How To Take Hinges Off A Stuck Door

Wait 10 to 15 minutes for the spray to penetrate all the moving parts of the hinge.

How to take hinges off a stuck door. Don t worry removing a door from its hinges is an easy task that can be done in under a minute. Oiling door hinges can be done easily with a spring tool hinge pin remover. A painting expert shows you how to remove the hinges from a door in this free video on updating old doors. Use hinge pin remover.

It is a pin popper and specifically designed to ease door hinge pin removal. Do not try to do this task alone as doors are heavy and can easily topple over and damage things. Once you take out the stuck door hinge pin or other pieces you can remove the door. Best of all it only requires a hammer and a small screwdriver.

So the only way to get a door open when you re on the outside and it s locked from the inside is to remove the door from its hinges. When a hinge is being particularly stubborn you can spray a silicone based lubricating spray to help it come loose. Tap the bottom of the hinge pin with a hammer and screwdriver to pop up the pin. Tapping the hinge with a hammer can loosen it up.

Open and close the door a few times to further distribute the lubricant around the hinge. Close the door to take some weight off the hinge. Spray a silicone lubricating spray over the moving parts of the hinge as well as into the top part of the hinge around the pin. If the weight of the door makes it difficult to separate the hinges wedge a pry bar under the door to take the weight off the hinges.

If the door is triple hinged take out the middle one first. Tap the base of the hinge pin gently using a hammer and pop the pin up using a screwdriver. Close the door to take some of the weight off the hinge. Slide a piece of cardboard under the door to protect the floor then ease the door off the hinges by lifting slightly at the knob with one hand and under one of the hinges with the other hand photo 3.

Simple tool and tips to removing hinge pins on a front door. Leave one screw in the top hinge and remove it last so you can hold the door safely when fully detached from the frame. If this isn t working try ramming the pin up with a few more taps from the hammer. Grady johnson is an act.

Clear the paint from the top of the screw use the tip of a flat blade screwdriver to clear all the paint off the top of the screw heads exposing the slots. For the sake of stability take off the bottom hinge first followed by the top.