For exterior solid doors I have always seen 3 hinges. But what about interior doors? In particular those 6 panel masonite doors. These are heavier than the regular hollow doors but not by much. My house's doors all have 2 hinges, but when I look at other people's houses I see three. Any differences in the size of the door? For example 2.5 feet width is 2 hinges but 3 feet gets 3 hinges?
How many hinges for door ?
Jan 12, 2004
6 Replies
Heavy doors need 3. You can get away with 2 on interior doors. If the interior door is heavier than usual just upgrade the hinge to a heavier size.
Rich
Some have three, others two. A heavier or larger door would have three or two heavy-duty hinges. The middle hinge carries the least force, and is the least important.
All my inside doors, which are hollow core doors, have 2 hinges. I'm in the process of replacing my solid core garage side-entry door which has 3 hinges.
"Ron" wrote in news:vcIMb.3468$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com:
I just installed 4 of the 6 panel masonite doors. They seemed about twice as heavy as one of the cheap hollow-core doors I was replacing and about as heavy as the older (& nicer) hollow-core doors.
Anyway, with 3 kids I was afraid of flex from running into the doors etc, so I used 3 hinges. The information on the back of the package indicated
3 hinges as well, but that could just be to increase sales.NJBrad
I also noticed that in Home Depot, the prehung masonite doors come with three hinges.
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