Help!

I can't get into the garage by the recently installed back door.
It's solid wood in a wood frame and has swollen so much in the wet
weather it has jammed in the frame, top and side. I have planed the
door before to ease it into the frame.
I fear applying too much pressure on the door handle will break it.
How can I get this door opened?

By the way the roll-over entrance door for the garage can be opened
only from within.
There are no keys for the entrance door's handle!

Thanks

Jonathan

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Help!

I can't get into the garage by the recently installed back door.
It's solid wood in a wood frame and has swollen so much in the wet
weather it has jammed in the frame, top and side. I have planed the
door before to ease it into the frame.
I fear applying too much pressure on the door handle will break it.
How can I get this door opened?


Can you get the hinge pins out?

If so, the door may pull out rather than swing open. To swing open needs
more clearance than to pull out.

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73
Brian, G8OSN
www.g8osn.org.uk

wrote:

I fear applying too much pressure on the door handle will break it.
How can I get this door opened?

Wait till the next Spring, when it will hopefully contract again?! :-)

David

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Help!

I can't get into the garage by the recently installed back door.
It's solid wood in a wood frame and has swollen so much in the wet
weather it has jammed in the frame, top and side. I have planed the
door before to ease it into the frame.
I fear applying too much pressure on the door handle will break it.
How can I get this door opened?

By the way the roll-over entrance door for the garage can be opened
only from within.
There are no keys for the entrance door's handle!

If the main door has cable-operated latches I'd be tempted to drill
through it where the cables run and operate them with rods poked through
the holes. Then kick the back door open.
Alternatively get some big screw eyes, screw them into the back door,
attach some rope and yank hard.
Once you've got the back door off plane it some more and seal the planed
edges so it doesn't absorb any more water.

wrote:
Help!

I can't get into the garage by the recently installed back door.
It's solid wood in a wood frame and has swollen so much in the wet
weather it has jammed in the frame, top and side. I have planed the
door before to ease it into the frame.
I fear applying too much pressure on the door handle will break it.
How can I get this door opened?

By the way the roll-over entrance door for the garage can be opened
only from within.
There are no keys for the entrance door's handle!

Thanks

Jonathan


If it opens inwards, get someone to hold the handle down and kick it
police style. Or use a short piece of 4" x 2" and a club hammer at
various points.
If outwards, try hammering a 2" paint scraper into the gap wherever you
can. Then hammer the edge of the scraper to move it along. These things
are usually stuck in just one place.
You didn't paint it recently by chance?

wrote:
Help!

I can't get into the garage by the recently installed back door.
It's solid wood in a wood frame and has swollen so much in the wet
weather it has jammed in the frame, top and side. I have planed the
door before to ease it into the frame.

I am reminded of a time when my back door did this. For some weeks I
was climbing in and out of the kitchen window to get to the garden,
mindful that my neighbour at the time was a prison officer who might
assume he had a new customer!

Can you dry out the door with a fan heater? You may have to do it in
stages at different heights unless you can identify the stuck area.

I fear applying too much pressure on the door handle will break it.

Fit a stout metal handle pro tem?

How can I get this door opened?

By the way the roll-over entrance door for the garage can be opened
only from within.
There are no keys for the entrance door's handle!

If you mean it has a lock but you don't have the keys, a locksmith
sounds like a good bet and could be cheaper than a new door.

Chris