Looking for suggestions to hang a screen door

rst · Friday at 8:30 PM

ROTON 780-110, $93.45 from Door Closer.com best price out there, don't know about shipping. I used to buy these for $60 some $ from Mayflower Sales pre covid as a commercial account.

luvmytoolz · Friday at 9:29 PM

Cheese said:
luvmytoolz said:
You could also just get some hole-less butt hinges and drill where you want the holes?

4nthony said:
That's actually not a bad idea. I could even try and cut down the leaf on a larger hinge to fit the smaller door.

Just a heads-up...if the hole-less hinge is stainless, be careful of work hardening the metal when drilling the new holes.

Or use a standard HSS drill with 5% cobalt, sets with cobalt are probably double the cost of a standard HSS set, but individual drills would be very cheap. Then it's just like drilling ferrous iron.

Peter Kelly · 2025-07-26T08:36:28-0400

4nthony said:
As much as I hate to do it, I think I'm just going to grab some smaller butt hinges, install a partial jamb on the hinge side (I've already got the piece milled up and waiting), trim the door to accommodate the extra width of the jamb, and mount it.

I think we're going to need to see some photos of the results posted after all that.

Packard · 2025-07-26T10:08:28-0400

I suspect that none of the options will work as well as the one designed for screen doors—the one at the outset you said you did not want to use. While most are black or white powder-coated, there are a few variations that you might find less objectionable.

The risk of pursuing this as you are, is that you find something that “works”, but really just hobbles along until it fails.

At any rate, take another look and see if there is a variation that you can live with:

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4nthony · 2025-07-26T11:10:03-0400

Packard said:
I suspect that none of the options will work as well as the one designed for screen doors—the one at the outset you said you did not want to use. While most are black or white powder-coated, there are a few variations that you might find less objectionable.

The risk of pursuing this as you are, is that you find something that “works”, but really just hobbles along until it fails.

At any rate, take another look and see if there is a variation that you can live with:

I don't want surface mount as I'm not a fan of the way they look. As for the majority of butt hinges, they'll hit very near to the seam in the jamb/stucco and I also want to avoid drilling there. The other options I've been exploring are just ways around the hole locations.

I'm not averse to butt hinges. Roton hinges look great, but again, not sure they'll avoid the seam as I didn't see offset leafs.

The search continues