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Watching a guy try to hang a door with just a speed square made me cringe
I was at a supply house in Bend picking up some trim and saw this guy in the parking lot trying to set a pre hung door on sawhorses. He only had a speed square and a pencil, no bevel gauge or even a framing square. He kept checking the reveal at the top and bottom, but the hinge side was way out of plumb because he wasn't accounting for the floor slope. I finally walked over and showed him how to use a 4-foot level to scribe the hinge jamb to the floor first. How many of you still see people skipping that basic first step?
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mark7231mo ago
Watched my buddy try to install a door in his old garage last month. He spent an hour shimming the lock side, completely baffled why it wouldn't close. Turns out he never checked the floor with a level first, and the whole slab had a serious tilt. Had to pull all the trim off to fix it.
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casey39315d ago
My first door install looked like a funhouse mirror, all because I trusted the floor was flat. Let's just say I learned the hard way that a level is not a fancy extra tool, it's the main character. That poor speed square was doing all the heavy lifting it never signed up for.
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