Door Not Latching In Winter

The doors would not latch during a cold spell a couple of years ago and they just lubricated the latches.

Door not latching in winter. Even usual wear and tear can contribute. The fixes are very simple if you have any suggestions for videos you w. During any season but winter the moisture causes little problem but in the cold it can freeze and prevent the lock from turning. If you find that the latch contacts the strike plate too high or too low make sure all the door s hinge screws are tight.

Tighten the screws on the hinge plate that holds the door onto the frame. Damp weather or heat may be warping it. I have a larson storm door that will not latch unless you turn the handle manually to latch it. Loose screws during the wintertime screws may come loose from your door.

No tsb or recall was mentioned at the time. If that doesn t solve the problem try this trick. Even if you pull of push the door to try and latch it it will not latch until you turn the handle. The latch moves freely when you push it in without sticking.

So both the door and door frame shrink slightly during the winter but the door frame slightly more resulting in a door that won t fit. My wife and i spent 20 minutes fooling around with the doors before they latched. A door lock has a direct entry to its inside mechanism the key hole. Ground that has frozen under the door may also cause it to not close properly.

Moisture from rain snow and ice easily enters the key hold and is protected from evaporation by settling into the many nooks and crannies of a lock. Like door binding this is also caused by. What we would expect is for the door to shrink in the winter yet seemingly it gets bigger the problem i think is that the door frame shrinks in the winter more than the door does most likely it has a higher thermal expansion coefficient. Every door comes to a time when it will not latch correctly and there are various reasons why.

Step 4 add cardboard shims between the hinges and the frame on either the top or the bottom depending on whether you need to raise or lower the door. The long screw will grab the wall framing and draw in the whole doorjamb slightly. This video shows 3 common issues that result in a door not latching or staying closed. Last week the problem reoccurred on both front doors.

Frozen latch on car door subscribe for more. Fortunately there are several ways to fix a door that will not latch. Remove one of the screws on the jamb side of the hinge and drive in a 3 in. But how considering that the door doesn t fit in the winter.

Tighten the top hinge to make the latch hit higher on the strike plate or the bottom hinge to make it hit lower.