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Jeffy3 Jeffy3 is offline
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Default Storm Door Out of Alignment


dpb wrote:


If not and the door itself hasn't gone out of square (which you can
easily check by measuring diagonally from corner to corner--if it's off
by more than 1/16" that will definitely be more than a new door. If
that's the case whether there's a fix will depend on how the door was
actually constructed and why it's out of square. If, otoh, the door
itself is still square (actually pretty likely) and the opening itself
hasn't sagged to become out of square (same check works there, of
course) then the mounting or other things like lower hinge wearing out
and letting it droop/sag as noted above are likely culprits.


Thanks for the detailed response, but not sure what you meant by:

"If not and the door itself hasn't gone out of square (which you can
easily check by measuring diagonally from corner to corner--if it's off

by more than 1/16" that will definitely be more than a new door."

If I measure diagonally from corner to corner and the difference
between the two is 1/6" or more, than it's out of square? Is that what
you mean? And what do you mean by "that will definitely be more than a
new door" ?

Thanks in advance!