Make sure that closes properly.
How to fix steel french doors that stick.
Set up a power or cordless drill with a screw tip attachment.
For your french doors that won t close the secret to repairing french doors is to align french doors first by securing all the french door hinges to the.
Before doing so mark the spot with a pencil on either end where the door needs to be sanded.
With a drill you re more likely to over tighten the screw and strip the screw holes or chew up the screwheads.
If not remove the door from its hinges and lay it flat on the floor to sand.
This can be done while the door is in place if you have access to the necessary spots.
Tighten the screws that go into the door and the screws that go into the door frame.
You do this one door at a time.
Do not over tighten the screws or you may strip break them.
Tighten the screws in the hinges at the edges of the doors and at the faces of the doorjambs at each side of the opening.
If you break off a screw head or strip it use an inexpensive device called a screw extractor to remove it.
Tighten the hinge screws.
The more you use your french doors the more likely the thread of the screws will drag against the walls of their casings and loosen.
Smooth away any spots that stick with a sanding block.
Lumps or thick drips in paint or varnish on the edges can make a door stick.
If your door rubs near the top or drags on the floor use a screwdriver not a drill to tighten the screws.
He whittles a inch wide slightly tapered splinter out of a scrap of wood then squeezes wood glue onto it and into the screw hole.
Then bring the other door into it.
Screws with oversized holes can also be tightened at least temporarily by inserting several pieces of toothpicks or some steel wool into the hole.
In most cases the problem is now fixed.
If this is the case you may need to remove the entire doors so you can renew the holes.
Fixing french doors is not rocket science.
If the french doors have dropped due to loose screws in the hinges attempt to tighten them before you test the doors again.
You know where you have sort of the overlap the astrical moulding.
To repair a stripped screw hole under the hinge leaf tom plugs the hole and gives the screw something new to bite into.
You close the door with sort of the jamb side on it.