I've got a bit of a problem putting pictures of this door up at the moment, so I've put them in a hidden page on the website.
http://www.bodgedhouse.com/content/warped-toilet-door
The door is tongued and grooved planks with a frame on the front to keep it flat and two very large/ thick planks along the rear. 100 years ago this would have been the outside toilet door but was moved inside during an extension and turned.
The last plank on the handle side is warped so that the top bending towards the door stop, so when closed the hinge side is flush but the handle side is at least a centimetre forwards, more if you try and close the door. Now how would this be fixed, I have sash clamps large enough for the width of the door and various other things. If I take the front frame off and then re-nail it will it hold ? I could just make an angled door stop. The bottom of the appears straight, it's just the top third of the end plank that appears to have moved forwards over the years. A thing I've just noticed, the front frame is typical door construction in that the vertical go from floor to top and the top horizontal is in between. If I were to take off the front frame and change it so that the top horizontal extended all the way from corner to corner that would probably exert more pressure as the end of the warped plank is almost parallel to the vertical on the frame and so currently would not be getting much leverage from the front to hold it flat.
Thank you in advance.
http://www.bodgedhouse.com/content/warped-toilet-door
The door is tongued and grooved planks with a frame on the front to keep it flat and two very large/ thick planks along the rear. 100 years ago this would have been the outside toilet door but was moved inside during an extension and turned.
The last plank on the handle side is warped so that the top bending towards the door stop, so when closed the hinge side is flush but the handle side is at least a centimetre forwards, more if you try and close the door. Now how would this be fixed, I have sash clamps large enough for the width of the door and various other things. If I take the front frame off and then re-nail it will it hold ? I could just make an angled door stop. The bottom of the appears straight, it's just the top third of the end plank that appears to have moved forwards over the years. A thing I've just noticed, the front frame is typical door construction in that the vertical go from floor to top and the top horizontal is in between. If I were to take off the front frame and change it so that the top horizontal extended all the way from corner to corner that would probably exert more pressure as the end of the warped plank is almost parallel to the vertical on the frame and so currently would not be getting much leverage from the front to hold it flat.
Thank you in advance.