How To Install An Exterior Door In 10 Minutes! - Beginners Guide

welcome back to the channel guys this is an exterior door installation video and if you're new to this channel my name is Josh your channel is all about building your own house saving a ton of money so be sure to subscribe and smash that like button if you find Value in this video let's get started the very first thing you need to do before installing your door is check the opening bottom and if the bottom is level you're good to go but if it's not level you need to get shims and shim it up appropriately before installing your door and you're going to use an adhesive when you install your door which I'm going to show you in a bit and then the next thing you do is see how Plumb your opening is because Now's the Time to address those issues before you have a door setting in the opening the next thing you need to do before buying your door is check your door opening width and height in this case we got 38 inches just a little over 38 inches and we got looks like 82 inches so that's going to be enough to accommodate a 36 inch door in a standard height size as well but something you need to note if you need to install let's say a 32 inch door your opening needs to be 34 inches wide typically whatever the door slab is just add an inch on each side and that's your rough opening measurements the tools needed to install your door are the following a level a drill so you can drill holes for a screw you need a number two bit on a impact driver or a drill a tube of Liquid Nails shims a hammer and some galvanized finish nails so before you set your door in the opening I use Liquid Nails and put a nice thick bead across the bottom here and make sure your bottom is nice and clean because if it's not the Liquid Nails will not adhere appropriately so again be pretty liberal with it and if you don't have a concrete bottom like you see here you need to take what's called flashing tape and tape the bottom and over the edge but I don't have to do that here because I'm sitting on concrete so major difference there so again nice thick bead and this is the time to put the shims in with the Liquid Nails if you have to shim it level so just a word of advice and again nice liberal bead for shipping purposes every door has a plug in the opening for the doorknob so be sure to remove that before setting the door in the opening because once you set in the opening you need to be able to open the door and that way the gravity is going to hold the door from the weight of the door slab in the opening if you're working alone if you have two people it's way easier you just boost it in the opening someone holds the door while the other one works on the door but I work solo a lot so that's how I do it so I have the luxury of a finish nailer I'm going to put this on my side instead of using the galvanized nails and Hammer this is a little quicker for me so I'm going to put on my side and that way I can just take it off my side when I'm ready to tack a nail to set the door so now I'm going to grab the door and set it in the opening and this is a solid fiberglass door so it's actually relatively heavy so set the bottom in first and then lift the door into place and always kick the bottom to make sure we're all the way in so now what we need to do is make sure the bottom of the door is center of the opening and it looks like on this side we got about a quarter inch Gap and on this side let me shut the door and look it looks like we got about yeah a little more in the quarter so I'm just going to tap it over just a little bit that looks good and it slides pretty easy because that Liquid Nails makes it really greasy like now I'm going to tack a nail on the outside to hold it Center and the other side as well so now what I'm going to do to secure the door is put a level on the hinge side make sure we're setting Plumb then we'll attack a finish nail on this side to hold it into place foreign so now we're sitting Plum and we're going to check what the reveal looks like around the door all right so if you look at this door it won't even shut because it needs drove this way you can tell because the top is touching the frame almost and down here we got a gap so that tells me that this door needs pulled this way so all we got to do is take one of the screws that came with the door and drive it into the side of the jamb and it'll drill it over so every door comes with a screw pack it typically is going to include three to four screws with two of these foam Corner weather stripping pads so all you got to do take one of these screws out we're going to drive that into this upper hinge to start drawing it over some where it needs adjusted foreign go ahead and just snug it up and check the reveal so now that you got your reveal looking nice go ahead and take the remaining screws and put one in each hinge and these Drive pretty easy but you don't want to over tighten them you just want to Snug them up because they can adjust the reveal of that door now after you put those screws in double check to make sure you revealed it and change too much and then we're going to shim behind the hinge and then tighten those screws up all the way some doors send a fourth screw this door did not so I'm just going to use a decking screw so what the fourth screw does is go behind this weather stripping and it just helps secure this side of the jamb so when you're opening shutting your door it's more stable so what you need to do is take an eighth inch drill bit pull back that weather stripping pre-drill a hole right between the two slots all right and then I like to put a little countersink on it [Music] because the heads of the decking screws are pretty aggressive so now just drive that screw in snug all right now shut the door and see how that reveal looks now so it looks like we're a little snug there so what I'm going to do is take a couple shims and put in here tight and then tighten up that screw a little more just enough to drive this Gap just open a little bit more all right let's check the reveal one final time okay it shuts very nice reveal looks nice and even I like it and across the top looks good and sometimes it's okay to have more of a crack on this side than this side because over time the weight will pull this door down some so it'll actually straighten that reveal out up top just FYI so I got a shim in this top corner and in the middle and at the very bottom and now what I like to do is take trim nails and go from inside of the jam here and put a trim nail in each shim so go in from here in and from here in so since I got my handy dandy little finish nailer I can just take a little shortcut here try to go behind the weather stripping and then boom we got a nice little trim nail holding that shim it's going to hold that jam securely as well and already put a nail here and then what I like to do is go on the outside and then take your finished nailer or finish nails and just tack this trim into place [Music] and this gun just makes it way too easy and then that's what's going to look like from the outside looks very good and just go ahead and put some more Nails in this just helps secure this brick mode and yet gives it a nice uh secure finish so a good tool to use to cut these shims when you have a pretty thick shim is to use these oscillating tools and they just run right up against the edge of the shamin will cut it right off now if that was only one shim I would have just broke it off and took a utility knife cut behind it first and just snapped it but when you have a shim that's relatively thick this is definitely the way to go whenever I have a door on the outside of a house that does not have a cover over it it gets a lot of element exposure so I like to take what's called flashing tape this stuff is kind of like a rubberized tape that's used for going around windows and doors and that way when rain hits out of the house and comes down hits that brick mold it doesn't get right behind the door so I'm going to put a strip of this above the door and you can put on the sides of the door too but the main thing is above because once that rain hits above it it doesn't go behind the door and on the sides it's also going to be right down the side anyways and as you can see here I got house wrapped behind the door which is going to help add a little layer of protection so I'm just going to put a nice strip above the top of it and then just take Tyvek tape and go down the sides to make it more air proof and that'll also keep the water out too just in case some goes against the brick mold so let's get that done so that's what you want on top up your door if water hits here it comes here and then over the door instead of behind the door so I like to do that not everybody does this but I do and if water drains down these sides and just goes straight down so that way it won't get behind the door but I still take Tyvek tape and put behind here and that's what the door looks like from the outside and this Jam is PVC the doors fiberglass and the brick mold is PVC as well so this door should never rot and that's one thing I spent a little more money on but you don't have to worry about it which is a huge plus so I need to make sure I get these holes covered up so that way water can't get in here so I need a door knob on there ASAP these little foam pads that came with the door are for the weather stripping if you see light coming in from a crack you can just stuff this behind the weather stripping it's going to help push it out some so that way it makes it perfectly air tight and with that being said you want to make sure you insulate around the door with either spray foam or just tuck regular fiberglass insulation into that crack spray frames better but regular insulation works as well but that's all I got in this video for you I want to say thanks a lot for watching and again my name is Josh you're saying it's all about building your own house and tongue mice and be sure to subscribe if you're new to that and I will see you in the next video peace

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Length: 10min 13sec (613 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021