How to Install an Interior Door

hey kids it's great to see you again and today I'm going to walk you through how to replace an interior door in your home so I'm going to take this one out and we're going to put in a new one and I'm just going to walk you through that what what that looks like um but first we have a dad joke for you so when is a door not a door when it's a jar so anyway let's get started okay when changing out a door the easiest way to do it is to get a prehung door and I'll show you what that looks like cuz basically it's the frame and the door and everything if we just wanted to try to change this door it'd be pretty complicated and the amount of time that you would put in trying to just swap out just the door compared to just replacing the frame and everything else and you'll see this Frame is an old frame and it's wood we want it to be white and so I'd have to paint all that too so you'll see it's just so much easier just to pull the whole thing off all right so the first thing we want to do is remove the trim and so you want to use a knife so that it's not sticking to the paint okay so we're just going to take that and run it right right down there okay so now we're just going to use a pry bar of some sort and try to get it underneath there be careful now right you don't want to damage your trim if you can okay kind of work it a little bit okay that popped free got to be careful on these seams too cuz a lot of times guys will sh shoot a nail through there and we are trying to save this if we can right so worst case scenario we have to get new trim that's not the end of the world but looks like it's perfectly good to me so we're going to try to keep it I did want to be able to show you this so I might turn the camera around so you can see what's going on here there's this Frame right here see and that's just framing the door we're going to pull this whole thing out and just stick it in a new frame just like that so if you want to remove a door without taking the hinges off you can just pull the pins like that see so that's there and I'm going to do the same thing on the bottom you do is just stick something underneath there and pop it out you can pull the pin now that door will just come off of there okay this door will just come we can just remove it so now you can just see that we're going to this thing this is just a frame here and it's pounded in probably pound it in here okay okay okay so you just want to make sure double and triple check this right that you get the right door um so this this opening here I measured the door beforehand and the door itself is 28 in okay with the frame it's 29 1/2 in and the way this is is 30 30 in and so they give you some wiggle room right CU you don't want to have it be so tight you can't get it in here that would cause a lot of frustration so they build in um some wiggle room for you so I do have the correct door I double checked that and it's they come primed usually so I'm going to go ahead and put a coat of paint on it too um but I before you put the coat of paint on it make sure that you got the right door right cuz then otherwise you're going to be out a door and then you got to GL the right door and you got one that's painted that you can't use so anyway so double and triple check that I've got my my prehung door I've double checked everything to make sure it's the right door when you do this there's going to be Nails right so you want to make sure all your nails are gone cuz just one little nail stuck in here uh is going to be frustrating for you you're going to be wow why is this thing not fitting and you're just bumping up against a silly little nail that's still sticking out just a half an inch and it's you know these things are tight enough to where you don't have wiggle room to accommodate that so you got to be able to to make sure it's clear so make sure you have no Nails on on either of these sides or sticking out the front we just want to make sure it's clean it is I went ahead and already double checked all that and so so anyway so we're getting ready and then here's another thing when you're picking out your door you got to pick out the the correct size and then you also got to pick out the the the side that you want the knob to come out right these prehung Doors come set for you I knew I want this thing see my hinges are just like they were on the old ones they're on the this side which means the door is going to swing out would have been a you know you get yourself into a bind you have it it's swinging in can't have that door swinging in right it's got to swing out and so just be careful with that make sure you know your where your knob is pop those off all right and now we're going to pop those pins out of those hinges to remove the door my last my last door had uh two hinges this one has three okay okay CU that's just a plug that holds that together for shipping okay this door is off of here now okay so now I just got my frame go ahead and put it in there so I got it in I had to kind of um CU I got tile at the bottom here right and so this thing wasn't quite going down inside and so I just had to kind of remove a little bit of the tile and then now it's sliding in now I got a different problem on the inside I've got some Sheetrock that's hanging down so I'm going to have to trim that back and I'm going to go ahead and get a tool uh to do that which will make that job way easier so all right so you see this this is what I'm hitting I got the frame and then there's just this little bit of sheetrock here it won't let me get it all the way through so I'm going to go ahead and remove that you could use a knife if you needed to since I have this tool it's going to make it that much easier and I have things covered with this plastic so even though it's going to create a little bit of a mess that's okay so we should be good now that's what was holding it up there you go beautiful thing all right since I just made that mess I went ahead and cleaned that up right cuz if you don't uh and we're in the middle of this I'm going to be tracking that and you know I've got to go get something and I've got the sheetrock dust or the drywall dust on my feet and I'm walking and you know tracking it around clean it up first before you go any further I understand that you probably want to get the door installed but it's best to do that first so so what we're going to do here is I need to make sure this is level and I'm going to make sure this side is level cuz this is the uh the side where the hinges are and that actually looks it's actually Plum is what you call it when it's this way you know but everybody knows the term level so we're using this particular side and it looks pretty good not going to be perfect right but so we can actually do go ahead and put that one in um and I've got so it depends on what you have you know you might have there's a couple ways you can do this you can use it with a hammer and nail right if you got that you could probably put a screw in it the screw head's going to show a little bit more and so I'm going to use my air compressor and my nail gun and I'm just going to go ahead and shoot that in I'm just going to put for now I'm going to put two Nails cuz I don't want to make this permanent just yet okay and I'm going to go ahead and I want to keep it flush here right cuz this is where my trim's going to go okay so it's important that it's flush on this front or Clos to it right again doesn't have to be perfect so I don't I didn't need any shims to to get that to come out right but I will on the other side okay and it's flush there put a nail in here and then the nail in down here okay for now that's all we're going to do I'm going to take a measure measurement make sure my door will still fit let's just see what this looks like obviously on the top you know that's since it's got a bracket here or it's got a top piece connecting this this is going to be fine right 28 in no problem thing is on the bottom it can it can get a little wider it can get a little narrower so you want to make sure that you're good there too okay so it is yeah it looks great actually right where it's at so so what I'm going to do is I have these shims okay and you can just buy these they come in a little pack like this and I'm just going to go ahead and put those in I'm going to check my level on this side too or the plum right yeah it's about the same as it is on the other side okay so so now I can just put that in there okay it's a little thick so all you need to do is just use two of those see that's what a shim is just like that and then you can just put a couple in if you need to and you can slide them back and forth like that to make them make them thicker right so we're going to go ahead and put that in here let's see what it looks like something like that and then with that tool that I have I can just buzz that right off right so I'm going to go ahead and see what we look like okay it's a little wide right there compared to what I want 28 about 28 and A4 cuz the door is 28 and you got to have some wiggle room for the for the hinges and everything so 28 and a/ quarter right here it's about 28 and 38 so I'm going to go a little bit okay see what that good guy looks like and then you can just bust these off too unless it's a little thicker then it makes it a little harder right you got to you probably have to cut it so I'm going to do that and slide that guy right on the button perfect okay I'm going to go ahead and put a put a nail in here okay and I'm going to put it right into that shim okay we are looking golden here okay okay everything's looking pretty good I just put a shim down at the bottom and now I'm going to do it one last one up here see see that and then I can just kind of pull them and make them fill in the Gap right so when you use a shim you can just see that so you start out kind of thin and then you can just slide them together and see how that it's getting thicker and thicker all the way up to there right so so that's what I've done there double check I think it's always good the double triple check we're good it's right right up near the top so this one's going to be the easiest one anyway so we do that [Music] again okay again I'm just going to put One [Music] Nail all right so when you're tapping these in you could if you wanted to just use a hammer um it's not a bad idea to use something to protect it so that you're not you're not marking up the the metal right okay it's a beautiful thing okay I can put a few more Nails in now because I know it's good all right so we just got to put the trim back I'm just going to start on one end and work my way around you want to have a little bit of a reveal here meaning this is held back a little bit from this Edge right here you don't want to have it right next to it just a little bit one in here okay and then the way you do trim is you just work your way around [Music] [Music] okay beautiful so I went ahead and installed the door knob uh I have a separate video for that if you need to know how to do it it's fairly simple but I walk you through all the steps and I just didn't want to take the time in this video to show you show you how to do that all right so I hope that was helpful for you thanks for watching and God bless you