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Nesgroup address: misc.consumers.house - Date & Time for the message: 29 May 2005 06:29:01 -0700
/ Author of the message: "Harry K" |
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Re: doors in 100+ year old house don't shut
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Joseph O'Brien wrote: > Hello. I live in an old house, built around 1880. The previous owners > repaired and renovated extensively, but nothing in the house is square. > The interior doors do not latch, or even stick closed. As far as I > can tell, there are two reasons for this. > > First, as I said before, nothing is square. Most of the doors (big, > heavy, 8' tall solid wood) don't even reach the strike plate... they're > off by 1/4" or more. I have a feeling that none of the doors are > matched with their original frames, and perhaps the components of the > frames may have been mixed and matched. > > The second problem is that the doors are loose. By this, I mean that I > can lift up on the free end of the door a little bit. This movement > seems to come from within the hinge. The hinges otherwise seem to be > secure: they are screwed in tightly to both the jamb and the door. > |
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