Pin dropping out of door hinge

Emma G · Post by **Emma G** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:15 am

Hi everyone, hope someone can help

I've a kitchen door which, being on the 1st floor of a 2 storey house, is one of these that swings shut. For about a year, the pin in the bottom hinge of this door just drops out. It's easy enough to get back in with a bit of manouvering, but obviously after a few days (or minutes) works itself out again.

Is there any reason why this would be happening? The house is only about 2 and a half years old, and the door did have to be adjusted a bit in the first year for some reason - can't quite remember but think it was sticking a bit. I know that there's some movement in a new house in the first couple of years, but as the floor on the other side of the door (the landing) is seriously creaking, I'm wondering if it's a sign of something else?

If not, great, but in the meantime, it's driving me nuts!!!

Any thoughts appreciated

gasspark · Post by **gasspark** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:19 am

Not a pro, but can you not put the pin from the top.

Emma G · Post by **Emma G** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:29 am

the top has no hole - the top of the hinge is capped off.
been put on upside down???

gasspark · Post by **gasspark** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:32 am

Turn the hinge round, that should solve the problem.

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:16 pm

It's upside down Emma,do as gasspark suggests.

Emma G · Post by **Emma G** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:28 pm

just have!
i'm normally quite intelligent, I don't know why it didn't occur to me months ago

Guess I didn't expect it to have been done wrongly.
oh well, live and learn, thank you!

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:49 pm

No problem Emma, we all get stuck by the simplest of problems sometimes.