I remember doing this in 2013 for the restroom door at our house with 4 room mates. Except I was a broke sign installer and used a left over 6 inch torque deck screw 😂😂

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

Nice 👍

@wcbscout

6 ай бұрын

It's Torx, trademarked for the 6 point star patterned screw head

@The_ThreeWheeler_Dude

6 ай бұрын

@@wcbscoutI just don’t think he gives a shit

@user-tm8df7if4d

6 ай бұрын

@@wcbscout nobody asked!🤣🤣🤣

@todd5082

5 ай бұрын

Deck screws r fine for an interior door fixes. Just don’t use drywall screws for anything but drywall.

Other videos will have you try and bend the hinge holding the door... I tried that, this was the only fix that worked for me... and the simplest too.

@hausplans

3 ай бұрын

👍👍

@BoopHenderson

17 күн бұрын

​@@hausplansyou're so positive man, I look up to you, keep it up 👍

Yo youtube is the feds. Man my door is sagging like it's single and this comes up on my for you page. Man this weird. But thank you for the tips.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

I was reading your mind😂

Yea, amazing! If I would have thought about that back in 1987....oh thats right, we were taught to install doors properly the first time

If the hole is stripped for the longer screw as well, then you can fill the hollow with toothpicks and a little glue. Then wait 30 minutes for it to dry then drill your screw back in. It has always worked for me.

@NoticeableNate

3 ай бұрын

Golf tees do the same thing but are tapered. You can tap them in, score and snap.

As a retired locksmith I've done this hundreds of times. I use 3" screw though. It was always amazing to me that so called professional carpenters don't care one iota to do this correctly.

@strjourneys7919

17 күн бұрын

What?? I can guarantee you that door worked fine when the carpenters put it on. It's not on them what happens after!

As a contractor's helper, we called this the $80 screw- as that's what it cost to have us come out and implement it.

I also like drilling door hinges from the couch

Double check it’s flush amongst the entire length of the edge , great video! Just gotta remind the newbies . I was taught this by a old man , and now do it even when I instal new doors to ensure no future sagging .

Actually a good tip. Most of the time the screws only go into trim. It's awful

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

👍

You can also stick a couple toothpicks or wood match in the hole to create a new thread point

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

I’ve done that with matchsticks before👍

@foutzie13

5 ай бұрын

Chopsticks work great also!

@robertg9334

5 ай бұрын

@@foutzie13 yes but act more like a dowel unfortunately

@theroadnottaken9378

5 ай бұрын

unfortunetly this would only be a temporary solution.

@johnhalliday719

3 ай бұрын

I use cheap wooden golf tees

Brilliant!

I would of just taken out the screws. Inserted some match sticks into the holes. Snap flush with the hinge. This replaces the wood, that the screw removed. Making a tight fitting screw fix. Simple drill screws back in, job done 😊

I have to do this to every door in new construction

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

👍

You should change all the screws for longer ones. Longer is stronger and better for security. They make kicking a door in quite a bit harder to do.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

👍

@Quade-

6 ай бұрын

This is an interior door so if I had to guess it's an open core door that's easy enough to kick through even if the hinges were unbreakable

@VB-bk1lh

5 ай бұрын

I did that to the door leading to my attic a few years ago, it sagged bad and all the hinge screws were falling out. I replaced the screws with 4" deck screws. When I put in the last screw in the middle hinge, all the lights went out and I got a huge jolt. Turns out the wires leading from the breaker panel to the second floor ran along the inside of the adjacent 2x4, that last screw had run through the romex and the wires to my doorbell, which also fried. A sagging door turned into a f-ing mess. I had to rip out the drywall, run new wires, replace the doorbell and wires and replace the 2x4 behind the door jamb because the real problem was that it was split top to bottom from where they screwed the door jamb in years ago, $700 later at HD it was all better.

@comfortablynumb9342

5 ай бұрын

@@VB-bk1lh sounds about right. Normal stuff if you're a remodeler.

@miketootall2973

5 ай бұрын

I can tell you've never kicked in a door😂

Great information thanks.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

The problem is the door stop that was installed. It pulls the jamb every time you let it swing open. The screw will help but it will sag again.

I needed these videos 2 years ago...haha

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

👍

yo this is exactly my problem haha thank u

Best tenant ever

You should but cardboard behind those hinges to tighten up that big gap

If the door was installed correctly in the first place there would have been shims behind that to where you wouldn't be able to suck it up but yes that is always the first thing I try

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

True, unless it wasn’t nailed properly in the jamb pulled away from the shims

@user-zg7ep5pt3x

6 ай бұрын

@@hausplans I always put a 3-inch screw in the jam you can also hide it by taking the hinge loose putting a jam screw in there and then cover it with the hinge

Good job buddy😊😊😊😊

Thanks for that.

Bad luck if it is a solid brick house. You will need to drill the brick work and use the appropriate fastener.

@kaydotz

6 ай бұрын

You can take out the hinge pins and bend the barrels to tighten or loosen a gap.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

Most houses don’t have brick interior walls, and even if they do, there’s still wood around the door openings

Awesome

I'm surprised it aligned that nice, i thought you might be doing some knuckle bending with an adjustable wrench.

Huge revea thoughl. I can teach you how to shim the hinges if you want

Just make sure that the two outer most screws don't come through the edge of the moulding and play peek-a-boo in the sheetrock.

Wax the screw and even pre drill so it doesn't break off in there

Doesnt work as well with solid core doors but none the less you should put longer screws in the top 2 hinges for this reason

I wonder if this is new guy’s room

There are many reasons why a door could be sat like that. At the end of the day, once I'd seen the 8mm gap I understood what I was looking at. It's 3mm for a pro BTW

Who's Phillip and do you think he has a drill bit that I can borrow too

Wish you would’ve shown an after of the top part that was rubbing

Very interesting 👍🏾

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

I hope you got a discount for helping out lol

💥🤔 dont have time to go get a long screw or just dont feel like it?? Just use a couple toothpicks or even a bamboo skewer and your good to go. Easy quick fix with what you already have handy. 🤠👍

I see your door was touching at top jam, great way to fix. But I have a set of French doors and the one we go out of rubs on bottom-right, how can I fix this issue. Would appreciate the input. Thanks, Steve

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

Sorry, it’s hard to know without seeing a picture. You may be able to shave a little bit off the door

What do you do when you live in an old apartment that's 80 years old and the screws only attach to the doors in the bathroom. The hinges are stuck and painted over to the old metal frame. The new door they installed because the original lock seized and was stuck shut so I broke it open. Now the new door is rubbing at the top and won't shut no matter how much I readjust it and now the hinge on the door is loose and rocking but the door is hollow and has nothing solid to drive a longer screw into it

Bros moving into apartments and doing the repairs a landlord should’ve done before anyone moved in there🤣🤣 my guy should be charging his landlord repair costs

how do you fix a sagging frame, without reframing the door?

Put toothpicks in the hole and redrive the original screws. Fixed in 2 minutes.

Best way to fix it it's called get to wooden tees take the screws out stick the wooden tees in there

This works if there’s room between the door jamb and framing. What if the door is shimmed there or the jamb is tight against the 2X4

@hausplans

3 ай бұрын

Unless it’s pulled away then you shouldn’t have to pull it back so if it’s tight against a stud most likely never pulled away in the first place.

The main problem is, that this is not really a door hinge. It's something that hopes to be a hinge, when it grows up. Seriously, who thought that flimsy thing would work as a door hinge for a reasonable long time. 😁

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

😂

So do you live in the houses you build when they are completed until you have a buyer? Thats actually pretty smart to save/making money until you have your forever home.

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

Yep, we’ve done that a lot and if you live in it more than 24 months, you don’t pay any capital gains tax on the profit as long as it’s your primary residence

@smokeythebear42o

5 ай бұрын

@@hausplans that’s really smart! Love the channel. Really wish I would have gotten into a trade when I was younger.

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Really appreciate you watching👍

you have to make your own repairs as a renter? well assuming you don't have a slum lord 😂

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

It’s quicker than waiting on someone to come repair it for you, if it’s anything big or expensive I’m calling them

Could always just put a piece of cardboard behind the bottom hinge, call it a day, and grab ya a cold one

Ladies and gentlemen, please, before you replace the screw get yourself a dowal that is the same size as the screw hole and plug that hole

LOL, Only do this in your APARTMENT 😅

@NotABot88

6 ай бұрын

Why not in a house?

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

It’s a good fix for everywhere

@Quade-

6 ай бұрын

Spend $3-4 to not have a headache. Most apartments would call that better then new sadly

@NotABot88

6 ай бұрын

@@Quade- Whats 3-4 bucks?

Huge gap on the latch side

I'd a never known

Where could I get a driver bit like the one in the video?

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

Lowes, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Amazon

That gap is hugeee

If it’s an interior door there’s a strong likelihood of it not having a second stud next to the first one so would it be better to be using a 1 5/8” screw in case we hit an electrical wire?

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

We always use double studs on our interior doors in my area but if that’s a concern going with a shorter screw is good idea

I don't have this issue. I removed all the doors from my house.

I can't understand why they use those crappy tiny screws to begin with since it always happens. The original installer should just do it right the first time!

I was gonna say take door off permanently.

Throw a golf tee in and snap it off, great fix for stripped screw holes

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

I’ve also used a matchstick

@wcbscout

6 ай бұрын

I wonder if a matchstick is better than a toothpick? Because the toothpicks are a little more dense, it seems like they shift the screw alignment slightly, but theoretically, the denser wood holds better, but I could see the matchstick being more malleable around the screw

@stevemassie9775

6 ай бұрын

Chopstick and wood glue

@thehopelessmechanic6370

6 ай бұрын

@@wcbscout bamboo golf tees work best if you really wanna get fancy (cheaper than normal tees actually)

Why Do you just build more stable. Thick brickwalls and more massive hinges.

Milwaukee is the s***

Doesn't the trim prevent movement?

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

If it had been a quality job it should have

Why 2 1/2? 3 1/2 Catch jack and king stud.

@hausplans

4 ай бұрын

I just didn’t want people to use a screw that’s too incase it would go into a wire.

The electric drill caused the original screws to strip

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

They were stripped before I did anything to it

Mine are on with lagbolts 😅

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

👍😂

That whole door needs to be rehung simply because the latch side of the door frame needs to be no more than 1/8 of an inch away from that door latch

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

Agree, but I’m not gonna go through that hassle for something I don’t own

Just use a golf tee.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

That can work!

Yeah now you have the opposite ,a bigger gap at the top then the bottom.

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, but at least the door opens and shuts. It needs to be removed and rehung properly but I’m not gonna take the time to do that on an apartment that I’m renting temporarily.

I did this and somehiw knock out the power in my room

I always run my wire up the door jam. Good luck!!

Or you could just. Put a matchstick or two with glue. Into the hole then replace. The same screws into the hinge.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

That would’ve held a hinge, but I needed to pull the entire jamb closer to the framing

Now the doors rubbing on the bottom….

Wrong tool used

Call your landlord get him off his lazy ass and repair the door. You pay for that service .

Door? No

What’s a haus

@3longatedMuskr4t

6 ай бұрын

Are you a bot?

Rubbish fix you can walk through the gap now without opening the door 🤣

No duh😅

Wrong level the house

@hausplans

5 ай бұрын

Ok 😂

That tool sucked.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

What tool?

@icsx

6 ай бұрын

@@hausplans Milwaukee. Kinda slow from what i've gotten used to with impact drivers.

Whoever installed the door originally should have put longer screws in the top and bottom hinges at least. It appears that your door was not professionally installed.

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

I agree

I don't buy it , the door was sagging a lot farther then the loose hinge

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

The hinges were loose and the jamb had moved

@jimowens3201

6 ай бұрын

​@@hausplans That not what the video shows , it just shows putting long screws in the hindge

That still looks like a bad fit. What do you expect these days. Everyone’s using those prehung pieces of garbage. I’m old school and still hang doors the old fashioned way. Can’t make chicken soup out of chicken shit

@hausplans

6 ай бұрын

Totally agree

Deff should use a black n decker 12 volt from sears

I ain’t fixin shit you can’t make me

А там бетонная стена и дверной наличник это не показатель какой то глубины!)