hey everybody my name is sam and i'm angela and welcome to our channel as most of you guys know
we are mobile home renovators diy-ers if not check out our channel we have lots of mobile
home diy stuff that's right that's us also we are at our back door right here and i don't know if
any other people out there have this problem but we will be peacefully sitting in the living room
and our two boys will come in and in and out and slam this door where it shakes the whole house
what's wrong with it well there's one of two things either the boys are doing this or we
have a little bit of alignment issues with the door that needs to be tweaked
so we are going to go ahead and do that so hopefully we can relax in our living room without
the whole house being shaken every time the boys go in and out right unless they're doing that
first thing that i did that i'm not doing it again let's go as far as the tools and supplies you need
for this project it's pretty basic if you're a diyer or even if you're not you'll be able to
get this done without really investing too much money in tools and equipment and it's gonna be a
whole lot cheaper than buying a new door first and foremost well okay this is gonna depend on your
mobile home and how it's fastened ours is attached with little hex head screws and for that we have
this really cool nut driver that goes in our drill and you're going to notice that it is red
and yellow it is a two in one tool you're able to pull it apart and flip it over depending on
what size you need in our case red is quarter inch that's what we'll be using i want to show you guys
this because it is a very cool nut driver and tool that we've used for our roof on our mobile home
and for other stuff and is really good quality and they come in different lengths they do short long
so that's what we're going to need to get the door out of the house is simply just screwed in
all around the perimeter once we get it off we're going to clean it up and have some lexel caulk
that seals it back and then we have some special hinges we had to buy for this but you'll see all
of that when we get to it i think someone is ready to rock and roll get it done so let me get out of
the way so she can rip the door out of the house okay remove the door out of the house yeah we
yeah no destruction demolition right we don't repeat of what you did in the dining room window
yeah if you haven't seen that one i'll put a link down below
she literally smashed the window out of the house tried to kill me no gotta try harder
wow
just reach what you can and then i'll get the little miniature scaffolding okay
i want to show you guys the top of the door because this is the best place to really see
how much this has gone out of alignment and sagging of which we're going to show you the
reason once we get the door out of the house but here you can see it is a very pronounced wedge
we have shaped there's even a gap here where we can see inside the house a little bit
so our goal is to straighten this out and fix it all and you know yeah so our goal is obviously to
fix this in addition to making the door closed and open easier but this is a very wow right in your
face obviously something's wrong with the door jam and everything because you know dead giveaway
oh i'm glad my toes were used to be the other way around
so remove the door is a really straightforward process you just take the screws out and then
using a little pry bar or in our case our multi painters tool three inch scraper we just started
to wedge it apart from the house get enough room for your fingers to get there and pull it on out
we went ahead and took the little overhang that goes over the door off we won't need it because
we put on a new roof that has overhang on it you also have to be sure to check there are screws
that go all the way around the door top bottom and sides yes they're everywhere so just keep looking
if it doesn't seem to want to come out double check there are no screws on the inside of your
door holding it in place in our case we didn't have them but we still looked and
checked before we started tearing things apart because the name of the game is easy budget
replacement and repair not tear it apart and go buy a new door now so what we're going to
do next is angela's going to continue prepping the house for the door to be put back in place
well i'll go ahead and start disassembling this door and showing you guys a little more details
on what exactly is wrong and how to fix it okay thanks hon all of the work that we're going to
be doing the repairs and everything of the sort all lie within the frame of the door because with
this door style the hinges are part of the frame they're all together it's not like a traditional
residential door where the hinges screw to both the door and the casing or the door
frame in this style door the hinges are part of the whole aluminum frame and so that means
we've got to take it apart a little bit to replace the innards which is what's gone bad
there you go this piece of wire is the hinge pin this is what runs the entire length of the door
and what holds all those hinges in place now with this out we can show you guys why in the world we
went through all this trouble and what exactly is going on with our door here's a close-up look at
one of our hinges and if i pull this away you can see how on this end there's some remnants
of something that is the plastic bushing that's supposed to keep everything in place nice and
neat and on this side there's absolutely nothing so over time with wear and tear normal use gravity
these little plastic bushings baking in the sun they have vaporized they're no longer in town and
that's what's made our door sag make it difficult to close and cause all of our problems here we
have the original hinges on the door and there is very little sign of any plastic bushings left
here's a new hinge there is very much lots of signs of plastic bushes being left
these bushings are what keep everything operating smoothly allows the hinges to glide
it is obviously the wear point so it's by design and it's also what helps keep that hinge pin
centered to keep everything plumb and where it needs to be inside the frame
so thankfully they still sell and well obviously make these hinges for mobile home doors and we'll
put a link to where i got these down below there are four on our particular door but you may want
to check yours to make sure before you buy them otherwise it's as simple as now that the hinge
pin is out plop them back in place thread the hinge pin back and put this thing back together
here's a look at what i had to use to drive the hinge pin out from the bottom through the top
it's a little screwdriver it's basically you know about the same diameter as a nail or something i
did have to bend the top and bottom of this frame just like you saw me do the top i did the same
thing to the bottom so that i could drive this in and break free the hinge pin because it's been
in there since 1987 or before so i want to show you guys what tool i was using and how i did it
i'll hammer it with a hammer keep the tools simple right
if any of you out there are metal workers you're probably well if you're still here you're crying
um the the abuse is over the metal torture is over
better tools would probably be good some channel locks or some other pair of pliers other than just
needle nose would have been helpful for shaping it easier and better but i still did pretty good hey
looks good it's not as uh not the ugliest thing on the house and that's good enough
either way it is back together and everything's fine so it is now time to put the door on these
brand new hinges and start putting everything back together so we can close the door because we're
just air conditioning the world right now so if you feel a cool breeze it's from us you're welcome
so
so we are going to be using leg cell to
seal this into place it even says that it sticks to wet surfaces so that's pretty awesome we have
used this on all of the windows in our house and we've not had any leaks so good stuff
kids
are you doing i don't know we're done right see you
it closes it does it closes very very easily too you can even just walk up and
push it with your hand
i think we can call that a success nothing closes like butter smooth okay maybe i don't know
it's the best the door's ever closed since we lived here we shouldn't be sitting in the
living room and feel the whole house shake because the boys are wham if we do it'll
be there doing that thing that i did earlier for everyone and it's not the door this time
actually that or we're going to really retrain our kids you don't have to slam the door
just blow on it it closes fine now so there'll be a little bit of a training and learning curve i'm
sure we're going to be involved in that too whoa i forgot it's super smooth i've heard the same
sort of thing with people who have the minivans with the self-opening doors and then their kids
have been trained that they don't have to worry about it and then they get a regular car and they
swam it open and hit other cars in the parking lot see we're the opposite our kids never had that and
whenever we got your minivan and it has it they're just blown away and they just think it's awesome
i can push a button and it opens yep welcome to the future of the early 90s son
your parents are spoiling you just 30 years behind oh well well once again we'll leave the
link to the hinges and any kind of other tools we use for this project down below i would say
overall this is probably a um we'll say 5 out of 10 for diy project you definitely want to pick a
day that you can literally have your house open up to the elements and make sure you got your
stuff ahead of time and just knock it out just get it done you know because you got no choice
your house is open well thanks guys for coming along leave us comment below we'd
love to read them and otherwise we'll see you guys next time on the homestead see you bye
let's go
i'll go back in the house with me splits mute my phone rock and roll okay
i'm gonna look pretty i think that
okay yep um pull this in and or whatever start us out pull us in
oh you can see me hold on ah i can see angela ah angela's here
start us out and then shut up right that's what you're thinking start us out and shut up i'll try
taking the door off his hinges is not a too bad doing this
spontaneous wasn't it all right you can have a turn with the door
that's awesome all right let's get inside where the air condition is okay