Building a shed door?
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A. Ensure that you build things square, level, and choose your materials well. The only ones excused are the truly inept, the unable, and dumb trainees.
Place (tack) two or three 1/8 thick spacers on your hinge jamb. Check them for plumb. Make sure! Place two or three 1/2 spacers across the opening. Check them for level. Make sure! Do anything necessary to ensure both sets of spacers are in position.
Slap the door in the opening on top of the bottom spacers. Butt it to the jamb spacers. It’s plumb in one direction. It needs to be plumb along the narrow face of jamb and style also (90 degrees to the spaces on the jamb). If you built the opening and the doors plumb & level you should be able to pull both faces into alignment, and when checked with a level they should be plumb. If not move them plumb (keeping face alignment). Use clamps or screws to affix the door and jamb temporarily.
Apply the hinges across the narrow faces of the style & jamb.
If you’ve done everything correctly to this point a square placed across any position on the faces is the equivalent of having plumbed the door with the hinges attached. Find the mid point of the door (top to bottom) Place the square there. Set a hinge on the square. Center the hinge pin in the clearance area created by the jamb spacers. Run you level along the barrel of the hinge. Make sure it’s plumb. Affix the hinge.
Position upper and lower hinges 7 to 8 inches from upper & lower edges. Use the same method, but add a check with your level between two hinge barrels. Remove clamps or screws and spacers.
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