French door installation? I have installed prehung exterior double french doors and I can't...
I have installed prehung exterior double french doors and I can't draw from them to close properly. The inactive side closes clearly but the other door seems too far over and will not close. I can simply close the doors if I open both and close simultaneously. They are fiberglass so I cannot bevel the door. Any tips?
Answers: Working from top to bottom, cut some greatly thin cardboard shims. They requirement to be flat, not corrugated cardboard. Cut strips about 1/4" yawning. Loosen the screws on the jamb side of the hinge. Insert one or two shims down the hinge at the stop side of the hinge. Retighten the screws and do impossible to tell apart for the remaining hinges. If called for, add more. This will verbs the door tight to the jamb, giving more clearance in the center. Hope this help.
EDIT: If you still have access to the shims between the jamb and the framing, loosen those and see if that pulls the door over. If not, next you can shim the hinges as I stated above. You do not involve to completely remove the hinge, just loosen it satisfactory that you can slip the cardboard between the hinge and the jamb. What this does is change the angle of the drum of the hinge, pulling the door closer to the jamb. Make sure that the cardboard shim is on the stop side of the hinge. Good luck.
you have shimmed the door wrong. Take the trim past its sell-by date and remove some shim from the inactive side, afterwards draw your long hinge screws up. Then check your reveal's if dutiful your done. if not remove shim from busy side and draw up the long hinge screws ect...