Hello to all,
I am builder in southern MN and have been for about 17 years. I am always interseted in new techniques. Believe it or not I love the challenge of building here in our extreme weather conditions. I recently had a call back on a house we built a year and a half ago. The home owner is wondering if I can adujust a couple of interior doors so that they stay all the way open. Both doors when opened all the way swing back about a foot. I know the problem is the wall is slightly out of plumb. I am hoping someone has a clever idea on how I can cure this problem without rehanging the door or using wedge to hold open the door. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks joe
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Bend the hinge pin a little, but keep it lubed.
Tried that, But didn't seem to help much. joe
Insert the bent pin in another orientation..Try bending another hinge pin...try bending the third hinge pin<G> "But to be honest some folks here have been pushing the envelope quite a bit with their unnecessary use if swear words. They just put a character in to replace a letter. But everyone knows what they're saying." Sancho
You didn't bend the pin enough.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
It's comforting to see a real world suggestion without some taking a crap all over it ; )
A little touchy about our shower pan, are we?
Hey, I'm in the jury pool waiting room, and anyway it's 6 degrees outside without the 30mph wind chill....whats your excuse ;-)
Not at all - I've been around here long enough to see a lot of things carpenters do every day poo poo - ed. Like springing the hinge. The shower pan is not my problem and I'm not sweating it. I'm just trying to give the client some real world suggestions. I may be wrong. If he has to go through the same thing in a couple a months he may want to rip out and re-do. Plus he has the link to this thread, so all of everyones advice is being seen by him.
Come on guys. How much will it take to re-hang that door properly once and for all.
A little "service time" will go a long way and maybe will bring you more customers.
funny
Yeah, next thing the HO will call you back because he cannot get the pins out. Another "waste" of time!
I say this in seriousness and fun. If you haven't tweaked a door by moving a hinge or bending a pin or springing a leaf, you will.
If the wall's not plumb, rehanging the door doesn't do a lot of good unless you hang it wompus and shim out the trim.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes it works by giving just alittle more friction. Depends which way the door "leans" some times moving the top hinge either in or out will cause the door to swing to where you want it to stay.
Hey thanks for the ideas. I failed to mention that my hinges are ball bearing. My local lumber yard called up the supplier today and explained the situation. They said they been having a lot of calls on this subject. There suggetion was to use the old style hinge on my problem doors. These ball bearing hinges are great but if you don't have the door perfect they move rather easily. If all else fails I 'm just going to rehang the doors.
We use a lot of ball bearing hinges, especially on solid core doors. Got a call back once that a door wouldn't stay put. HO wanted it to stay slightly open so a cat could crap in their closet...okaaay.Turned out a nearby window was open, and didn't take much of a breeze to move the door<G>Oh yeah, you can bend the pins on ball bearing hinges...course that's advice coming from an old hack that does this stuff for a living<G>...you could reframe the house, too...it's a bitch living on a round planet LOL "But to be honest some folks here have been pushing the envelope quite a bit with their unnecessary use if swear words. They just put a character in to replace a letter. But everyone knows what they're saying." Sancho
Joe,
Are you positive that the problem is an out-of-plumb door? It might just be the hinges binding or "bottoming out".
I was able to cure the problem with the new hinges. Thanks
Have you tried re-setting the hinges a bit? By moving a hinge in or out, you should be able to eliminate those doors moving on their own , if the wall isn't too much out of plumb.
You might have to re-set the stops doing this.
No, But I'll consider trying it thanks