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Whats the groups considered thoughts. At the entrance to the house I
have reinstated a door between the foyer and hall to make the house
warmer but have issues.

I have just hung a door and after a few problems with the builder
erected door frame being off vertical, when the door is shut it fits
the hole very nicely with an even 5mm gap across the bottom ready for
the vinyl. However when I open the door it sticks on the floor. After
having a look the floor of screeded concrete which to the eye looks
okay it is infact quite lumpy and has 5 mm hillocks across it.

What is the best way around this. Take another 5mm of the door at the
end away from the hinge so that it clears the floor but has an almighty
gap underneath when the door is closed.

Use some self smoothing concrete to bring the floor level up to the top
of the hillocks and then continue into the hall some way so that there
is not a noticeable ramp.

Do something, possibly obsessive, to make this barrett box have a level
floor ie get rid of the bumps using grinding, sanding or some other
method. My perfectionist side tends to the latter solution but I
realise my family could well have words. Is there a machine/tool that
can be used to effectively plane or sand down concrete that is not too
expensive to hire and would it be a sensible course of action.

Can't you get hinges that rise off the floor (if you see what I mean).
I'm sure my dad used some to do this with a similar problem to yours
about 30 years ago.

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John Kelly

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