1. We had a door that we wanted to keep closed, and not having any suitable ready-made device at hand, we made one from a spring rattrap. Saw off the bait end of the trap and screw the remaining part to the door casing. Protect the adjacent surface with a piece of tin. "This door closer works...

In 2015 I built a barn, 24 ft by 40 ft, on my off-grid property. It's more-or-less pole-building style, my own design. I felled timber on the property, milled all my own lumber, dried it for three years before raising the barn, with sheet metal roof and sheet metal siding. I didn't build...

Hi! I'm new to the forum and am hoping this very knowledgeable community might have the solution to a hinge problem. I need to increase the tension on a cabinet hinge. It's a free-swinging overlay hinge and it's being used horizontally to hold up a door on a play kitchen (so it opens like a...

I have windows that are hinged and they have a bottom sash that can be opened outwards or inwards. There was heavy rain/wind and 2 of the windows slowly seeped water thru below the window. And both leak the same way. Is there an easy way to fix this or could it possibly be a larger underlying...

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Hi all, I have a cabinet door with a broken hinge. Searched high and low on the web for a matching one, but no luck. Thought maybe one of the good folks here might be able to help. It's a hinge (see attached photo) mortised into both parts of an articulating cabinet door in a corner of the...

Hello, I am trying to repair my exterior wooden front door where currently the bottom rubs on the threshold and without the extra boost from the threshold misses the latch hole for the bolt on the mortise lock. One problem I'm currently having is that on the bottom hinge the two top holes...

Hello, Just wondering if anyone knows what kind of hinge this is. I've searched all over and even asked on metal-working forums and an online door hinge store and nobody has seen this before. I don't know where they came from but we used them for a a custom piece on a car. What is the name...

I have a door going from my basement to garage. I am not sure if was not properly installed or what. Depending upon the time of year, it does not stay closed unless the deadbolt is locked. The doorknob latch does not catch. I tried tweaking where it sits but this only works for a short period of...

Hi, I've been stripping, painting and re-hanging some doors in a 50s apartment. For most of them I've been able to strip back the hinges to the bare steel, polish them and re-use, so it's been easy to rehang. But on these big double doors, the hinges are too rusted and crappy to salvage. I've...

Hope someone can help. I have an exterior door that I need to stop so that it does not knock into my blinds (particularly the valance). I don't want to put a door stop into the floor as it is a nice hardwood floor and the stop might cause accidents. It's in a condo and the condo is about to...