You’ll need to paint the inside of the door once it’s flat. The reason it’s warping is that the exposed interior surface is sucking up atmospheric moisture and expanding but the exterior surface is staying stable.
You just made my day!The same happened to me and and lost a little sleep over it,but now I know what to do,all because of you!Thanks a million and great post!👍👍👏👏👏👏👏🕺🎶🕺happy guy.
Thank you! I had to share because I was looking for how to fix the door without removing it and couldn't find anything that would work! Thanks for watching!
Yo, I have the same exact problem you had. Just finished building my 8 x12 shed and the right door (lower left) bows out about an inch. Put on the latch and pushed it closed (locked)....that helped a little. Somehow, I knew that someone out there had a solution to this problem. Thanks for posting your solution. I'm going to try that tomorrow. I live in NY where temps are now in 50-70 degrees range so not sure if it will work due to lack of hot/warm temperature.
Thank you for sharing this easily applicable solution to a twisted problem. I have a similar problem with my two doors, 4 feet each, that don't line up in the center, due to a diagonal warped. On the left door, the top comes outwards, while the bottom seems to come inwards. For the right door it is the reverse, so the doors are not aligned at the closing point. I will try this solution hoping that this will fix the alignment of the two doors. Thanks again.
Hello and thanks for sharing! Has it worked for you for the long term? I have the same problem and i tried to bend with force. It worked for a day or two and than twisted back.
Hi and thanks for sharing your wonderful device with the world” just a quick question if you don’t mind, would this work on an internal door made of hardwood or oak ?
Would this work on treated wood? Specifically can the heat and humidity reform the wood once it has Polyurethane on it? I just installed a pretreated warped bathroom door that I’d like to correct.
Great method! I have a similar problem for a shed door I constructed. I have a convex bow opposed to a concave bow that you had. Love your contraption but for my bowing I would have to drill holes on the outside which I am trying to avoid. Also, I think I would need more tension as my frame is 2x4 Any suggestions?
Thank you for sharing this video I have 2 bedrooms doors the twisted or warped the don’t close properly the gap on the top side both doors can this method help sorting out Thanks
Thanks for the video. My interior doors (Bathroom and Closet doors are bowed out like this. Is there a way to straighten them without drilling a hinge into the door? Thanks
Love me some "Hillbilly Engineering" and all, but no need to reinvent the wheel when they make Turnbuckle kits and metal rope to do this already that you can pick up at every hardware store in America for less than $5. But i get it i do the same thing when i get an idea i do it my way! cool idea though.
This happened to my front door. it would not close and lock all of a sudden. Luckily I have an outer door that locks. I finally got it closed and locked, but am afraid to go out the door for fear of not being able to lock it. The top part of the door has a slight outward twist in it.
Luck? 🤣 well really the hope is (this is what happened in my case) after letting it sit in the straightened setting it will start to acclimate to the changes of humidity levels and maybe dry out a bit to make it stay that way. I still have the wire attached and the blocks handy just in case I have to do it again but it has been good. When all else fails you could just get some old school turnbuckles. Hope this helps!
Hey Mike! I think it would, just have the other end of the wire attached to the middle of the door. I am not sure exactly what they call these bolts. They are used to secure counter top corners together but you could use a nut and washer to work the same way. Thanks so much for checking the video out and good luck!!
I didn't see a whole lot of details about how the cable ends were attached to the door. A brief shot of the hinges was all I got. Clearly, this is a critical part of the process.
Dear Mr Extremely Clever Man, I have made my first ever window frames, joints... the works. However, I'm a novice and didn't realise one of the long sides is heartwood. If I lay the frames (double window) 7 of the corners lay flat but one pesky corner is 10mm (just under half an inch I guess) off the surface. I wish I could show you a picture. I'm getting desperate and have just sprayed water on the two timbers leading to the pesky corner and have clamped it bent in the opposite direction. Can you help me? The frames are soft wood - redwood pine I think. H E L P. Cheers, David.
As Chad mentions. That could be a foundation leveling issue. If not it’s a fairly easy fix. I had this problem. I just used a 1x4 approx 5 ft long. On the inside I put the wood vertical and on the other side I use large washers and drywall screws and screw them thru the plastic and into the wood, at the same time I am also pushing the convex side inward (in my case inward towards the wood). Put 8-10 of the drywall screws with large washers into the wood and since the plastic is much more flexible, the wood holds it pretty straight. I did this to both doors. In my case, we had a bike wheel putting pressure on the doors for many months and caused the deformation. It’s probably easier in warm weather too
Would a turnbuckle not work a bit better? Maybe it wouldn't, not sure. Either way, thank you Edit: No, now that I think about it, your way is better because the angle of attack is greater with your method.
