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RE: Sagging shed door

To: Ken Landaiche <ken.landaiche@dlcc.com>,
Subject: RE: Sagging shed door
From: bob bownes <rbownes@neworks.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:29:07 -0500
At 11:37 AM 3/22/99 -0800, Ken Landaiche wrote:
>
>If it is anything like the door and hinges to my crawl space, the hinges are
>sagging, specifically the bolts or screws holding the hinges to the various
>parts. My door did that a few years ago. So I removed everything, drilled
>the holes for larger galvanized lag bolts and bolted it all back together.
>It was sagging again the next year in the same way, bolts in hinges. So if
>anyone has a better idea, jump on into the conversation!


Back on the farm I always wondered why there was a brace at the non-hinged
side of the door that you picked up the door as you were closing it and
rested it on...now I know. Took some of the weight off the hinges. that's
why those doors never sagged...



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