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Default How to adjust PVC door hinges (pictures)

Chris J Dixon wrote:

SS wrote:

Does anyone know how I can adjust these hinges on a PVC door
(dropping at the latch side)

I hope the links work.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...20Dates/h1.jpg

This one looks off center..

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...0Dates/h11.jpg

The hinge is deliberately made with an eccentric pin. By rotating
the plastic wheel (and hence the pin) using the screwdriver slot,
you can get some degree of adjustment. When you replace the
plastic cap, which should have a couple of pegs on the underside,
it stops the wheel from rotating in normal use.


+1

Be careful to try and adjust them all evenly. It looks like one is
different to the others, so I'd reset all of them, then back out again
a notch at a time. This stops the door or frame moving as much. I know
they're not supposed to 'much', but UPVC doors do experience thermal
expansion and in our school I have to adjust them every season, it
seems.

One problem is they're usually delivered as a pre-set door/frameset to
a building site and some builders just whack them in any old how, not
caring if they're hung well or true, so it might be worth making up a
plumb line to check the verticals and a spirit level for horizontals
and make a decent job of it.

OTOH, a lot of the time it's suck it and see, a twiddle here, a twiddle
there and job's a good 'un .. .

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Paul - xxx