On 6/7/2012 11:21 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
chaniarts wrote:
On 6/7/2012 10:16 AM, Steve Turner wrote:

Found a local shop that does this work - they remove your door to
their shop for 7-10
days, and install a temporary door by screwing it to the door jam.


Call me dense, but it's not really a temporary "door" if it's
screwed to the jamb, is it? I guess in order to get in and out of
the house you have to use an alternate door for that 7-10 days?
Wouldn't it be possible for them to hang a temporary door off the
existing hinges along with your handle and lock hardware so you
could actually *use* the thing, and so that you wouldn't have to
repair any damage to the jamb afterwords? Doesn't seem that
difficult to me...

don't you have to mortise the hinges into the jamb for the door to
actually work? it's just not a matter of filling a few screw holes in
that case.

it's a temp door. why not leave the hinges in the jamb and mortise the
temp door to accept the existing hinges. that way, the jamb doesn't
have to change. the shop may have to occasionally by a temp door when
the one they're using gets torn up too much from different houses.

I would have thought that's exactly what they would do. Nothing in the
original post that I saw, which would suggest otherwise.


OP: While that may be a secure way to install the door - am not
receptive to having 6 screw holes left in the door frame.

this sort of implies that he'll have NEW holes that he has to fill,
which sort of implies that no, they're not using the existing hinge
mortices.