My bathroom door doesn't fit into the hole to lock because it's misaligned. I am not sure how to fix it. Will I be able to adjust the height with the hinge adjustment? Please refer to the attached images for further details
Close the door even if it doesn't latch. Look at the gap around the door frame. If you see uneven, pie shaped gaps it usually means the hinge screws have come loose or are pulling out. I remove a screw or two from the top hinge where it goes into the wall. Then I install 3"+ long screws to go into the house's framing. Then as you tighten those screws it pulls the door back up into position so the latch aligns with the strike plate.
Agreed- in the third picture the dark horizontal wear marks (lines) suggest the striker plate is too high by maybe 3 cm.
To fix it you'd need to remove the two screws holding the striker plate and reposition the striker. Easy enough, but to move the striker you may also need to...
- remove wood from the door frame so the striker plate sits flat. You can do this (carefully) with a chisel and a hammer;
- remove wood from the frame behind the striker. This provides a pocket for the spring-loaded door latch to extend into and hold the door closed. You can do this (carefully ) with a chisel too, or maybe a drill with a largish bit or forstner bit;
- sand and paint, which may also include filling the empty screw holes.
You got this! Good luck, and let us know how it goes.
If you want to elongate or extend the hole in the strike plate lower a flat file can work. This can be done with the strike plate still in the jamb cut it takes a lot of tiny, little short strokes. Removing the strike plate and holding it in a vice makes filing much faster & easier. If you have a Dremel tool it's pretty easy to use a grinding bit to open the hole. Then you can use a file to square off the corner if needed.
My exterior doors have what looks like plastic window grills on them that the previous owners took the middle crossing bars out leaving the frame with gaps. I would like to somehow fill it with the intention of painting the whole frame afterwards any suggestions?
Door from kitchen to garage, opens in towards the garage. Husband is relegated to smoke his pipe in the garage. (He is good about it, has a lounge chair he's very comfortable.) When I open the door into the garage I almost hit him if he is coming into the kitchen at the same time. I am usually able to bang on the door before I open it, but sometimes my hands are full. (Washer and dryer are in the garage.) I can kick the door with my shoe, but was leaving black marks on the paint.
Is there an easy peasy solution? Hang some bells? I can't visualize how to hang bells so that the door brushes against them as it opens yet they won't be in the way when the door closes? I'd need the bell to make a noise as soon as the door starts to open, not after it's opened five inches so so.
I try to open the door slowly and carefully, but of course the one time I don't is the one time I almost hit him.
Either I'm too stupid for my door, or I'm stumped!
01-27-22, 01:44 AM
