Shed Door Droop Fix - The turnbuckle twist by VOGMAN
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2018
- Does your shed door droop? Does your workshop door sag? Wont your garage door open or close properly? Use a turnbuckle to permanently fix it.
Door sag thanks to time and gravity, their hinges letting out a little and the boards shrinking. This makes them difficult to open. Locks and bolts don't align properly.
Adjusting the lateral brace every few years is a solution but it's fiddly.
A turnbuckle offers and easy fix that allows for SIMPLE FAST adjustment whenever it's needed. In just seconds your door can be aligned properly once more.
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I just built a small shed for my trash can that I have on the patio, BUT the door was sagging. Your video helped me big time! It worked!! :) Thank you!!!!!
Brilliant! I have never thought of using threaded rods to replace steel wire. This is very smart and will restore my sagging gate again. Thank you!
It works great. You still get droop over time (maybe every 6 months), but just a tiny twist of the turnbuckle pulls everything back to true.
Great tip. I'm building a huge double-door for my barn (tractor & equipment winter storage, large indoor shop in the summer). I'd prefer overlapping sliding doors, but circumstances don't allow that, so it has to be doors that swing on hinges. Each door is 11 feet high and almost 8 wide. Frame will be 2x4's. I'm using metal roofing/siding material for the face -- saves weight, and matches the rest of the barn. I can't afford the weight of a full inner skin of OSB, too much weight, but I'll use good-size corner gussets to provide some lateral stability. Each door will weigh between 250 and 300 pounds. I'll use your turnbuckle approach to alleviate sagging. I've been able to find good quality, heavy-duty turnbuckles (700 lb working load limit) and threaded rod. The one thing I haven't been able to find is the super-heavy-duty right-angle bracket you used. Any ideas on sources?
Very clever solution. I was wondering what your view would be for fixing a leaning 8x6 pent shed using your method. Would the pressure be too great for this kind of application?
It's a really usefull tip!
But in the first place, your diagonal should have been the other way L top exterior of the door to the bottom hinge. That way the weight would have benn transfered directly to the frame, with no sagging.
Thank you very much for this video. I did mine last week. Sadly I can't post a picture but it worked perfectly. It was a little bit tricky finding a turnbuckle which had a left handed hook thread instead of a left handed eye bolt but once i did, I braught an extra one for when the other door inevitably sags. Thanks again 👌
Glad it helped!
Very nice solution!
Many thanks
Splended! What an useful thing to do!
Glad it was helpful!
useful info. must get a turnbuckle. thanks. from paul U.K.
You'll be surprised how easy it is and how well it works : )
thanks for the video . have a shed just a few months old ( lol) Already had the guys out that built it to sort the doors . One day it looked like i'd have to put a draft excluder (its a double door ) to cover the gap between the doors ,a few days later i cant shut them without loosening the inside bolts ,shoving the doors together and bolting it from the outside . Have checked the levels and all seems ok so will definitely try this . Once again thanks for the video . cheers
Glad to help
Would this solve leaning shed problem too?
Ahha! Just what I need to fix the gate on my back fence - if the wife sees this I am in trouble. Damn she has already seen it. Blast off to the hardware store for turn buckle. Martin
A skilled man like you could fashion something extraordinary I've no doubt : )
I have an Old Victorian front door that is bowed at the top, would this process work do you think?
Hi William. Are you sure it's bowed? Or has it simply dropped on its hinges (the weight of the door physically stretches the hinges over time - as well as the door panels moving).
If it's a bow, this technique probably won't do it. I dropping hinge, yes... but it might be an eyesore on an old Victorian door.
Excellent video. We have very large barn doors that were hand made 17 years ago by our cabin builder. There are two swing out doors. Each door is about 6’ wide by 12’ tall. They’ve been sagging for several years now and they are very heavy. There is no diagonal bracing. We were considering adding an additional strap/pinkle at the top since the first strap is about a foot lower than the top of the door. Wondering if this method could work for us with such large doors. Do you think using wire with the turnbuckle instead of a rod would work?
Yes, I believe it would. Plus it would offer you the benefit of occasional adjustment with the very slightest of turns.
With the size of the doors you mention, I'd recommend getting the thickest rod and turnbuckle you can find. And go easy when first installing... it's amazing the difference just a 1/4 turn can make 😁
@@vogman We will give it a try and let you know. Thanks for the video and idea!
@@vogman We added this to our garage barn door yesterday and it did pick up the door from dragging on the ground and it is closing much better now. I used an 1/8" wire rope cable instead of a rod with a large 8” turnbuckle and 3 saddle clips on either end of the wire. We will see how it holds up over time. Thank you again for the video.
I need to do this on a vinyl gate. I hope it will work without stripping the vinyl,
Just drill before you screw : )
Would this also work with galvanised wire rope instead of the steel rods?
Yes, I think it would. The wire should tension nicely : )
What is the width of the rods you’ve used? Great vid BTW!
Thanks. I'm sure these were 10mm rods.
What kind of bracket is used in this process? I’m trying to do this to my shed but I can’t find that bracket
I just used two strong L brackets. They're fairly heavy duty and maybe 2 inches (50mm) in length, but it works great.
If that's how you left the eye bolt, you WILL have to adjust the turnbuckle again soon. The eye bolt in the door needs to be oiriented so that it points the same direction as the rod, otherwise, the tension of the rod will eventually turn it that way until the tension is lost or the eyebolt won't turn that direction anymore. Orienting the eyebolt makes that impossible. The hole that you put the eyebolt into worries me a little. It's pretty close to the edge of the wood, and may split out. I would have drilled the hole on the other side of Sod's screw. If you can come up with another plate like the one at the bottom, I'd use that instead of drilling another 10mm hole, unless you're willing to replace the cross member on the door. An eyebolt or a quick-link for chain can be fitted to the plate if it helps. Good solution for a door that may need repeated adjustments though. I love those turnbuckles.
Hi Ron. Always good to hear from you.
I think the close-up nature of the video probably makes things look worse than they are. There's plenty of meat there to support the eye-bolt which is very snug and happy.
As for tension, amazingly I was expecting things to be as taught as a guitar string, but that's not the case at all. Obviously there's tension, otherwise the door wouldn't re-align, but enough to twist the eye bolt? No. That's very firmly in place and of course the tension applied to the buckle was by hand. I may have hands like a gorilla (but more hairy) but I'm not that strong : )
In the few weeks it's been done, the doors been opened and closed perhaps a hundred times. It's had rain, wind, frost and the smallest bit of sun (this is the UK) and so far no change. Will it sag further? Undoubtedly. Maybe eventually I'll need to get a spanner on the buckle to add tension. But for now, it's all good.
Thank uuuuuuu
No worries 😁
Love the "Sod's Law" comment @ 4:07
Glad you enjoyed it : )
Me too. Made me laugh out loud!
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just reverse the lateral brace that wil do the trick it will bring the weight ot the door to the lower hinge
Hi Hans. I've tried that in the past without success. I've even tried the X brace approach. Ultimately sagging has occured.
Strange but true : )
AMAZING...!!!
I'm going to try this on my shed door at the weekend.
Sods law, brilliant, I've run into that twat on many occasions.
Don't over-turn it. It's amazing how just a little turn can really pull the door back into shape 😁
I just built a small shed for my trash can that I have on the patio, BUT the door was sagging. Your video helped me big time! It worked!! :) Thank you!!!!!
That's great : )
Remember, it will droop slightly again with age and seasonal changes, but just a tiny twist on the turnbuckle will have it back inline.
All the best.