I got 'doored' on a ride today!

[ColinJ]

Could you not have cycled with the door balanced on your head.

Don't encourage me - I'm mad enough without your help!

I thought about balancing the door across the bars and saddle but decided that it would be a bit hard to steer.

[QUOTE 5564311, member: 9609"]you should have left it until the morrow, the forecasted wind would have made it more exciting[/QUOTE]
I was walking past a very expensive-looking parked car when a light gust of wind made the door wobble on my head ... After that I walked down the middle of the road, well away from parked vehicles! (A quiet backstreet with very little traffic on it.)

 

[gavroche]

You better checked the woodworm hasn't moved into your helmet.

 

[Speicher]

You can handle it @ColinJ , it all hinges on the way you approach the job. Basically it's an open and shut case but you must be in the right frame of mind.

Just be sure not to get into a jamb.

 

[Houthakker]

Good job your friend didn't want the doorway bricked up instead of a new door fitting, othwise this could have been you post skipdive.

 

[PeteXXX]

Hanging doors is a job I avoid like the plaque. Even if a veggie curry and a cuppa was to be on offer.
By the time you've finished, you'll have....

I'll stop here. Don't want to put you off!

 

[Levo-Lon]

The door is an inch and a smidge too short but so is the current door. I think it will be worth screwing a length of timber to the bottom of the replacement door. I think the new owner intends to paint the door so I wouldn't have to worry about mismatched grain etc.

That's the fix, glue and nail with pins.
You can tap the pins down below the surface to allow planing to size.

Get some wedges to help align before any hinge chopping ect

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The door is an inch and a smidge too short but so is the current door. I think it will be worth screwing a length of timber to the bottom of the replacement door. I think the new owner intends to paint the door so I wouldn't have to worry about mismatched grain etc.

Don't put it on the bottom put it on the top, peoples eyes tend to look down not up, but I'm with @PeteXXX only 2 jobs in the house I won't do, plastering & hanging doors, I'd rather pay somebody & as Yorkshireman you know how devastating that can be.

 

[Lavender Rose]

I have a few friends like that, females, i love to help but you do earn that cuppa

Haha...is that what you call the arrangement

 

[Levo-Lon]

Good job your friend didn't want the doorway bricked up instead of a new door fitting, othwise this could have been you post skipdive.
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That's brilliant

 

[Cycleops]

Mmm - we didn't exactly look at it closely ... I wondered why someone would chuck away 3 good doors!

If it's a solid wood door as you say they are very prone to warping.

 

[ColinJ]

If it's a solid wood door as you say they are very prone to warping.

I AM wondering what I have let myself in for!

My father was a carpenter/joiner but he made a point of NOT passing on any of his skills to me. He said that he didn't want me spending 40 years working on cold, wet, muddy building sites like him. I was bright, so work with my head rather than my hands...

 

[raleighnut]

Why did you not balance the door on one pedal (stood vertically) and push the bike, I've bought loads of stuff home like that including pallets (for kindling)

 

[roadrash]

Has she got a fridge....

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goy8fdRXisw

 

[ColinJ]

Why did you not balance the door on one pedal (stood vertically) and push the bike, I've bought loads of stuff home like that including pallets (for kindling)

Pah! PAH! PAH!!



Er, I didn't think of that. So much for being bright!

 

[postman]

The door is an inch and a smidge too short but so is the current door. I think it will be worth screwing a length of timber to the bottom of the replacement door

Don't faff about like that,all you need to do is screed another inch all over the floor..