How To Install Door Closer Hinges

It takes under a couple minutes with some basic tools.

How to install door closer hinges.

In situations where a door closer is needed such as on exterior doors the only choice used to be the industrial door closers that attached to the door and the door jamb. Internal spring with adjustable tension swings door closed quietly smoothly works. The hinge pin door closer can turn almost any door into an automatic self closing door. The hinge pin closer works efficiently without being obvious.

Step 1 remove the old hinge. Decide with hinge bottom middle or top you ll want your hinge pin door closer attached to. Rotate the sweep adjuster to slow the closing speed to about five seconds it will prevent the door from bumping you in the rear as you exit. I ll bet that you never knew you could adjust a self closing door hing.

While these closers functioned well they looked a bit out of place in a residential setting which led to the development of hing pin door closers. All you need to do is replace the existing hinge pin with our door closer hinge pin. Then turn the latch adjuster to get a quick one second final swing to latch the door. For you to close a door automatically using this closer you will no long need to use the older unattractive standard door closer.

Screw the spring hinges to the door so that the slotted section on each hinge is on top.