Comment by jadbox
4 days ago
I feel this in my soul. I thought I could replace a door in a day, but months of fiddling, I discovered by frame is not only a parallelogram but it literally shifts by over an inch between seasons. (~100yr old house 2nd floor)
I lived in a flat in a 200-ish-year-old building when I was at uni. Lovely flat, handy for uni, handy for work, near the shops, near a park, flatmates were pretty okay, comfortable, airy, well-lit, and warm.
Here's the thing we - a flat full of nerdy tech students - never figured out.
The walls in two of the bedrooms (including mine) were perfectly plumb, all four walls straight. Bookshelves lined up nicely with the walls. The floor was flat and level.
But the room was 10cm narrower at the ceiling.
Have you ever been to The Mystery Spot[1]? It is a fun tourist trap with all sorts of conundrums like that.
[1]: https://www.mysteryspot.com/
obviously a small space-time anomaly. Nothing to be alarmed about. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.
This is the answer we came up with. Guy in the flat downstairs must have been dicking about with supermassive dark matter.
That’s why most doors come prehung in a jamb. Just add shims and then cover them with trim.
I wonder if this could all be solved if doors are triangles instead of quadrilaterals.
Or round, like the hobbits do
You lough, but the cork always plugs the bottle eventually. Cone shaped round doors with cork on the rim.
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You guys have doors?
Check if it's the hinges that are yielding.