1. Simply replace the present hinges with the rising butt hinges . 2. The hinges are called rising butt hinges , which raise the door as it is opened. 3. Windows were hung on butt hinges . 4. Those types of pressed wood boards are not very strong, and the screws of butt hinges tend to pull out. 5. But this might work without cutting the door : Install rising-butt hinges , which raise the door slightly as you open it. 6. The New England Butt Company originally manufactured cast iron butt hinges , but later changed to producing machinery for braiding and stranding wire. 7. The easiest way, I think, is to mount the trap door with solid brass butt hinges , the kind used for front and back doors. 8. And the handyman should have suggested what Jim Naughton of Norwood, Mass . called to suggest : Install rising butt hinges in the door. 9. All doors in the house are raised paneled on the " good " side and flat paneled on the back and are hung on their original butt hinges . 10. But here is an easy way out : Install rising butt hinges on the door; these hinges are set on a cam that raises the door when it is open.
