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Hanging the Front Door

At the Malibu beach house, Bob meets with Jack and Kent Colstead to hang the new arched top, vertical grain, Douglas fir front door. This door must be hung from scratch and requires careful scribing, as well as a host of other door-hanging tools. Jack gives some hints and tips for hanging the door.
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Hanging the Front Door

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" What's the first step. Well first methods to would take it put it inside the opening. Sit in where it's going to be describe their heads to get it lifted up. So united admitted tools of the pencil and a -- aren't going to give it every minute. Sure you're okay. And it. Got it. Yeah yeah. Who popped up with this pretty much OK isn't it yeah I asked type elements. And the for the main area of concern is the top in here right. So what do you do -- We're going to deal through and we've got some of these shims oh yeah I love you can get shims packaged now Heidi as you know neck area -- perfect every time yeah. So what we're gonna do is. We've already put a little space underneath the door so that we can just like these shims underneath. And we can also uses pry bar to bring the -- up we want to do. And we'll put -- under here. And just a matter but it. Tapping on -- the top -- rise yeah and then it pop is going to come out and and more no that was again. Power is prescribed. Top of the door until the top of the case of the yeah the end end."

" When describing want to keep here -- described in the pencil vertical. And it'll pick up the exact head of the door. And when we bring it back we'll gonna lift it back up again and make sure the reveal his right."

" Now that's the thing I want to talk about this is an interesting workbench you fellas tapped out about it. This Corbett actually doubles up -- the -- people would be some plywood over it. You accidents and you've got -- old carpeting on the edges so that if you put doors down you don't have to worry about scratching them yeah it's also important -- stores do. So inside here we've made some hold the -- so that we in Decker. Drill and routers and what have you in there and you get power. -- when he power and -- outlets with the Soviet. And over here what we've done is we've put the other adjustable shelves standard on here and we just. With these brackets on it and if we have a shorter door we just raise him up. Lock it and and now we can you root -- or conflict or whatever terrific. Well are ready to put this big guy down yet. What CX here for. It is a reference point. So you know that's the hinge side is on the inside in the doors -- inside you know make mistake you don't need your sides confused yet. All right so this is all that we have describe upright. Yes that's right. And you use your power of place you know got a power play analysts -- a satellite right now. Go for annual return of just. Well that line. So I'm not doing on the line let you down here."

" A little bit in the gap up here that we tell or. Square. And that wrinkled and moreover there."

" All right for the -- described it been sanded what's the next step the next step is -- hinges on. And I made a mark on the door coincides with a mark on the GMOK unanimous vertical line here. They'll be the middle of the middle of the -- now because this is an arched door this is as. As high up along the doors you can actually puts something -- and still be flat starts to curve here. Right generally they have a tab on hinge template and butt up against the square that pretty nice instantly yeah. It makes it makes it job easy so we mark this with this bird in the middle. In weeks. -- this is Bob increase. And this simplest course will serve as a guide for the Robert that's going to. Plow out -- this would so that we can put our hands down and avid board -- Credit rating."

" And the same template is used on a damp. General screws. We have let to. But the hinges on here and then jam and --"

" These -- oil bronze ball bearing hinges. And you really do need for a room. Yeah yeah island or this week threatened that."

" Okay a moment of truth."

" Beautiful."

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