing frame you may have to mortise the hinges into the door. Remove the hinges when you re done marking. In this jeld wen customer care video you ll learn how to remove and or replace hinges on interior doors.

Replacing exising hinges is one possibility and installing hinges on a replacement door slab is a different job. Remove the old door from the jamb. Repeat process for hinge 2. Use your pencil to mark the location of the screws in the jamb.

Then remove the hinge pins and lift the existing door out of the doorframe. Install the new door hinge and secure all six or eight screws. Not only do i have a door that actually stays open now i also have chrome hardware instead of the gold.