On Jul 25, 12:23*pm, meatnub wrote:
Wife and I moved into an 60 year old (or so) row home with apparently
original door knob closures. Sorry don't know the techinical word.

The door or the knobs are out of alignment, and no matter how hard you
push the door against the door jamb, you can't get the doorknob tongue
(the metal part that sticks out) to go into the doorjamb recess metal
thingy (the part where the doorknob tongue goes into).

The previous owners put those brass looking doorknobs with crystal
clear doorknobs and brass plates... but never did anything about the
doorknob part on the doorjamb itself.

What do i do to repair this?

Update:

I found that for our main bedroom door, the problem is that the door
the latch is in, is about 1/4 to 1/2 inch away from the strike &
doorjamb. So that about an 1/8" or so tip of the latch barely sits in
the strike. The other problem is, the doorjamb seems to be pushing on
the door, so that when you close the door (and you have to kind of
REALLY push on it to close for the latch to enter the strike), since
the latch isn't all the way in the strike, the counter-force from the
doorjamb pushes the door and forces the latch out of the strike
causing the door to re-open in a heartbeat.

So.. what to do? I either have to find a doorknob assembly with a
longer latch that will rest deeper in the strike or i have to find a
way to make the strike sit out further from the doorjamb? Or take the
door off the hinges and rework it so it's closer to the strike/
doorjamb? (don't like/think i need to do this last option)

Thanks in advance...