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Last Updated: Wednesday, September 15th, 1999, Created: Wednesday, September 15th, 1999

Doors that won't stay open

Dave in London, Ontario has a bathroom door that won't stay open.

The frame is probably not vertical so you will have to play with the hinges to get gravity working on your side. You can play with both the top and bottom hinge and you can move each in two directions: shimming behind the hinge and moving the hinge towards or away from the stops. The best thing to do while you are trying to figure it out is to take a small panel, or even piece of cardboard and put a screw in the top and the bottom of the hinge side. Now hold those two screws so that the panel can swing. Lean it one way and another in rather exaggerated movements to get it to swing the way your door does now. That will show you which direction is out of line. Then lean it until it corrects the problem, and you will know which direction you need to move which hinge.

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