Doors not shutting anymore?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:54 pm
Ok, I bought a 3 year old mobile home in 2005. This is my second winter in it. I've had no problems until now. It's the first day of spring and it's been a mild winter to say the least save for a couple weeks of cold. I didn't even shovel my driveway once this winter.
Anyway, my first problem was that I noticed my front door wouldn't close properly to lock the dead bolt anymore. They wouldn't line up anymore. So I just moved the piece down and viola, it worked. I figure this was a temporary fix until I found out how/why this happened. I have since checked on my back door and the same thing has happened there. So I checked the inside doors throughout my place and come to find out that half of them no longer close properly anymore.
My non-handy brain tells me that my house has shifted slightly somehow over the winter. I checked around and a lot of places recommend that the tie-downs are loosened before winter and re-tightened in the spring. I climbed under today and checked 4 of the 6 I could get to. None of them were overly tight, but I loosened them more anyway just to see if that helps over the next little while. The two I can't get to are back in the corner behind the blocks it's sitting on. Hopefully those aren't causing my problem.
Any other suggestions as to why my doors aren't closing right anymore? And how I might go about fixing the problem?
Thanks for the help and sorry it's so longwinded.
Dave.
Anyway, my first problem was that I noticed my front door wouldn't close properly to lock the dead bolt anymore. They wouldn't line up anymore. So I just moved the piece down and viola, it worked. I figure this was a temporary fix until I found out how/why this happened. I have since checked on my back door and the same thing has happened there. So I checked the inside doors throughout my place and come to find out that half of them no longer close properly anymore.
My non-handy brain tells me that my house has shifted slightly somehow over the winter. I checked around and a lot of places recommend that the tie-downs are loosened before winter and re-tightened in the spring. I climbed under today and checked 4 of the 6 I could get to. None of them were overly tight, but I loosened them more anyway just to see if that helps over the next little while. The two I can't get to are back in the corner behind the blocks it's sitting on. Hopefully those aren't causing my problem.
Any other suggestions as to why my doors aren't closing right anymore? And how I might go about fixing the problem?
Thanks for the help and sorry it's so longwinded.
Dave.