hello. We have a upvc door fitted 5 yrs ago. It has 3 hinges. The top hinge
is coming away from the frame not the door. How easy is it to take the door
off its hinges to re screw the top hinge into the frame?

many thanks

"Fray Bentos" wrote in message
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hello. We have a upvc door fitted 5 yrs ago. It has 3 hinges. The top
hinge
is coming away from the frame not the door. How easy is it to take the
door
off its hinges to re screw the top hinge into the frame?

many thanks

Didn't it come with a 10 years guarantee as standard? Might be able to get
some of your money's worth out of the company that installed it.

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:06:11 GMT, "Fray Bentos"
babbled like a waterfall and said:

hello. We have a upvc door fitted 5 yrs ago. It has 3 hinges. The top hinge
is coming away from the frame not the door. How easy is it to take the door
off its hinges to re screw the top hinge into the frame?

many thanks

If you look at the hinges they may have pins that can be driven out
easily allowing the hinges to be seperated. I does save a lot of time.

When rehanging two assistants are nice or some small pieces of wood to
lift the door on to for the pins to be reinserted. No force should be
required other than very gentle tapping with a SMALL hammer or rubber
hammer.

"EricP" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:06:11 GMT, "Fray Bentos"
babbled like a waterfall and said:

hello. We have a upvc door fitted 5 yrs ago. It has 3 hinges. The top
hinge
is coming away from the frame not the door. How easy is it to take the
door
off its hinges to re screw the top hinge into the frame?

many thanks

If you look at the hinges they may have pins that can be driven out
easily allowing the hinges to be seperated. I does save a lot of time.

When rehanging two assistants are nice or some small pieces of wood to
lift the door on to for the pins to be reinserted. No force should be
required other than very gentle tapping with a SMALL hammer or rubber
hammer.


looking a little closer it seems the hinge has a hex slot at the top and the
bottom. maybe undo one against the other and the door lifts off?

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Fray Bentos wrote:

"EricP" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:06:11 GMT, "Fray Bentos"
babbled like a waterfall and said:

hello. We have a upvc door fitted 5 yrs ago. It has 3 hinges. The
top hinge is coming away from the frame not the door. How easy is
it to take the door off its hinges to re screw the top hinge into
the frame?

many thanks

If you look at the hinges they may have pins that can be driven out
easily allowing the hinges to be seperated. I does save a lot of
time.

When rehanging two assistants are nice or some small pieces of wood
to lift the door on to for the pins to be reinserted. No force
should be required other than very gentle tapping with a SMALL
hammer or rubber hammer.


looking a little closer it seems the hinge has a hex slot at the top
and the bottom. maybe undo one against the other and the door lifts
off?

Are you sure that it's not just a case of adjustment being needed? Some uPVC
doors have adjustable hinges - requiring the use of an Allen key (or
sometimes, 2 different Allen keys). One adjuster moves the door closer to or
away from the frame in the plane of the door. The other adjuster moves the
door at right-angles to its own plane - in effect moving it further into the
house or out towards the garden.
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Cheers,
Set Square
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Fray Bentos wrote:

"EricP" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:06:11 GMT, "Fray Bentos"
babbled like a waterfall and said:

hello. We have a upvc door fitted 5 yrs ago. It has 3 hinges. The
top hinge is coming away from the frame not the door. How easy is
it to take the door off its hinges to re screw the top hinge into
the frame?

many thanks

If you look at the hinges they may have pins that can be driven out
easily allowing the hinges to be seperated. I does save a lot of
time.

When rehanging two assistants are nice or some small pieces of wood
to lift the door on to for the pins to be reinserted. No force
should be required other than very gentle tapping with a SMALL
hammer or rubber hammer.


looking a little closer it seems the hinge has a hex slot at the top
and the bottom. maybe undo one against the other and the door lifts
off?

Are you sure that it's not just a case of adjustment being needed? Some
uPVC
doors have adjustable hinges - requiring the use of an Allen key (or
sometimes, 2 different Allen keys). One adjuster moves the door closer to
or
away from the frame in the plane of the door. The other adjuster moves the
door at right-angles to its own plane - in effect moving it further into
the
house or out towards the garden.
--
Cheers,
Set Square
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ha ha. would you believe it ?
after unscrewing the top allen bolt, it turns out its just a sort of dust
cap,
and the whole door just lifts off the hinge pins, without anything needing
un-doing after all.

I lifted the door off and found that the bad hinge had 2 screws which were
loose in the holes
and one had snapped, so I just used very small parts of rawlplugs to fill
the holes and put
some new screws in. All done. I figure the heat on the back door must have
warped it slightly,
putting stress on the hinge causing it to fail.