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PlexiDor Dog Door Household Door Installation Guide In this video, we’ll walk you through the straightforward process of installing a PlexiDor Dog Door into a standard household door. We’ll cover everything from preparing your door to the final steps of fitting the dog door securely. What You’ll Learn: Preparation: How to measure and mark the installation area. Cutting: Tips for accurately cutting the door to fit the PlexiDor. Installation: Step-by-step instructions for mounting the dog door. Sealing: Ensuring a snug and weather-tight fit. No frills, just a clear, concise guide to getting your PlexiDor installed quickly and correctly. Whether you're a DIY enthusiast or a first-timer, this video will make the process easy to follow. Enjoy the convenience of a PlexiDor Dog Door for your furry friends! Watch now to get started!
Video Transcript
- 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:28:18 PlexiDor Guide: Hi. We're here with Jim Williams, our point person in Florida on installations. It's Jim. How are we doing today? We're doing just fine today, Joe. And tell me, what's a perfect installation? A perfect installation is you want to measure measure twice, and you want to cut once. Just make sure you measurements are good. The doors are self framing, too.
- 00:00:28:19 - 00:00:50:22 PlexiDor Guide: There's no painting about in the installation itself. Okay, so let's get on to doing one through a door to go through a door. Need some basic tools a jigsaw, a drill, ten snaps, a square and the proper blades for cutting through the material. You going through. First thing you want to do is check your location. You want to make sure the door doesn't fall and any dips in a panel door.
- 00:00:50:22 - 00:01:10:11 PlexiDor Guide: You try to keep that door in the flat areas of the panel door. Once you've got your location, you can take your template and tape it in place. We use a lot of blue tape because it won't pull up any paint. And some of these holes you're going to drill through go all the way through, and some only go halfway through the door and they're marked ABC.
- 00:01:10:11 - 00:01:36:22 PlexiDor Guide: It's all on the template here. Jim is center punching it. So we hit the point.
- 00:01:37:00 - 00:01:54:07 PlexiDor Guide: As he's using the drill, he's using eighth inch to go all the way through the door to mark locations to get some. Go all the way through. Some don't. Then we finish him out with a unit bit. It goes through the door at various depths. Making a nice clean hole makes the job really easy. And now we've marked all of our holes with the agents.
- 00:01:54:08 - 00:02:05:13 PlexiDor Guide: Drill bit can take up the template and start drilling the larger holes to take care of the jigsaw blade.
- 00:02:05:15 - 00:02:30:01 PlexiDor Guide: Notice how the fit doesn't care if the metal or pull as it goes through the door.
- 00:02:30:03 - 00:02:45:00 PlexiDor Guide: But to clean up the area for the shop back so no metal shavings will scratch your paint and cause extra work for you. Then you can flip it over and finish up just the holes to go all the way through.
- 00:02:45:02 - 00:03:02:13 PlexiDor Guide: Okay, we mark across the top of the holes. This is on the template. You can see the cut lines on the template for reference, but we mark across the top of the holes of the top, down the sides and the bottom. We go right down the middle of the holes. Then we tape off the area of the door that's going to remain with blue tape, so we don't scratch it.
- 00:03:03:08 - 00:03:10:09 PlexiDor Guide: the jigsaw does have some vibration. That vibration will scratch the doors.
- 00:03:10:11 - 00:03:35:02 PlexiDor Guide: Right. And as you notice, when we make the cut hole for this, we do notch it out towards the top on both sides. The right in the left just on the top. That's the accommodate the spring kit that we have here, which extends a little past the frame, which that what that allows you to do. Slide your door in here easily.
- 00:03:35:04 - 00:03:57:11 PlexiDor Guide: And you should have all your notches for your holes. These go on straight through so you can screw the exterior frame to it. And these are for a steel security plate that exterior frame it's got two sides to it, one that's a rounded edge, and the other side which is a flat edge. The flat edge goes against the plex door to trim it out just perfectly so you can't see anything.
- 00:03:57:13 - 00:04:23:14 PlexiDor Guide: And right now Jim is taking his interior screws matching up and sandwiching that frame to hold the pet door in place. Once the side pieces are on, it's actually in place. He's flipping it over and he just good amount the trim pieces for the top and the bottom. These are not holding in the Pet or they just trim it out, give a nice finished look.
- 00:04:23:16 - 00:04:40:00 PlexiDor Guide: Why don't you put on the top gutter. You can take a piece of cork if you have to and slide it across the top if required. There's a finished installation in a household door.
