What's up everyone? Welcome to The Durbin Compound! If we're meeting for the first time,
my name is Devin Durbin. I'm here to bring you the tools, tips, and tricks to make you more self-sufficient.
Now whether you're drilling a hole in your door for a new deadbolt, you want to put in a fancy electronic lock,
or you're just replacing a door and you have a slab with no hole in it for your knob,
well, you found the right video because I'm going to teach you here today. So, DEWALT sells this
awesome jig that is for cutting holes for deadbolts and, you know, your entry hardware
that can be used on any door. So I'm going to teach you guys how to set it up. I'm going to teach you
how to measure it off an existing door. If you have another template--a deadbolt--that you want to put
on a door, it will most likely have all of the dimensions needed to align it with another hole,
so that you can properly put this jig on the door at the right place. So there are going to
be multiple things that should help you out. Having this kit with the hole saws...I'll put a link in the
description below where you can get it. They're sold at Lowe's and Home Depot. You can pick one
up for cheap and it makes you successful for the project. Now, you'll obviously have it for
projects in the future. Another thing that you might want to pick up if you don't have already
is a set of wood chisels. So, wood chisels can be fairly cheap. And just get you a set for mortising in
or recessing the striker plate on your door. A hammer will be needed for the project.
And obviously an electric drill to drive your hole saws. So, it's a fairly easy and straightforward
project I'm going to show you here today. Let's get going!
All right! So we're over here at our door.
If you have an existing measurement that you know--like this previous door that came out of here--and
you're doing a replacement, you need to measure to the center of the hole. So, if you do a standard 2 & 1/8
hole saw here, if your hole is 2 & 1/8 and you have this little DEWALT kit
and you measure it and it's 2 && 1/8 here as a hole, well measure it to the edge of the hole,
and then add an 1 & 1/16" in order to get that 2 & 1/ 8.
So, let's go ahead and measure to the top of our hole which is right at 43. So 44 & 1/16 is
where we're going to mark the center of the hole on the new door. So we're going to go over here
and we're literally just going to make a rough mark here at 44 & 1/16. Okay?
All right! So now we need to measure from the edge of the door. I'll show you an up close of what I just did.
We measured 43 and then 1 & 1/16" will get me to the center line of that hole.
And then 1 & 1/16" will get me to the edge of the other side of the hole. Okay?
So same concept here, going this way. So, we have our 1" mark here
and then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/16. So 1 & 5/16". Now we add 1 & 1/16.
So 2 & 6/16". So 2 & 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 which lands us right on 2 & 3/8". Okay?
Now we'll go over to our other door here.
All right, now we'll go over here to 2 & 3/8. Go ahead and mark it there. Okay, so it's giving us a
vertical line here. Now we're going to re-measure this other line to ensure that we have
a good hole here. 44 & 1/16th just like we had said. Okay, so now that we have our DEWALT
jig over here, you can see here in the back of this piece it's marked 2 && 3/8.
I hope you can see that well on camera. There's a little piece of wood chip in here. Let's get that
out of the way. Okay? You see it says 2 & 3/8. That means that this hole is centered
to be 2 & 3/8 from the edge of the door. So, that's perfectly right where we want it.
Now, we had talked about putting that line over on the edge of the door so that we can
properly align it. See that there? Okay, so what we need to do is we need to make a mark at 44 & 1/16
over here on the edge of the door, so we can properly align the tool. So 44 & 1/16 we're
going to go ahead and make a light notch there. And then we are going to align our jig
directly on that line. And we're going to tighten it down. So now we have properly lined it up
and tightened it down to drill our main hole here. Now, I'm going to go ahead and
drill this hole. And then I'm going to show you how to measure and align the other side.
Now, before you get all the way through the door here, I highly recommend that once you've
broken through on the other side that you go ahead and start cutting it from the other side.
You don't want it to blow out on the other side once you get your hole through here.
You don't want it to just blow out on the other side. So what we're going to do is turn the door around.
We've already gotten through with our pilot hole here. The pilot bit has already gotten
all the way through the door. So we're going to turn it around and we're going to drill from the back side
for a nice clean finish. Okay, so you see the hole that's already punched through here a little bit?
This is an extra step, but just for a nice fit and finish, we want to make sure that our door comes
out awesome here. We're going to mark 44 & 1/16 over here, so that we can align our tool on
this side absolutely precise. And then we are going to drill the rest of this through on the opposite side.
This will give us a nice, clean finish on both sides where we don't have any blowout.
And that's important for just a nice looking door finish. Most of this is going to be covered up by the
excussion that goes on the doorknob. But in any case I like a nice, clean finish.
Okay, so what we're left with is a nice, clean plug that's removed. And once we remove our jig here...
a nice, clean cut. All right, so the next order of business is to drill our hole through the edge of the door.
So now I'm going to show you how to drill through the edge of the door.
Okay, this step is fairly simple here. All you need to do is measure how thick the door is.
So, if you're looking at your tape measure here, we are at 1 & 3/8 thick, okay?
Or just under 1 & 3/8. So what we want to do is...this is another
cheater piece here that literally you just rotate and..Hold on! Let's pop it out and rotate it here.
You'll have to loosen this up in order to pop this out and rotate it.
So now we are looking at 1 & 3/4. Okay? 1 & 3/8. Okay?
So our old door was 1 & 3/8 or 1 & 3/4 thick. And our new door is 1 & 3/8 thick.
So, we're going to go ahead and pop this plug back in at 1 & 3/8.
Boom! It's in place. It's ready to go. Now we put it right back on our door
where the mark was at 44 & 1/16, or whatever door, or whatever measurement, you made on the door.
Now, all we need to do is change over the hole saw from the 2 & 1/8 over to the small 25mm.
So let's go ahead and change them over. All right, now that we've changed this over,
let's go ahead and slide it in the hole here. And we're going to drill straight in the door.
All right, once we've got our hole drilled, go ahead and remove the jig and...Boom! There we have it!
Now let's show you guys how to mortise the little cutout here for the latch or the striker.
All right, how I've always been taught to do it is hold it up here.
There's going to be a little bit of slop in it. If there is slop and you do have a smaller striker
than you do hole, there's usually always a little plastic bushing
that slips into the door. So what you can do is you can slide this into place, and then slide
your striker through, and then let's go ahead and seat this. And then we're going to draw
our box around the striker plate. Now this is where if you have a router
it's really easy to make this recess piece here. You just want to make sure you keep it lined up,
and you get it marked well because you're either going to be chiseling this out
or you're going to be routing it out. You want it to be fairly accurate. So, just ensure that you keep it
stood up straight. And mark it to the best of your ability. Now if it comes out a little goofy,
well, you can go back and you can, you know, do a little artwork there and trim it up.
All right! So now we're going to go ahead and we'll pull our plastic piece back out here...if we can.
We might just push it further in so that we can route around it.
Let's go ahead and route it. Okay! This is the point in the project where
you would usually just take a chisel and notch this out for the depth of the striker,
but I'm going to cheat and use a router set to the correct depth. And another test fit for the correct size.
Boom! Fits flush. I like it! Let's go ahead and mark it for our holes here. Drill our holes.
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