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I usually do it the other way around. Once you can get the blank in the frame, situate the hinges on the door edge and use a crowbar or pry to lift the door until you can mark the hinge positions on the frame edge. Then remove the hinges and use them as a template for your pilot holes. Now put them back on the door edge, line the door up with the frame, use a crowbar or pry to lift it (by standing on it). Fix the hinge to the frame edge.
This works better if your hinges are recessed in the door edge at least because you otherwise need the door + full width of the hinge to fit in the frame opening.
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@Airhead has given you great advice - not much I can add (plus I'm late).
The advice I gave to senior bear about marking the door and frame is good for when your hanging many doors in timber frames (liners if I'm being pedantic). Because it helps you break the job down into parts and get a bit of a production line going. So: cut all doors to size, put all doors in frames and mark hinges, chop in hinges, swing doors and finally install locks and other iron mongery. I'll be doing that for weeks fairly soon as I've just taken a job installing all the fire doors for a new care home. Weeks of hanging doors with a 2mm tolerance on the gap, I can't wait #sarcasm
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Door hanging question time again!
(Which basically means "help me, @Bobbo, I don't know what I'm doing, in spite of your really useful post")
I'm hanging a solid core blank fire door in a steel frame.
The frame is plumb. ish. To the extent that I can't change anything about it anyway.
The door is big & heavy, even when I cut it down to size - I'll probably be screwing handles onto it to make it easier to move around.
I'm planning on following Bobbo's guide, except I am probably not going to bother recessing the hinges in the door (and definitely not in the steel).
My question is - at what point should I drill the frame? I'll be using Tek screws, which I could drive straight through, although a small guide hole would help with accuracy.
Should I attach the hinges to the door, then find a way to support it so that the frame is lined up?