faint geyser
so i am basically installing a door for the first time ever, and i have run into an issue where it looks like the door is sagging but the jamb seems to be level and plum, was wondering off the pictures if anyone had any ideas.
ive thought about cutting 1/4in off the jamb on the sagging side to maybe bring the jamb down to make it more even and ive thought of messing with the hinges.
didnt wanna do anything though until i got a second opinion.
thanks
rare galleon
Double check If all 3 jambs are level and plumb then the upper left hinge needs to be tightened up and the lower left hinge needs to be shimmed out.
Check to see if the jamb is still flat and level after you drove in the hinge plate screws. If it shifted you need more shims.
Just snug everything up but don't crank it down until you get it right.
Also, I'll leave this for now, but future reference this server if for fine woodworking, not carpentry.
magic hearth
If the jamb side stud is plumb AND you have enough room across for the frame at the top and bottom then you can proceed otherwise you need to fix that parallelogram of an opening first.
Take the door off the hinges. Then place the frame in the opening. Put a level on the top, if it's not level then your floor is out so that means you will be cutting a bit off of one leg of the jamb. So shim under the jamb of whichever side you need to get the top jamb level and then cut off the shim height on the other side. (you can cut the door bottom down later for whatever bottom gap you prefer.)
Then I just drop a nail top and bottom on the hinge side (you do have a nail gun right?), avoid shooting through the door stop as you might need to adjust that later. Minimally shim the hinge side up plumb. Drop a couple more nails through to the stud to keep it in place. Make sure the other jamb is touching the ground, recheck top jamb for level. Then drop a couple holder nails into the latch side jamb.
Put door back on hinges, shim the latch side jamb. If this is a solid core door, which are heavier, then you can unscrew the top hinge on the jamb side, drill a countersinked hole and screw in a 'lunker' deck screw to pull any sag weight you might experience.
Close the door, make sure the door is coming flush with door stop. If not hit the jamb in or out a tad to help it. If you are getting too far out from the face of the wall, that's life, your house is settle with crooked walls. That's some molding magic you'll have to do later. Mainly you want that door to not self-open/close. If the door stop doesn't hit exactly flush, don't worry, you can get a block of wood to tap that door stop flush later after you lock the jamb in.
Generally try to choose inside or outside wall to be flush with so you only have to do molding magic on one side.