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Messed Up Entry Door Installation

4 years ago

It's me guys! Am I exaggerating when I say this is a messed up entry doors installation? The latch barely goes into the strike plate.

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  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    These are the pictures







    First two pictures are the double front entry doors and the last two photos are the back entry door. These are actual pictures with no zooming.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Is it a double lock system? Meaning you turn the lock, but then pull the handle up. It should tighten the door securely.

  • 4 years ago

    It's a double lock system. I just wanted to show how locks barely goes into strike plate and big gap between the double front door and how the same is with the back door

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Take a another photo of it double locked.

  • 4 years ago

    It is double locked, both front and back

  • 4 years ago

    Both doors shown in picture are in double locked

  • 4 years ago

    How big is the gap? There has to be one or you would never get your door open but it does look big. Ours is just under 3/16 inch, was done by professionals and closes and locks fine. More than 3/16 might be a problem.


  • 4 years ago

    It isn't hung right. Not even parallel to the jambs besides the poor spacing.

  • 4 years ago

    @dan1888 Thank you and I told my contractor that since he had temporary door knobs on it and he said once I out my double locks, it will shut tight with no gaps. I know a door should have a slight gap so the doors wont rub, but this is wrong in so many ways. Please explain to me dan1888 what is wrong so I can convey it to my contractor.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Take pics from further back and answer my questions as the little bit of limited info we can glean from those pics is not enough to answer your question.

  • 4 years ago

    FollFollowing

  • 4 years ago

    @millworkman here you go






  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    @millworkman here you go









  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Still impossible to see much with these pics. How about the balance of my questions:

    "Does the door swing free and easy? Does it close well? Does it stay where it is if you open it half way? Is the frame plumb, level and square? What does the reveal look like at the head and the sill? What does the reveal look like at the jambs? Who hung the door in the frame?"


    How about full pics that are clear and not out of focus?

  • 4 years ago

    @millworkman I am not sure what you want. I took pictures and did not zoom at all and not sure what you mean when you say out of focus. But dont worry about trying to diagnose it, okay. I can tell it's not right, but thank you.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    This is the left side of the double entry door



    This the right side of the double entry door



    Look at the gap on the left side of the hinges compared to the right side of the hinges. Is there a reason why one gap is bigger than the other one?

  • 4 years ago

    Is the reveal consistent top to bottom on the right side? The left side? Again, who hung the door? Is the door plumb, level and square in the opening?

  • 4 years ago

    Yes its consistent from top to bottom. The door was originally framed wrong and they had to make an eyebrow from a rectangular frame. It was a door guy that hung the door, but he originally said that it was framed wrong but he will do his best to make it work. My contractor was notified when I first noticed it was framed wrong, but did nothing to fix framing


  • 4 years ago

    The reveal on the right door from the inside is too tight and the left appears to large, which to me means the door jambs may not have been machined properly. The gap being so large at the meeting stile lead me the same way. Tough to be sure but probably need the frame rebuilt properly. Are all the hinges mortised fully and flat with the jambs? Do you have any pics before the drywall was put up?

  • 4 years ago

    @millworkman These are some before pictures.




    This is where I informed him that the front entry was framed without the eyebrow arch. Instead of fixing it in the framing stage, he did this below







  • 4 years ago

    Interior pictures? I need to see how the frame fits the opening. Also please answer theses questions as they make a big difference and I have asked them several times.


    "Is the door plumb, level and square in the opening?"

  • 4 years ago

    Insulation side is interior pictures and the bar window side is exterior. The frame was cut as a rectangular frame as shown in the 1st and 3rd photos, instead of an eyebrow arched frame as showing in the 2nd house plan photo.


    The eyebrow arched door was fitted into the rectangular frame and then pieces of wood was cut to fill in the open gaps to fit the eyebrow arched door as shown in the last few photos.

  • 4 years ago

    Interior picture BEFORE drywall was installed what I am looking for. Plumb, level and square is this link as an explanation.

  • 4 years ago

    @millworkman t's a lot of information, but I can't determine that because the door is hung and I see what you see in the pictures.

  • 4 years ago

    Well all of the above will be needed to help determine what and where it wrong, unfortunately. Then you will need to get someone on site to do some selective demo and take some solid measurements.

  • 4 years ago

    "but I can't determine that because the door is hung"


    All the dimensions and checking for plumb level and square are done after the door is hung, and it includes the door frame.