Upvc door hinge tweak-how?

[zoothorn]

1 minute ago, dpmiller said:

how does the door look like it's fitting into the frame as it closes- are any of the latchy bits rubbing anywhere?

Hi there dpm,

 

no nasty catching on latch bits thankfully. Only at the door plastic at the bottom, clashing on the steel rim of the cill. I understand this -does suggest innitially- that the door's simply gone out of kilter & drooped a tad on the lockside.

 

But you see the house's upvc door & windows, along with 2 extensions, are clearly not a pro job. A decent-effort amateur job, yes. But an awful lot of sub par (even to my amateur stds). Eg WC timber doorframe badly not vertical so the door just closes irritatingly whenever you open it/ EG white silcone to fit the last window trim bits looks like a child's done it!

 

So my hunch is, the chaps's just not hung the upvc front door very well ~20 yrs ago.

 

Thanks Zoot.

 

 

 

 

[markocosic]

Just fix it.

 

Shimming little double glazed units is easy. Buy yourself the plastic wedge/lever so you don't bugger the glass and get on with it as per below:

 

 

I've just done my 2100 x 900 mm full glass / triple glazed units - heavy swines - much the same way. Used birch ply spacers (on top of the channel spacer) rather than plastic as the plastic has a tendency to deform over time where the birch does not. That, and I had the birch ply and a chopsaw to cut it to size, but no plastic. Timber cut end grain also works.