My upstairs bathroom door would squeak like an old haunted house door every time you closed it. I pulled the hinge pins out, cleaned them off and gave them a light coat of WD 40 before replacing them. NOW the door won't stay open. It closes by itself. Obviously it's not plumb, so how do I repair this without major repair work? The house is a little over a year old.

 

Try taking out the top pin, put it in a vise and lightly tap it with a hammer to very slightly bend the hinge pin, then replace it in the hinge, the deformed hinge pin will often times be enough to keep the door from "ghosting" shut, yet won't interfere with normal closing.

 

Your door wasn't installed exactly square and plumb. Before you lubed the hinges, there was enough friction to hold it in place, now there's not. Take the hinge pins out (one at a time) and wipe off the lube and you might return enough friction to the hinges to hold the door again.

 

Got it to stay open and here's what I did. I tried wiping down the pins and the insides of the hinges to remove as much of the lube I used and that didn't work. Pulled the top pin and lightly "tapped" it in the vise and that didn't work. Probably didn't "tap" it hard enough. So my next thing was I closed the door and took a look on the hinge side at how it was hung. It was in at the bottom by maybe 1/16 to an 1/8 inch. Pulled the screws out from the wall side of the hinge and slid a Starbucks coffee stir stick between the top and bottom screws. Replaced the screws and now the door hangs just fine and stays open. I did have to remove a small plastic piece from where the latch catches. The door was hitting it. Once I did that the door was fine. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

The whole problem was that the door wasn't installed square and plumb and you fixed it. Nice job.

 

I know this is an old thread, but wanted to add my $0.02. I tried the bent pin trick mentioned here and it worked perfectly. I was aggressive with the bend - approximately 5 degrees - 2 "ghosting" doors fixed in 5 minutes! One door which was really bad - would swing close completely from wide open with 1-2 seconds - needed 2 bent pins, but the solution still worked.