How to Remove a Door

Video Transcript

"My name's Ryan Parker with Parker Home Renovation in New Braunfels, Texas and today I'm going to teach you how to remove a door. If you need to take a door down, whether you're replacing it or if you need to work on it for some reason, the first thing you need to know if it's an interior door, is you can actually leave the door shut. That is probably the best way to do it because basically what you want to do is you want the hinge to be closed like this and you'll be able to see the hinge pin side from the inside of the room. So what you'll do, is with the door shut, you'll go ahead and get a flathead screwdriver and you'll want to push in on the bottom side of the pin and you'll want to hammer it until you knock that pin up, then you can pull the pin out. You'll want to do that for all the hinges for that door. Once you get all the pins out, the door shouldn't move because it's shut and it's encased in the door opening. So once all the pins are out, you'll just grab the doorknob handle and kind of wiggle the door open and then you'll grab it and take it out of the hinge socket. That's how you remove a door. While you have the pin out of the hinge, you might as well grease it, so you can put some of the theme grease on the pin before you put it back in. You can install the door the same way, put it back in the door opening lining up the hinge plates here. They'll fit in like teeth, kind of like this and then you'll just slide that newly greased hinge back in place on each of the door hinges. That's how you take down a door and install a new one."