Replace Door Hinges Without Removing Door

Take precise measurements of the existing door and doorframe.

Replace door hinges without removing door.

Use your pencil to mark the location of the screws in the jamb. Repeat process for hinge 2. Measure the existing door and doorframe. Replace the hinge back in the jamb where you cut the mortise.

I ll be replacing all the hardware in the house. The hinges are installed at the factory when the door is assembled. When you replace a door slab in an existing frame you may have to mortise the hinges into the door. Most new doors are sold in a pre hung format.

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. Leave the hinges on the door. Remove the hinges when you re done marking. If needed mark and carefully trim the bottom of the new door to fit the existing doorframe.

In this jeld wen customer care video you ll learn how to remove and or replace hinges on interior doors. Place the door with the exterior side down across two sawhorses. 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. Remove the old door from the jamb.

Not only do i have a door that actually stays open now i also have chrome hardware instead of the gold. Install the new door hinge and secure all six or eight screws. Replacing exising hinges is one possibility and installing hinges on a replacement door slab is a different job. This took me about 10 minutes.

Then remove the hinge pins and lift the existing door out of the doorframe. Mark and trim the new door. We used a table saw but a circular saw will also do the job.