Marlowe from North York, Ontario has painted her doors, door knobs, and latches so well that nothing works any more -- the doors just won't stay shut.It is usually best to remove all the hardware before painting, or at least mask it -- but in this case she wanted to change the colour of the hardw...
Gates that swing out towards the street present a serious problem for latches. If you mount the latch on the gate itself, it will not work unless you install it on the street side. Out on that side it is simply not secure. If you mount it on the fence, then the shaft that catches the gate is a...
ENTRANCE DOOR HORIZONTAL ADJUSTMENTS
Entrance doors often warp from season to season and are hard to close in the winter and rattle in the summer. This requires moving the strike plate horizontally -- but the good fit changes from season to season. Don't adjust it at all -- but rather follow...
Some door latches are just not installed snugly, while some doors warp with the seasons and are too tight part of the time and too loose the rest of the time. Typically, the strike plate needs to be moved over a fraction of an inch for a good fit. The best way to do that is to fill the existing s...
Have you ever tried to run a string up from the gate latch, through the post and then put a ring or something on the outside. Of course it gets stuck in the wood or breaks, requiring you to either go through the house with your muddy boots, or over the fence.
So finally (2014) one of those inven...
