[lebeaupainting]

That's what I thought as well, my SW store gve me 12 to try and I was impressed so I bought a bunch more. I tried to upload a picture but for some reason I am still having issues uploading. I will try my phone see if that will upload.

We've been using hinge mask for about 10 years now and it really does work, saves us hours each home. They're a well kept secret it seems.

 

[lebeaupainting]

So does everyone who uses these leave open gaps in your caulk lines behind the hinges on the door casings?

Seems like some good old hackery to me.

We leave the gap un-caulked, it can be a tight fit sometimes on the door frame, not on the door hinges though. For us we mostly spray the doors and brush the frames, when the job is right we spray the frames too though.

 

[lebeaupainting]

Here is how I do it:


1. Set up saw horses.
2. Carefully remove hinge pins from hinges and place door flat on saw horses without letting the bottom touch the floor and blow out an edge.
3. Cut two small shoes and attach to bottom edge of door.
4. Remove all remaining hinges and hardware from door and jamb.
5. Prep and paint door/jamb/casing.
6. Reattach hinges and hardware.
7. Remove shoes and rehang door with hinge pins.
8. Bask in the satisfaction of knowing I did the job to the best of my abilities.

Edit: I was going to go a lot more in depth into all of steps, but lost interest at #5.

Just curious, are you spraying your doors or brushing, couldn't quite tell from your post. Are you mostly repaint?

 

[lebeaupainting]

nah nah, we don't play around with the hinges and tape stuff. If you have to spray in place that's one issue, the butterfly cover/magnet thing is good, but take the door off and use the type we get all the time. I buy 30, 40 at a time to do all the doors in the house in 1 shot.

I'll post pics of them tomorrow morning, cold outside and I don't feel like digging in the truck in the dark. Pics to come tomorrow, these things are lifesavers, save you all some time and money.

Just looking through the thread and was wondering what the product you are using? I guess you never got around to uploading the picture.

 

[lebeaupainting]

I've expiremented with covering/taping hinges. I prefer to take the hinges completely off in most cases. Certainly with hollow core doors. Heavy wood doors, I might consider leaving them up, probably not even then.

Same with strike plates on casings. New or repaint I take them off and paint inside the holes.

A lot of people like to pull the pins instead of taking the screws out for ease of take down/hanging....(carpet layers :jester: ) but then you still have half a hinge in your way on the door and the casing. You can take these off individually but that's just another step, and more pieces of hardware to deal with.

Even with 24 screws on a average door, its still faster for me to just take the hinges out of the equation right off the bat, to get the results I'm looking for.

Hanging by screwing the hinge to the casing isn't so bad once you get the hang of it. I can do hollow cores by myself easy, with a shim or the tip of my shoe.

We take the doors off too. But instead of removing the hinges we use Hinge Mask, it saves time and you don't have to worry about the door hinge being damaged or the door not being set right.