Wednesday Hanging the Door in the Jamb.

Wednesday. Today we started the day by continuing on with our jambs and doors. It was Michael and my turn to hang the doors after Rhys and Greg had done theirs yesterday. First of we inspected the doors Rhys and Greg had hung yesterday to see how they had gone. Rhys and Greg had somehow managed to install their doors roughly 20mm down from the top of the head when it was supposed to be 2mm, which we all found odd but also helped Michael and myself to look for and ensure that our doors were 2mm down from the header. Also Paul pointed out that the "wind" (whether the two jambs when sited across their lengths vertically, were perfectly parallel with each other or if they differed) was out on their doors as well as the rest of our doors were too. Mine was a significant amount out of wind. I tried by hammering the stiles, to reduce the wind, but only managed to reduce it by half.
I then moved on to positioning the door in the jamb, and to my dismay, found the door didn't fit at all. So then i had to plane it down by about 3mm to get it to fit in place so then i could observe where the door needed to be run down with the planer, to make it fit nice and flush with the stile that was going to have the hinges on it. I managed to plane the door down nice and level along the hinge side and when i placed the door into position it fitted very flush, almost perfect up the entirity of the doors length.
I then placed a 20 cent coin between the top of the door and the head, to give the 2mm spacing requirement, and then wedge the door up. I now had the door flush with the hinge stile and 2mm away from the head. After that I then marked the positions of the top of the hinges on the door and stile with a pencil and tape measure.
When i viewed how in line the other side of the door was in comparison to the other stile, i was pissed to see that the gap went from 10mm at the bottom to 1mm at the top. I measured the width of the door and found that it was 810mm wide at the bottom and fuckn 815mm at the top. After receiving some instruction from Paul, i marked where the gap was 6mm, and then marked in 5mm (because there was already a gap of 1mm at the top) at the top of the door. I used a spirit level to mark a line between the two lines and then gently planed, then belt sanded down the door to the line. Although i understand the door still wouldn't have been perfectly 6mm away from the stile through the entire length of the door, it was still alot closer than it was previously, and was much easier to do other than running the entire door down so it was 810mm wide and then moving the packers out on the stile.
I then began to mark out, with stanley knife, the outline of the hinges where the lines i had drawn previously were. With these lines in place on the door and hinge stile, i then began to chisel out the timber. The pine was so fuckn hard to chisel out neatly and was quite frustrating as i wanted that perfect finish i had seen in the video on Monday but i relaxed and just dealt with the fact that the pine was shit.
Once the door and stile were chiselled out to the spacing and depth of the hinge, i then screwed on the hinges, still joint together by the pins, onto the stile, making sure they were fitting flush with the rebate and then the edge of the stile. This was the easiest part of the entire project. I then placed the door into position next to the stile, and whilst wrestling the door to stay into position by means of maneuvering a wedge with my foot underneath it, holding the hinge perfectly in place and holding the screw with one hand, i used the other hand to screw it together. After completing all three hinges, and closing the door i Paul and discovered that the hinges weren't exactly in position, which made the door not have an even 2mm gap up the side of the hinge stile, which also threw out the nice 2mm gap i had along the top of the door and header.
Although challenging i learnt quite a bit about installing a door into the jamb and how to correct a few problems with making with the door flush and square with the jamb.