Did I ever mention how much trouble we had with the door to the guest bedroom when we moved in? The previous owners had taken it off its hinges to make a doorless office upstairs, but because we're going to use it as an actual guest bedroom, we wanted to replace it.

And it was rather a lot more difficult than we thought. We bought hinges on the way up to the house in one of our DIY missions before we moved in, and successfully attached them to the door, but then we found that we couldn't scrape the existing hinges out from where they'd been riveted into the frame. We tried to remove the rods from the hinges we'd bought so we could just put half of them on the door, but we didn't have the right tools and they weren't the right size to match up with the other halves on the frame anyway. In an attempt to get around the problem, we hit on the idea of taking the door from the basement - which we didn't want to leave up - and we spent a lot of time (and a lot of WD40) banging out the rods from those hinges. With the door finally off, we hauled it upstairs, struggled it into position on the hinges, and then realized that the basement door had been the other way round and so the door hovered about two inches away from the frame.

Just after we'd moved in, we decided on a more organized plan. When I was at the local hardware place getting a couple of screws for the light fixture battle, I got some hinges that had explicilty removable rods, and were definitely the right size to fit into the existing titanium-welded hinge halves on the door frame. After some persuasion with a hammer and a leftover screw, we finally got the rods out of them, using the door as a temporary vice. And, after manhandling the door into position once again, persuading it on to the hinges and spreading some more WD40 on to the cracked and ancient paint, we hammered the new rods through and secured the whole thing in position. Finally, we had a door on the guest bedroom.

Then we tried to close it.


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