I made up our minds that I want to cross forward and set up the French doorways to our bed room suite because the ground is within the strategy of being torn up, and Felicity (our cat) has now been beneath the home no less than 3 times. The bed room the place the ground is lately being torn out (the teal door at the left within the picture under) does have a pocket door on it…

I ordered two of those slab 10-lite doorways from House Depot.

The explanation that I ordered slab doorways as a substitute of pre-hung French doorways is for the reason that doorway the place I wish to set up those doorways has already been trimmed out. I’m turning this cased opening between the track room and the hallway into the entrance to our new bed room suite. Ultimately, the entrance into the toilet will likely be closed up, and the toilet will likely be out there at the reverse wall of the toilet. However that’s for over again. For now, I simply had to get those French doorways put in on this already trimmed out cased opening.

The cased opening is 46 inches large, so I ordered two 24-inch-wide doorways in order that they might be aspect sufficient to hide the hole, however understanding that they’d must be lower down just a little. And since I sought after to try this the best way conceivable, I bought non-mortise door hinges for the doorways. I purchased 3 hinges for every door. Non-mortise door hinges don’t require using a router or chisel to put in the door. You simply screw the hinges without delay to the door jamb and to the brink of the door and not using a mess or fuss. It’s tremendous simple! I did purchase longer screws, despite the fact that. Since my doorways are roughly heavy (and now not hole core doorways), I didn’t wish to use the ones little screws supplied with the hinges.

Beginning on the most sensible of the door jamb, I measured down 6.5 inches, after which screwed the hinge in position in order that the highest of the hinge was once at the pencil mark.

Subsequent, I measured up from the ground 7.5 inches and made a mark. I screwed the hinge on in order that the ground of the hinge was once at the mark. And in the end, I measured and marked the middle level between the ones two hinges and screwed the 3rd hinge onto the door jamb in order that it was once focused between the opposite two.

I repeated that procedure at the different door jamb.

Subsequent, I used scrap lumber to shim the door up top sufficient in order that there was once about 1/8 inch between the highest of the door and the highest jamb.

This was once somewhat tough doing all of this on my own — retaining the door in position, lining up the brink of the door with the hinge, and screwing the hinge into position. However with some persistence, I controlled to get it screwed on. I began with the middle hinge simply because it was once the perfect to do first. Had I began with the ground, I might have wanted someone else to assist me dangle the door in position, and had I began with the highest, I might have needed to do all of that balancing act on a ladder, which might were extremely irritating. So beginning with the middle hinge made extra sense. I didn’t make any marks earlier than screwing the door to the hinge. The marks you spot there are simply from the steel of the hinge scraping in opposition to the door as I attempted to get the door in simply the correct position.

However as soon as the center hinge was once hooked up, the remainder was once really easy. I did the highest one subsequent, and it was once really easy to line up and get it screwed on.

After which the ground one was once additionally really easy. So it was once actually simply the primary person who was once somewhat difficult.

And right here’s how that regarded as soon as all 3 have been hooked up. You’ll see mild across the door with this kind of hinge, however that drawback is solved as soon as the forestall is hooked up.

Earlier than attaching the forestall, I first needed to set up the second one door. I put in this one somewhat in a different way since I wanted the doorways to check precisely. As a substitute of beginning the set up of the second one door with the center hinge, I as a substitute measured the location of the highest hinge at the first door, and replicated that specific placement on the second one door, predrilling the holes to make it so simple as conceivable when I stepped up at the ladder, after which labored my means down. As a result of I used to be running with pre-drilled holes, ranging from the highest and dealing down on the second one door was once in reality relatively simple.

I made up our minds to put in the doorways earlier than trimming the surplus width. I’m handiest going to trim the surplus width off of the interior edge on every door, so I’ll do this by means of getting rid of the hinge pins to take away the doorways, the use of my round noticed to trim the brink, after which rehanging the door by means of merely lining up the hinges and hanging the pins again in.

I do know that simply trimming off the surplus with from the interior edge on every door will make the stiles on every door other widths. And if the entrance handiest had one door on it, I’d by no means believe doing that. However because it’s two doorways, and so they’ll be easiest reflect photographs of one another to take care of that steadiness, I believe it’ll be effective. Proper? You’ll have to steer me in the event you disagree. 😀

To complete up the door trim, I had to set up forestall across the edges. I began with the highest piece, which I lower with my miter noticed after which hooked up the use of 1.5-inch 16-gauge nails.

After which I hooked up the aspect items of forestall.

You’ll see how the forestall covers over that small hole from the non-mortise hinges.

After which I hooked up the forestall at the different aspect. And right here’s what the doorways seemed like once I stopped for the night time.

Slicing the doorways down would be the maximum nerve wracking a part of the mission. I’m now not having a look ahead to that section, however I’m having a look ahead to those doorways being totally put in! When they’re lower down and put again into position, I’ll want to set up some ball catch closures at the most sensible jamb in order that the doorways will in reality keep closed. Optimistically I will be able to get the remainder completed nowadays and display you the completed French doorways the next day!