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Posted by meatnub on July 25, 2008, 2:50 pm
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> > On 7/25/2008 9:23 AM meatnub spake thus:
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> > > Wife and I moved into an 60 year old (or so) row home with apparently
> > > original door knob closures. Sorry don't know the techinical word.
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> > > The door or the knobs are out of alignment, and no matter how hard yo=
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> > > push the door against the door jamb, you can't get the doorknob tongu=
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> > > (the metal part that sticks out) to go into the doorjamb recess metal
> > > thingy (the part where the doorknob tongue goes into).
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> > > The previous owners put those brass looking doorknobs with crystal
> > > clear doorknobs and brass plates... but never did anything about the
> > > doorknob part on the doorjamb itself.
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> > > What do i do to repair this?
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> > First of all, terminology: the parts of the door you seem to be
> > concerned with here are the latch (the thingy that sticks out of the
> > door) and the strike (the metal plate that's supposed to receive the
> > latch.
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> > Hard to tell for sure from your description (pictures might help), but
> > it's possible that the problem is that the latch isn't aligned correctl=
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> > with the strike. This is the most common problem with doors that no
> > longer close correctly: the house has moved over time, and the jamb,
> > which carries the strike, has moved it out of range of the latch.
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> > Pretty easy to tell if this is the case: hunker down so your eyes are
> > level with the latch. Close the door and see where the latch hits on th=
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> > strike. If it's missing the openings in the strike, then that's your
> > problem.
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> > *If* this is the problem, the usual solution is to move the strike (not
> > the latch, which would be much harder to do). Remove the strike, mark
> > the new location, chisel out a new mortise for it, drill new pilot hole=
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> > for the screws, screw it back in.
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> > --
> > "Wikipedia ... it reminds me ... of dogs barking idiotically through
> > endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.
> > It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up
> > the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and
> > doodle. It is balder and dash."
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> > - With apologies to H. L. Mencken
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> Excuse my lack of terminology and thanks for the quick reply!
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> Latch and strike. Got it!
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> Ah yes, that makes sense - the jambs and house moving over time.
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> That's what I thought I would have to do - remove the strike and
> chisel a new opening in the strike. I've been a little hesitant in
> doing this, but I think since all I have to do is move the strike 1/4
> of an inch or so, hopefully I won't have to chisel that much and make
> things worse. Though I don't think I can do much harm, as long as I
> don't chisel where the strike needs to be screwed in.
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> it's frequently hard to drill new holes if they are close to the existing
> holes. you have to plug the existing holes with something. glue in a golf
> tee or dowel, let harden overnight, and drill the new holes in the correc=
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true. i will have to see .. hopefully not...
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