How To Change Old Closet Doors

Lay the new door across a pair of sawhorses and set the old door on top aligning the top end and the lockset edge of the old door perfectly flush with the new door.

How to change old closet doors. They look so rustic. Mark and trim the new door. Reach up to the top of the door and if there is a locking lever push down to release it. Then remove the hinge pins and lift the existing door out of the doorframe.

Steps for installing an interior door. Then compress the door like a sandwich lift up from the bottom and remove the door from the bottom brackets. This mom converted her sons flat bi fold doors into these beautiful craftsman style closet doors that really stand out. If the doorknob is on the left you need a left handed door.

Measure the existing door and doorframe. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to replace an interior door. Open the door and stand with your back to the hinges. Lay old door on top of new door.

Trace around the old door with a pencil to indicate where the new door must be trimmed down to size. The strike side the side with the lockset of these doors has a beveled edge so the door can swing freely. Remove your old closet doors. If the knob is to the right select a right handed door.

Close old door and measure up 12 inches from threshold and mark the door. If needed mark and carefully trim the bottom of the new door to fit the existing doorframe. Correct clearance for an installed interior door is 1 8 inch on the sides. Once i took out the old molding i had to put in a filler piece to lower the top of the doorframe to be level with the door molding at the top.

This step was easy for me since only one of the doors was still hanging on. Remove the old doors and the old closet track and any extra molding inside the door frame 1a. Old shutters look gorgeous as closet doors. Some blank doors have a specific swing direction.

Take precise measurements of the existing door and doorframe. 1 remove the old door. The existing closet doors were large heavy and difficult for jenna the eight year old occupant of this bedroom to open and close. Prep the top of the door to accommodate the new doors.

Cover the doors in chalkboard paint to give your child a fun canvas to create on every. Keep tops and hinge. Pull hinge pins and take down old door.