About 12 months ago a mate fitted 4 new decent quality interior doors for us. He is brilliant with wood, I'm not. For the past week one of the doors has been binding slightly on the casing. The casing has not moved, the hinges are still tightly screwed in and the joints on the door are not coming apart. Nothing heavy is hung on the door, just a dressing gown. Door does not get direct sunlight, house is not damp. House is about 50 years old, so I doubt subsidence. I just sanded a bit off the offending part of the door and it is now fine. Has anybody got any ideas why this door should suddenly start to bind?
Door binding on frame - why?
Sep 07, 2016
13 Replies
I have one that I have to sand down a bit most years. I think it's just absorbing moisture from the air in summer.
Yep. Indoor humidity is max in summer.
One door, er, next door is binding but once the temperature drops and the humidity gets back down to reasonable levels it'll be OK. It did the same in the hot weather and then was OK. Don't go taking bits off or it'll be gappy when it shrinks.
Humidity, yes. There was very little dust on the floor as I sanded very little off the door. Thanks to all that replied.
Sure? In Scotland it's about 60% all year round.
I hope you gathered up every grain by hand.
just rub the offending part with a candle.
HA! and Yeah. I did actually try a smear of Vaseline whilst looking for the quick easy fix. It did not work.
But, thanks anyway :-)
a candle is wax, not petroleum jelly. All good woodworkers carry a candle in their toolbox.
Seems counter-intuitive until you realise there's a reason that everything is wet in Winter.
Your humidimeter is wrong?
Well wood does change with heat, like central heating which can put stresses in it but my experience of this is normally that the door twists, ie it at the bottom before the top etc.
Brian
Pounder bought cheap s*it doors. I've never had a door change, not an internal one anyway.
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