How to Repair Sticking Doors

Series Summary

Home remodeling is a great way to repair and replace broken items in a home. Additionally, home remodeling can bring an outdated home to contemporary standards or can simply maintain the classic or historical look of the home. Home repair is often the last thing homeowners want to spend money and time on. However, as many DIYers know, homeowners can do their own home repair with instructions from home renovation and construction professionals. Get home remodeling and home repair tips in this free video series on how to remodel a home featuring home remodeling professional Ryan Parker. Parker instructs how to repair sticking doors, how to clean windows, how to paint around windows, how to repair a ceramic tile floor, how to re-grout and reseal ceramic tile, how to locate wall studs, how to replace cabinet hinges, how to install a new cabinet door, how to install a new cabinet door front, how to paint a window frame, how to put wood trim on a door, how to put wood trim on a window, how to install baseboards, how to replace a door, how to install or replace door hinges, how to remove stains from tile grout, how to tighten a loose door hinge, how to fix a binding door and much more!

Video Transcript

"I'm Ryan Parker with Parker Home Renovations in New Braunfels, Texas and today I'm going to teach you how to fix a sticking door. If you're walking outside and you shut the door, and it rubs against the door frame, or against the strike plate on the door, you have a sticking door. The first thing you'll probably need to do, is you'll need to locate the hinges on the door and you want to check the hinge and make sure that all of the screws are tight against the wall, and against the door, and that the hinge pin is all the way in. Sometimes what will happen is some of these screws will pull loose, and then the door will start to lean in, and it'll catch that door jam. If all the screws are tight, and the hinge pin is in all the way then, that's not your problem. Another problem it could be is the strike plate could be sitting out too far, now what you could do with that, is you could take the strike plate out, and then you could get a chisel and you'll have to mortise in that strike plate a little bit farther into the door with a chisel and a hammer, just knock out some of the wood where the hinge plate goes, and inset it into the door jam a little bit more. Another way you could fix that is if the doors' sticking at the top right hand corner away from the hinge, you could actually get a three inch screw like this, and a screw gun like this, and you could take out one of the screws on the hinge, take out one of the screws on the hinge, preferably the middle screw, and you could drive a three inch screw, and suck it up real tight on that hinge, and what that'll do is that'll pull the door in a little bit, just to keep it from sticking to that top right section, of the door frame."