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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 sh
by jadbox 4mo 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)
- bigmattystyles 4mo agoThat’s why most doors come prehung in a jamb. Just add shims and then cover them with trim.
- xeonmc 4mo agoI wonder if this could all be solved if doors are triangles instead of quadrilaterals.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4mo agoOr round, like the hobbits do
- 21asdffdsa12 4mo agoYou lough, but the cork always plugs the bottle eventually. Cone shaped round doors with cork on the rim.
- psd1 4mo agoLeather with a drawstring, like a purse. Never needs oil, and my granny knots will keep the lock-picking lawyer out longer than your yale.
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- LoganDark 4mo agoYou guys have doors?
- srean 4mo agoCheck if it's the hinges that are yielding.
- ErroneousBosh 4mo agoI 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.
- pkaeding 4mo agoHave 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/ https://www.mysteryspot.com/
- VagabundoP 4mo agoobviously a small space-time anomaly. Nothing to be alarmed about. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.
- ErroneousBosh 4mo agoThis is the answer we came up with. Guy in the flat downstairs must have been dicking about with supermassive dark matter.