Fill Door Hinge Mortises

Position your door so you can clearly see the back edge.

Fill door hinge mortises.

How to mortise hinges on a standard interior door. When it came down to it it was really no big deal. It allows the hinge to fit flat and flush with the edge of the door inside a shallow cut. First fill the recess with a piece of a paint stir stick.

The job was to fill the old hinges and strike mortises in casings where doors had been removed. There was a slight gap between some of the 2 4 pieces and the door frame so luke came in with some finishing caulk and filled it. Typically middle hinges go in the exact center of the door top hinges sit 7 in 18 cm below the top of the door and bottom hinges rest 11 in 28 cm above the bottom of the door. Then place 1 of your hinge s wings flush against the spot where you want it to sit.

First i tackled the doorway between the 1st floor hall and the front room. And the results might still be less than ideal. You ll find the thickness of the stick is close to the depth of the recess. After that i gave the whole door two coats of kilz primer.

This means filling the door hinge with putty and sanding. It can take several applications and lots of time. If you ve recently removed a door from its frame to replace it with another door that will use hinges in different locations or that will hang on the other side of the frame or if you don t plan to fill the space with another door you ll need to fill in the cutouts you made in the door frame when you first installed the hinges.