Movable barriers at the entrance of buildings, rooms, cupboards, etc. which can be used to allow or deny access to the space beyond. Typically attached to surrounding structure using hinges, sliders, swivels, etc.
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Is there a tool I can use to cut out the templates for door hardware?
I just bought some new hardware (knobs and latches) for the interior doors of my house. Currently the latches look something like this:
And the new latches look something like this (at least the ...
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What primer and paint should I used for a solid-core wooden front door?
I recently purchased a new pre-hung exterior door for my house. We opted for a solid-core Douglas Fir instead of the fiberglass models as the wooden door was substantially cheaper. We want to paint ...
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Doorbell became very soft, battery replacement only necessary?
My doorbell ("speaker" portion pictured above) got very soft today. It
still chimes, but just barely.
I'm guessing it's battery-operated and the batteries are weak, but how
can I tell for ...
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How can I find out where a door is sticking? [duplicate]
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Doors are sticky and noisy when opened?
We have several old doors in our house, with possibly a great deal of paint build up on them. As a result they are very ...
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Why does my latch not retract when I push or swing the door shut, but will retract when the knob/lever is used?
This just started today. I have to turn the knob in order for the latch to retract. Before, I could just push to door shut and the latch would retract when it hit the plate on the door frame. But now ...
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Tips for measuring a front door opening?
I'm getting ready to replace my front door with a brand new pre-hung door and have some questions regarding collecting measurements.
Where exactly should I measure? I've heard people use the phrase ...
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Do you really *have* to mortise for hinges and other door hardware?
I am wondering if it's entirely necessary to mortise a door and jamb for hinges and other miscellaneous door hardware. The only thing I can think of is that, in addition to being screwed in, the ...
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How can I open my garage door from the outside with a dead opener?
This morning I found myself locked out of my garage. My interior wall opener isn't working and neither is the remote. The light on the interior pad is out, suggesting a loss of power. Unfortunately, ...
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How should I mount a sliding closet door track?
I'm looking for input on my intended plan of action.
I'm drywalling a room, closet included. The closet track is to be mounted on a crossbeam running the width of the closet. The crossbeam is ...
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How do I install a pre-hung door in a thick exterior wall?
I live in an old DC rowhouse; it was built in 1908. I'd like to replace the house's two slab-hung exterior doors with newer pre-hung models with full-length lites to increase the natural light and to ...
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How can I soundproof a bathroom door?
I'd like to make one of my bathrooms that one special place where a guest can go about their business in peace. Essentially, I am going to be soundproofing/insulating my entire bathroom, but the ...
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Why do my new door hinges prevent my door from shutting completely?
I have installed some new standard 3" door hinges with a small corner radius on a 32" door. The doors are sold core oak doors. The hinges appear to look fine and fit perfectly flush in the existing ...
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Is there a mechanism to prevent a door from closing violently?
The door is heavy and people usually put a lot of force to close it, resulting in a violent shock, and the noise that comes with it. Is there a way to prevent the shock, without having a door that is ...
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How can I remove a Mortise Lock and deadbolt from a door?
I got an old door from a junk yard that I'm trying to reuse. The door is going to end up being sliding barn door so I have no use for its existing door knob and lock mechanisms. From what I can tell ...
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How can I block or fill out a letterbox hole in my door?
I have a letterbox in my front door that is never used, so I would like to remove it and fill the hole, preferably so it doesn't look like there was ever one there.
Or insert something that fills the ...
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Rip old door in half?
I've got a 26.5"x79" rough opening for a storage space under my staircase. I'd like to install a double door where each door is about a foot wide an hinges out. A ball latch in the top casing could ...
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How can I install modern locksets on these interior doors?
I've recently bought my first house which I'm very excited about, got into the decorating phase and decided to replace the door handles - some of which were damaged - with nice new ones. Being a ...
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How can I have a light turn on when a pocket door is opened?
I'm building a new home with quite a few pocket doors and would like to know if there is a way for the pantry and utility room lights to come on when the pocket door slides open.
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What can we do about previously filled holes so I can varnish wood?
We have bought a house that has nice wooden doors, but holes in them have been filled ready for painting. We would prefer to varnish the wood - what can we do about the white filling in the holes?
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What are the pros/cons of installing floors before doors?
I've heard contractors say to install doors first then flooring, and others suggest the opposite. I'm installing new 3/4" prefinished flooring and new doors/closets (prehung wood/ primed white). What ...
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How can I fix an exterior door that is hard to close?
when I try to close the laundry door it ovelaps the jamb on the handle side. I can only close it by banging it hard against the jamb. The gap at the top of the door increases as it gets closer to the ...
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Changing the window in an exterior door
We were given a new fibreglass door but it is RH instead of LH. How do we change the window so it will be facing the right direction?
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My door doesn't close without having to push it upwards first [duplicate]
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How do I rehang a wooden door with worn screw holes?
I just moved into this room and the door wasn't closing properly, so I took the door off, screwed the hinges in ...
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How can I replace the roller mechanism on this door?
I have a cupboard in my kitchen that has a roller front door. A few months ago the roller mechanism broke. I need an inexpensive solution for replacing it. I have looked around but can't find a ...
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How do I fix an exterior door knob that will unlock but not turn?
My back door (which is only two years old) has a door knob that recently suddenly stopped turning. I can lock and unlock it, but it just won't turn. Here's a picture of the inside of the door knob:
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How to fix stuck pocket doors?
I moved into a house with a number of sliding doors. NOT external, sliding glass doors like the sort that lead onto a porch. These are the wooden kind that separate rooms and slide into the interior ...
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Pocket door variation
Remodeling the bathroom. I want to put in a pocket door, centered, in a 60" opening. Is there a split door product available, that will work similar in principle to draw drapes?
To put the door in ...
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How can I fit patio French doors in a frame that is too small?
My question is very similar to "How can I fit a door in a frame that is too small?" except my house is made of concrete block. I bought a used patio French door to replace my sliding door. The ...
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How do I take door hinges that have a pivot ending with two flat cylinders apart?
I found a door with a pair of hinges that look like most ordinary door hinges but don't let the door to be taken off the doorpost. They seem to have a pivot that passes through the whole height of a ...
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Does a door have to be hung on the edge of the jamb
My door jamb is around 140mm, does the door have to be hung on the edge of the jamb like all the other doors in the house, or can i hang it toward the center of the jamb by 70mm so it can clear a wash ...
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How do I repair a warped sliding glass door track?
I was a landlord for the first time this past year, and I had a couple of surprises when I visited the place to say goodbye to my tenant. The largest being that the sliding glass door barely opened ...
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Door replacement - will door still be solid after cutting?
I need to replace/repair a door in my rented apartment. During a rather rowdy party one of my guests managed to put a hole in my bathroom door.
I don't think that there is probably anyway to ...
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How do I repair a wooden door's hinge binding?
In a rented flat, I saw the that a door wasn't closing properly, and noticed that the hinge screws were loose and not centered.
So I decided to unscrew them, and set them back in properly.
Sadly, by ...
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How to remove a stuck key?
A hypothetical question - if I get a key in the door lock from one side of the door, could I somehow use another key to open the door from the other side?
And what if you could "engineer" the stuck ...
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What are Automatic Garage Door Options for a Garage with a Low Ceiling Clearance?
I have a tuck under single car garage in my bungalow that currently has carriage doors that have seen better days.
I would like to replace the carriage doors with an automatic (and insulated) door, ...
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How do I slow down a pocket door when opening and closing?
I had a pocket door installed in 2009 and the pocket door slides way too fast when opening and closing. I can't work out how to slow it down.
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What is causing discoloration on my bronze-finished lockset?
We bought a bronze finished lockset about five years ago, and now a lot of it is ashy looking and green in some places. It looks a little worse every year. It's on an exterior door facing west. ...
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How can I repair this door and deadlock?
Some time ago I closed my front door (rather forcefully) while the deadbolt was sticking out partially.
This loosened the deadbolt, and the top screw no longer held. In addition, it cracked the door ...
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How do I hang a prehung door?
I want to put up a door in a spare room that is already 82" in height. If I want to put the door to one side of the wall are studs necessary on that side of the wall or can I nail the prehung door ...
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What should I do about a 72 inch door?
I've got a door on a shed outback that pretty much just fell apart this summer and I need to replace it before I get a drift of snow. The old door was a regular wooden door, but I was thinking of ...
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Where to find very old door knob handle / deadbolt set?
I have a townhouse unit with a very old door knob / deadbolt set that I want to replace because the key doesn't fit well and you have to know how to "jiggle" it in order to get the door to unlock. ...
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How to repaint an antique exterior door?
I am about to repaint my 100 year old front door, from white to black. I have reviewed the existing Q&A on the site, but none seem to specifically cover my issues. The door
has been previously ...
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Which side of door should I install a threshold draft excluder?
I purchased this door bottom, MD Building Products 3 ft. x 1-3/4 in. x 1-5/8 in. Vinyl Door-Bottom Moulding, and the directions are straight forward except they don't indicate which side of the door ...
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How do I determine the “hand” of the door?
I apologize in advance if this post is confusing. Let me know if additional clarification is needed. =)
I'm planning to install a new front door and am confused on what the appropriate "hand" ...
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How do I prepare doors to be hung?
Changing out interior doors in house. All of them. Going from brown crap to white 6 panel. I have two hinges on each door. Would like to buy new door with predrilled knob hole, cut it down ...
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How should I install slab doors when the jamb has been drywalled over?
All of my bedrooms have 36" cupboards with bi-fold doors that I want to replace with two 18" double-doors. All of the door jambs are covered in 1/2" drywall. I've made a few test holes and there ...
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What is causing my front door to sweat?
The front door of my house (which is rarely ever used) sweats so badly during the winter. At first I thought it was just the glass, but after a closer look it appears that the rescued areas are also ...
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Can I convert a LH inswing door into a RH inswing?
I have a prehung exterior door that is a LH inswing (brand new not installed yet). Can I somehow switch it to make it a RH inswing? Would it work if I installed it as an outswing?
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Why did my locked door open by itself?
Why would our front door have opened by itself? It was locked. It has an entrance set - a latched, not deadbolt, knob handled, keyed on the outside and turnsnib on the inside style lock. We have had a ...
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Where can I get a new key for an old lock?
There are two locks on my apartment door. The key to the bottom lock was lost long ago - before I moved in - and we now just use the top lock.
The bottom lock is probably 50-60 years old and ...
