Installing Interior French Doors In Existing Opening

We purchased our french doors from our local hardware store.

Installing interior french doors in existing opening.

Roughly center the door. Watch french door install video below. Prep the opening figure out your space s opening for where you want install your doors. This can be a pain in the ass but if you use existing door as a template it will go much smoother you will defiantly need a little patience.

How to install exterior and interior french doors in a existing opening step 1. Here are the doors we bought. Rough opening must not be twisted see test below. Set the double french door into the rough opening.

We purchased pre hung french doors to make installing them even easier. Use a hammer to tap two wedges under the door until the top of it is within an eighth of an inch of touching the ceiling. For more how to video visit. This is the hole in the wall where the door fits gaps between doors and jambs must be equal.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Take note of what reference notch on the bracket the drawn level line happens to pass through. Before we could install them we needed to trim a little off the bottom of the frame. Bob vila takes a close look at the process of installing french doors.

For standard door frames french doors are also available in pre hung kits making installation simple and straightforward. You re more than likely going to be removing the drywall and or trim around the space. Stand the door vertically into the opening as if it already were installed. Using the level line drawn on the wall screw in the top bracket on the side of the door where the level line was drawn.