Help! As can be seen in the attached picture, my door has separated itself from the top hinge. The door pictured is the door that leads into my apartment (no worries, this is the second door one would have to get through to get to me, so safety isn’t an issue and doesn’t make this an urgent matter.) This is a solid door and it has been hanging here just fine for many years. Is there a common reason that this happened? I’m considering replacing the door (I’m assuming it can’t be fixed) myself, but if this is something that is the result of improper hanging, I can ask my landlord to have a handyman come by. (I’d rather do it myself if possible and not bother the LL) Any ideas?

In case the picture doesn’t post here, you can see the pic on my Flickr page:

www.flickr.com/photos/35191472@N03/5621983842/


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  1. Door hinges are those metal plates that allow a door to swing back and forth between the closed and the open position. This action allows easy access to the interior of a building, or once inside, the door hinges then allow interior doors to open and close with ease. When a door hinge is installed, a hinge plate is attached to both the door and the frame of the doorway to create the mechanism for the movement of the door. The key to the operation of a door hinge is the hinge pin, that long solid shaft that allows the door to pivot along the axis of the hinge pin. Without the hinge pin the door would be an immovable object.

  2. Jock, does it have to be fire rated? It’s not really an exterior door. Lemme explain…my building consists only of my apartment and one commercial space below me. At the building entrance is a door. Let’s label that Door #1. That door leads to the vestibule. There you are faced with two different doors. One goes to the commercial space. The other is for me only. We’ll call that Door #2. Behind Door #2 (which only I have a key to) is a stairwell. Up the stairs is a landing/hallway where you are faced with Door #3, the door that leads directly into my apartment. Door #3 is the one pictured above that has come unhinged. Door #2 is fire-rated. Does Door #3 have to be in this instance?

  3. Is the whole website unhinged? I can get on the forum but nowhere else.
    Until this person’s door is fixed — probably jinxed rest of brownstoner.

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