i found a full length glass storm door (with brass on bottom) for my moms house at a garage sale. $5! fits perfectly...EXCEPT ...when i hung the door and side trim piece the door now is uneven with the upper trim piece. my door is level--the house isn't! (go figure) you can see daylight between the door and upper frame when you close the door. I had gotten larger screws from the hardware store for the hinge side trim piece (there werent any with it) not only to have the screws but hoping to have additional strength. now after having screwed the piece in, it hasn't closed that gap at all!! ive thought about shimming the lower part of the high side trim piece: behind the frame. help!
2006-11-08 15:34:56 · 6 answers · asked by lisa a 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
U can install a weather strip to the treshhold that will fill the void then nail on a larger piece of trim to hide it.. or better remove the jam all together and reinstall is plum.. If u remove the jam trim u can then cut around the jam (where it is out and using wood shimms re-fit it, Then just nail the trim (door cassings) back on to hide the seam... No problem.. A bit of caulking and some touch up paint and bada bing...
2006-11-08 15:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it`s that far off, I`ll bet the primary door is a b$&%! to close! Typically the problems of the primary door are reflected through to the newly installed stormdoor. Levels are great an essential tools in most construction venues. But sometimes you have set them aside and work with different tools. I like using common sense and improvisation. Experience is also a plus. We have to assume you probably have no thoughts of reinstalling the primary correctly, so the only other alternative would be to remove the storm, remove the exterior trim and reinstall new trim. Obviously you`re not going to be level. Just work on square. It does`nt have to be perfect, the unit has built in tolerances. If you find you have to use new material to trim, use brickmold or 5/4 board. You will need that thickness to hold the frame. Although after rereading your question it sounds more and more like you have a "parallel" problem. The storm is`nt closing "flat" on the frame. Shimming the frame will work, but you could also work shims between the exterior trim and the primary door jamb,providing you get the trim releasedI.E. paint,caulk. Either way you don`t have to make up the difference at one point, the opposite corner will also help.
2006-11-08 21:32:11 · answer #2 · answered by william v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what i do is to cut left board right board and a top board about a 1x2and i screw the door to that.level the hinged side and the rest level with frame on house.carpenters like me have table saws to fill the gap.once i built a level closet in a crooked house and it looked so bad that i had to tear it out and rebuild it to the crooked house.in other words,don't use the trim around the door,instead install1x2 frame so you can move to fit the door the way that you want or need to do.
2006-11-08 15:45:31 · answer #3 · answered by m.w.meredith@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shim the HINGE itself.....it's the opposite hinge you need to shim to the corner you want to level
2006-11-08 15:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by Thankyou4givengmeaheadache 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like you are on the right track. You might add some weather stripping to fill the gap if everything else works ok.
2006-11-08 15:41:35 · answer #5 · answered by T C 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
my house is like that too. you need to shim it
2006-11-08 15:55:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋