Door systems and door hardware components

摘要

Methods of installing door systems in an opening. The methods involve racking the door system using a bottom spacer located between a bottom of a door panel and the sill such that the door system is not square with respect to the opening when the bottom ends of latch side and hinge side vertical jambs of the door system are resting on the sill of the opening.

主权项

1. A method of installing a door system including a door panel and a frame in an opening of a building having a sill, wherein the frame comprises a latch side vertical iamb and a hinge side vertical jamb and a header attached to and spanning a top of the latch side vertical jamb and a top of the hinge side vertical jamb, and wherein the door panel comprises a first side edge, a second side edge, a top edge, and a bottom edge, the door panel being hingedly mounted along the first side edge to the hinge side vertical jamb, wherein the method comprises:
positioning the door system within the opening such that a bottom of the latch side vertical jamb and a bottom of the hinge side vertical jamb rest on the sill, and wherein a gap is formed between the header and a top of the opening when the bottom of the latch side vertical jamb and the bottom of the hinge side vertical jamb are resting on the sill; racking the door system in the opening such that the door system is out of square with respect to the opening when the bottom of the latch side vertical jamb and the bottom of the hinge side vertical jamb are resting on the sill, wherein the racking is caused by a bottom spacer attached to the door system and positioned between the bottom edge of the door panel and the sill, wherein the bottom spacer is located closer to the second side edge of the door panel and the latch side vertical jamb than to the first side edge of the door panel and the hinge side vertical jamb such that the bottom edge of door panel at the second side edge is farther from the sill than the bottom edge of the panel at first side edge; attaching the hinge side vertical jamb to the opening while the bottom spacer is located between the bottom edge of the door panel and the sill; and covering the gap after attaching the hinge side vertical jamb to the opening.