door hing repair

[bpc293]

temple thats a good one to. my friend has an upholstery shop. that dowel and glue does wonders for broken furniture frames

[Raccoon]

Finishing screws cost more than wood screws. You're also paying for the divider case. I just bought one of these assorted locksmith screw sets, and write it off as a convenience.

[bpc293]

since where talking about door repair what do you do when the frame is so beat up you cant bolt in the strike.

[Raccoon]

what specifically prevents the strike from being mounted?

[Shrub]

If things are that bad you either chop out a bit and splice a new piece in or you put the lock elsewhere if its just a dead bolt mortice lock,

Wosrt comes to worst a new frame is needed,

[bpc293]

I'm was asking because i owned a few dumps where i did a so so job. but for a customer would you just talk to them and say the wood is split and rotted would you like to pay this much for me to replace a small piece or this much for the whole frame. i would be scared of doing a few of those at first. my past experience was a night mare. well i guess past experience would tell me there's no option this whole piece of wood needs to be replaced. just wanted your input on things i have had trouble with in the past.

[Shrub]

Well thats the time you ring your local carpenter and offer him the work for a 5-10% finders fee, unless you have a mate that will do it,

[bpc293]

that sounds like a plan i could do it but i'd rather not. yea how far do you guys go. do you install doors the whole nine right up to the plaster.

[Shrub]

As long as builders and joiners in my area think they can fit locks i think i can install a door frame and replaster around it

Its not somthing i regulary come across, ive a mate who i would pass it on to and he passes any lock work on to me,

[Raccoon]

In New Mexico it's a little more difficult than a little plaster. Most of our houses are stuccoed to look like adobe, and many of the frames and especially those with storm doors are studdoed into the wall. That level of patch work would be too expensive and skilled for me to attempt.

[jb68]

Your a cheeky bugger Shrub.

In answer to the question.. I will do the lot, door frame, door, locks, glass, paint it and make good any brickwork or plaster.
But I have been doing this job since I was at school (15 or so) my older brother was also a chippy and used to take me out on jobs with him.
I get the hump when people call me a builder though, I am a multi trade carpenter. Picky I know but there you go.
The thing over here now is that people want the whole job done by one person in one go, they don't want half a dozen blokes treking through their house drinking tea.
In the old days, one bloke would fit it, another would glaze it and another would paint it

[bpc293]

thats funny shrub. racoon i never thought about what houses where built out of in diffrent places. I'm the stucco king. i used it allot when i was a slum lord for cover up's. old walls that should be torn down or that patched ceiling. this is lazy and terrible. i duct taped a hole and stuccoed it. i would never do that for a costumer that was in my bed room.

i'm kinda a jack of all trades i just need to get a little better at all of them except pluming I'm a decent plummer. the one thing i hated owning rental property. being called for a plugged toilet thats be messed up for days