- Hey everybody, Jeff here again,
welcome back to the channel.
Today we have another great video for you.
And I know why you're here.
You're here because your front door is doing this.
It's stuck, it's out of alignment and it's stuck.
So today we're gonna show you how to root cause
this kind of problem when your front door is stuck
and it's not moving, it's frozen in place,
and we're gonna show you how to fix it,
and we'll be done in a jiffy.
It's a very simple repair, so let's get started.
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Okay, so right off the bat,
if you're looking at the door when it's closed here,
you see that thin line there?
That reveal line is too thin,
it's supposed to be about an eighth of an inch
on a properly centered door,
so if you look at the top of the door,
that's more of the space that you're looking for.
And when you look at the upper-right hand of the door,
the hinge there, it's okay,
it could probably come in a little bit to the right here,
closer to the frame.
But look as you go down to the bottom,
it gets closer and closer and closer and closer,
all the way so that it's almost touching down there, see?
And that's the problem.
So this door is out of square.
It just needs to, the whole door
needs to rotate a little bit like this,
and that usually just means
the problem is in your upper hinge.
And likewise, it's also scraping this side
of the stationary door,
because that door, look at that giant gap there.
He's leaning too far this way.
So he also needs to get tightened in this way,
'cause look at his reveal line,
it's coming down and down and down and getting a lot closer
to where it should be as you go down to the bottom here.
So, both doors here need a slight adjustment,
and that's what we're going to do today.
Okay, we try the simple fixes first.
So you can see these two screws are already loose,
and they're kind of popped out a little?
They shouldn't be like that.
But look at this as we move the door,
look at that hinge, see how it's moving like that?
See that movement?
Look at that bottom screw moving.
It should not be doing that.
So first thing we're going to do is tighten all the screws
and make sure they look good.
Oops, sorry.
Tight, get it so it's tightened.
Alright, so the top and that bottom one there
aren't going to tighten because they were put in
with a plastic anchor.
So I guess a repair may have been made
at some point in the past,
and the screws weren't holding,
so they tried putting in plastic anchor.
(drill spins)
Alright, so here's the door, we're testing it now here, see.
And now it closes, it's not quite at the distance
we want it to be, but at least it's closing
without scraping against here.
So you can see that just doing that simple
screwing in and tightening the screws on the hinges alone
on this right door, the right-side door here,
that was enough to at least get it
so that now the door closes smoothly
without any issues whatsoever, see that?
But we still wanna make it perfect,
'cause this could still come back out of alignment,
so now we're gonna work on this side of the door.
Went out here, is that where the hinge
would anchor into the wall here,
this is not concrete block.
This looks like it might be, y'know, this is over here,
but I think the concrete block ends over here,
and this is just a wood box out.
And so what makes this different is we won't be using
the blue Tapcons going into concrete,
because this is all wood here.
Alright, so we'll put a link down in the description below
to our other video where we did these French doors.
Very similar action here, where we had to fix the reveal
going around the door here,
and on that particular video,
there we used blue Tapcons that went straight through,
four inch screws that we used
to go through the jamb of the door,
and past the buckplate that's inside the wall here,
and all the way through into the concrete wall
on that set of French doors.
So, you'll enjoy that video too.
So here we're probably going to just be using our two inch
Deck Mate screws.
Okay, so these are the screws we're going to put back in,
because the screws that were in there
are usually half inch screws on those hinges.
So I'm using these two inch, these are Deck Mate,
and I love these.
These are coated, and they have a star drive,
which I prefer over Phillips-head,
I can't stand Phillips-head,
'cause they always strip out on ya.
And it comes with the star bit here.
So these will never, ever strip out on you
when you're trying to run these screws in.
So these are a little thicker
than the screws we're pulling out,
and you can see, they're kind of self-tapping,
and we'll run these in and see how well it does.
(mallet taps chisel)
Okay, so we're just chiseling out
about a sixteenth of an inch, no more.
(mallet taps chisel)
(chisel scrapes wall)
(screwdriver spins)
Okay, so there's our four Deck Mate screws are in there now.
As part of this front door repair.
So in the end, this is really all we had to do
on this particular side here,
was to just add four brand new
of these two inch Deck Mate screws here,
and the reason why we like to use these
is because they're coated,
and they're made for being used outside on decks,
and of course, the star bit here.
But, so this was enough to push this guy in
far enough after we chiseled it.
We also made this mortise a little deeper,
so that enables this part of this door
to go over a little bit, to open up the space.
And all we did with the rest of these,
we didn't change the screws any,
all we had to do was tighten them down.
So I'm a fan of not changing
any of the other screws unless they really have to be,
unless there was something really loose here,
or on the door, but everything's fine,
and...
Looked like the only problem was this one here,
like the mortise was originally just not made deep enough.
Now let's test our door.
So you can see we have a marked improvement there
up on the top, we have a nice,
even eighth of an inch reveal
that looks pretty even most of the way
down the front door here.
So it looks like this repair is done.
So now as we scan the reveal line,
all the way around the door,
it looks nice and even now here,
and going across the top it looks even,
and coming down the space between the two doors,
it looks nice and even there as well.
And that's the way it should look,
that's why it's so important to have your doors
nice and square, plumb.
Everything has to be perfect,
because these reveal lines, as you look here,
you can see, they're only an eighth of an inch or so.
So you don't have much room to play with.
If you have something that's a sixteenth
of an inch off somewhere, then it's really gonna be off
some place else, too.
So that's why it's so important
that this is your goal is to get these reveal lines even,
and a lot of times, your root causes
is gonna end up being because
the hinges aren't in all the way,
or the mortise wasn't cut deep enough for the hinge,
and something is keeping the doors from being attached
all the way properly.