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<blockquote data-quote="eyexer" data-source="post: 226123" data-attributes="member: 315"><p>put two or three beads of caulk across the sill before you place the door. The first mistake people make with exterior doors is using a level to make it plumb. For interior doors yes you use one. But exterior doors you have to have the sill solid and siliconed. If your sill isn't level and you plumb the hinge side then you have to raise or lower the latch side to match the latch to the dead bolt bore. To do this you have to raise or lower the sill. Just place the door in the rough opening and center it then screw through the brickmold on each bottom corner to keep it from moving. Then have somebody inside and rack the door left or right to get an equal reveal on the inside all around the door. Once you do that the guy on the outside can screw through the brick mold up in each top corner. But before you screw the top verify the latch bolt is lined up centered in the latch plate opening. Now that you have the door secured go inside and place shims even with the top hole of the hinges. Then replace the screw in each top hole of the hing and screw it in just snugging it up. Takes 3-4" screws so you can get into the framing. Then just shim the latch side right at the latch so that the reveal is identical all along the latch side. Peal the weatherstripping back at the latch shim and place a screw through the frame, shims and into the studs. Then go outside and place a couple more screws evenly placed through the left and right brickmold. Then insulate the inside rough opening gap and trim. easy peasy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eyexer, post: 226123, member: 315"] put two or three beads of caulk across the sill before you place the door. The first mistake people make with exterior doors is using a level to make it plumb. For interior doors yes you use one. But exterior doors you have to have the sill solid and siliconed. If your sill isn't level and you plumb the hinge side then you have to raise or lower the latch side to match the latch to the dead bolt bore. To do this you have to raise or lower the sill. Just place the door in the rough opening and center it then screw through the brickmold on each bottom corner to keep it from moving. Then have somebody inside and rack the door left or right to get an equal reveal on the inside all around the door. Once you do that the guy on the outside can screw through the brick mold up in each top corner. But before you screw the top verify the latch bolt is lined up centered in the latch plate opening. Now that you have the door secured go inside and place shims even with the top hole of the hinges. Then replace the screw in each top hole of the hing and screw it in just snugging it up. Takes 3-4" screws so you can get into the framing. Then just shim the latch side right at the latch so that the reveal is identical all along the latch side. Peal the weatherstripping back at the latch shim and place a screw through the frame, shims and into the studs. Then go outside and place a couple more screws evenly placed through the left and right brickmold. Then insulate the inside rough opening gap and trim. easy peasy [/QUOTE]
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