I'm fitting a new door on my bathroom. The rest of the bathroom is done and it didn't occur to me to check whether the door frame was straight until I got onto that particular job. As the existing door didn't swing I guess I assumed everything was straight. So replacing the jamb now would cause a costly mess to a beautiful job so far. It would be too disheartening to do that as it's taken me 3 years (health problems and lots of other unforeseen delays). So I'm looking for an alternative solution.
The offending jamb is the one that will have the hinges on (I'm turning the door round which is probably why it didn't swing before, and that fact didn't occur to me until I started the job). The width of the opening is about 10mm greater at the bottom. I suppose in theory I could fix a tapered strip to the jamb though I would have no idea how to cut a 35mm wide strip that's 10mm at one end and and 0mm at the other. Besides, the stops on the other side are only 10mm so allowing for a couple of mm gap between door and frame there would be a little gap at the bottom visible from the landing.
So is there an easy alternative? Can I make it work by judicious positioning of the hinges?
Alan
The offending jamb is the one that will have the hinges on (I'm turning the door round which is probably why it didn't swing before, and that fact didn't occur to me until I started the job). The width of the opening is about 10mm greater at the bottom. I suppose in theory I could fix a tapered strip to the jamb though I would have no idea how to cut a 35mm wide strip that's 10mm at one end and and 0mm at the other. Besides, the stops on the other side are only 10mm so allowing for a couple of mm gap between door and frame there would be a little gap at the bottom visible from the landing.
So is there an easy alternative? Can I make it work by judicious positioning of the hinges?
Alan
