(lively bluegrass music) – G'day knuckleheads, Uncle Knackers here. I'm now at that point in my renovation, where I'm hanging a few doors, doing some architraves and some skirting boards. So I thought it might be a good idea to show you how I hang a door from start right through to the finish. Now there's plenty of ways to do it, and everyone has their own system. This is how I do it, and because there's a bit involved, I might break this up into a few different parts, so you don't get information overload. Alright, we'll kick off. We're setting up your door jambs, ready to hang the door. So this is the doorway where my door's going to be hung. And the door itself is swinging in that direction. So this stud here is the stud where your hinge side jamb is going to be attached to. Now, this is the big secret. Don't tell your mates. The very first thing you need to do, the very first step is to get this stud nice, straight and plumb, which might require a bit of packing. But do that and the rest of the job will just flow beautifully. So let's do it. So my stud is actually pretty good. It just has to go across a whisker at the top, and that'll be spot on. Now my doorway has about 30 mil clearance once the door jamb has been put in. So to bridge that gap a little bit, I'm putting in these blocks. (nail gun firing) So one up the top. One around the middle. (nail gun firing) One down the bottom. (nail gun firing) And then one each in the middle of those two spaces. (nail gun firing) Beautiful. For some door openings, you may not even need blocks like this. But in my case I had to. And now that they're installed, just grab your straightedge, up against those blocks, grab your level, use some packers and get that nice and plumb. And this the packing that I use. It's a Masonite strap, or strip, which you can buy from your local hardware shop. It's about 1/8th or three millimeters thick, and you can either use it in that dimension, or you get your electric planer, and plane it down into various thicknesses. Let's do it. So I think it requires a fairly thin strap. And up there. And that is as plumb as it gets. So I'll nail that Masonite packer in place. If you're using a nail gun, that'll go straight through that strap, or that packer. So I've got some soft sheet nails, or some clouts, and I'll just clout him on. (hammer tapping) That's beautiful. Now put your straightedge back against those blocks, and use your packers again to pack out where you've put all of those blocks in. So with that straightedge hard up against the top block, and hard up against that bottom block, just use your packers and try and bridge that gap between the straightedge and the block. And the trick is not to have a block that's too big, that's going to push the straightedge out 'cause that'll through that studwork out of plumb. So with your packers, just work your way along until you find one that fits. And this one here is absolutely beautiful. So nail him off. And then do the same process for the rest of those blocks. (hammer tapping) Absolutely spot on. So there's step one all finished. Pretty easy, wasn't it? And what I want you to do is to go out and do that step, and then come back for video two, or step two, which I'll leave a link for in the description box below, where we'll be installing the door hinges. So go out, do that, and come back for video two. And don't forget, big thumbs up. And, I'd love to know how you went. So leave a comment in the comment section below. Good luck, 'til then. Cheers.
