How To Fix French Doors That Stick At The Top

How to fix a door that is rubbing or hitting the top of the door jamb.

How to fix french doors that stick at the top.

Plane the door with a belt sander. Luckily leveling your doors is as easy as tightening or loosening your hinges until the doors are back in place. In this video i will show you how to fix a door to stop it from hitting the door jamb. Over time french doors will start to loosen in their frame and hang crooked making it difficult to open or close.

Open and close the doors together to check for sticking along the center where the two doors meet. If you ve made your adjustments to the hinges and you still feel a draft coming inside you may need to add new weatherstripping on the inactive door to seal it. Where the doors stick will determine how you fix the problem. Watch for the areas where the doors sticks particularly around the top and bottom of each door.

Masking tape makes the pencil line easy to see. Apart and run the point along the jamb. If your door still sticks after you ve tried tightening and driving screws you ll have to remove the door and plane it. Now precisely where on this part of the door frame does the sticking occur.

Most times you ll find that the door sticks along the top because the door is sagging. If the weathers been hot and your doors face south why you should maybe hang on before adjusting those french doors. How to fix a double door that will not close tightly when doors don t close properly it s because they are misaligned with respect to the jamb or in the case of french doors with each other. Step 1 determine the source of the problem whether the french doors are completely unable to open only stick intermittently or simply feel rather stiff you must examine them thoroughly to determine the cause of the problem.

Open and close the doors individually. On the top middle or bottom.