Can anyone advise on this please, door handle problem quite urgent.

turnitround

After a couple of hours twisting, prodding, turning, pushing and a great deal of swearing the door is now open. Son arrived after his shift and added quite a bit of brute force and ignorance, mainly the latter. 

Hubby, who is disabled and therefore unable to help in any practical way 'assisted' from his chair. This meant he shouted instructions from the bottom of the stairs, bear in mind he couldn't even see the door, and every time I answered he shouted back 'What did you say' as he is also deaf. He does have an earing aid but as I've told him many times it will not help at all if it is just sat in the drawer rather than in his ear.

Anyway, the piece of wood was removed along with what is probably 17 coats of gloss. Ive never painted these doors since I moved in 18 months ago and so I feel a lot of sanding, filling and painting coming on. Thank you all for the help. 

Sarahspangles

Before you start sanding and filling I think you need a G&T

diystarter7

Hi

Thanks for the update.
Good luck,

cymruchris

turnitround said:

After a couple of hours twisting, prodding, turning, pushing and a great deal of swearing the door is now open. Son arrived after his shift and added quite a bit of brute force and ignorance, mainly the latter. 

Hubby, who is disabled and therefore unable to help in any practical way 'assisted' from his chair. This meant he shouted instructions from the bottom of the stairs, bear in mind he couldn't even see the door, and every time I answered he shouted back 'What did you say' as he is also deaf. He does have an earing aid but as I've told him many times it will not help at all if it is just sat in the drawer rather than in his ear.

Anyway, the piece of wood was removed along with what is probably 17 coats of gloss. Ive never painted these doors since I moved in 18 months ago and so I feel a lot of sanding, filling and painting coming on. Thank you all for the help. 

Is the iron still alive?

[Deleted User]

Hi,

well done, remember to fix the electrics.

CliveOfIndia

turnitround said:

After a couple of hours twisting, prodding, turning, pushing and a great deal of swearing the door is now open. Son arrived after his shift and added quite a bit of brute force and ignorance, mainly the latter. 

Hubby, who is disabled and therefore unable to help in any practical way 'assisted' from his chair. This meant he shouted instructions from the bottom of the stairs, bear in mind he couldn't even see the door, and every time I answered he shouted back 'What did you say' as he is also deaf. He does have an earing aid but as I've told him many times it will not help at all if it is just sat in the drawer rather than in his ear.

Anyway, the piece of wood was removed along with what is probably 17 coats of gloss. Ive never painted these doors since I moved in 18 months ago and so I feel a lot of sanding, filling and painting coming on. Thank you all for the help. 

Thanks for the update, and it's fantastic to hear of a successful outcome, well done you!

As a slight aside, if you're wanting to strip years of paint off a door (assuming the door is "nice" and solid wood and you're wanting to take it back to bare wood), consider sending them off to be dipped.  There are plenty of places all over that offer a dipping service, and it can save you hours of work for not too much money.

Depends what your end goal is, of course, but worth bearing in mind.  Probably not worth it if you're just wanting to make good a small area of damage.

turnitround

cymruchris said:

turnitround said:

After a couple of hours twisting, prodding, turning, pushing and a great deal of swearing the door is now open. Son arrived after his shift and added quite a bit of brute force and ignorance, mainly the latter. 

Hubby, who is disabled and therefore unable to help in any practical way 'assisted' from his chair. This meant he shouted instructions from the bottom of the stairs, bear in mind he couldn't even see the door, and every time I answered he shouted back 'What did you say' as he is also deaf. He does have an earing aid but as I've told him many times it will not help at all if it is just sat in the drawer rather than in his ear.

Anyway, the piece of wood was removed along with what is probably 17 coats of gloss. Ive never painted these doors since I moved in 18 months ago and so I feel a lot of sanding, filling and painting coming on. Thank you all for the help. 

Is the iron still alive?

Its in a better state than me. Wish I had never touched the damn thing!

cymruchris

turnitround said:

cymruchris said:

turnitround said:

After a couple of hours twisting, prodding, turning, pushing and a great deal of swearing the door is now open. Son arrived after his shift and added quite a bit of brute force and ignorance, mainly the latter. 

Hubby, who is disabled and therefore unable to help in any practical way 'assisted' from his chair. This meant he shouted instructions from the bottom of the stairs, bear in mind he couldn't even see the door, and every time I answered he shouted back 'What did you say' as he is also deaf. He does have an earing aid but as I've told him many times it will not help at all if it is just sat in the drawer rather than in his ear.

Anyway, the piece of wood was removed along with what is probably 17 coats of gloss. Ive never painted these doors since I moved in 18 months ago and so I feel a lot of sanding, filling and painting coming on. Thank you all for the help. 

Is the iron still alive?

Its in a better state than me. Wish I had never touched the damn thing!

The moral of this story is obviously that you should no longer iron your clothes. The risk is just too high.

(And as someone else mentioned - it might be a good time to refresh all your door handles so you don't experience anything similar anytime soon - those of the 'same model' will probably be a similar age, and will likely be wearing out in a similar way).

Le_Kirk

It wasn't ironing the clothes that was the issue, it was closing the door!  Reminds me of exactly the same issue many years ago when I got a call at work from Mrs Le_Kirk to say she was locked in the bedroom. I rushed home (fortunately I was in the office a few miles away and not on an overseas trip), took the handle off and had to manipulate the latch with my screwdriver and long nosed pliers. All handles changed very shortly thereafter! That was down to wear and strangely designed handle interiors.

JohnB47

CliveOfIndia said:

turnitround said:

After a couple of hours twisting, prodding, turning, pushing and a great deal of swearing the door is now open. Son arrived after his shift and added quite a bit of brute force and ignorance, mainly the latter. 

Hubby, who is disabled and therefore unable to help in any practical way 'assisted' from his chair. This meant he shouted instructions from the bottom of the stairs, bear in mind he couldn't even see the door, and every time I answered he shouted back 'What did you say' as he is also deaf. He does have an earing aid but as I've told him many times it will not help at all if it is just sat in the drawer rather than in his ear.

Anyway, the piece of wood was removed along with what is probably 17 coats of gloss. Ive never painted these doors since I moved in 18 months ago and so I feel a lot of sanding, filling and painting coming on. Thank you all for the help. 

Thanks for the update, and it's fantastic to hear of a successful outcome, well done you!

As a slight aside, if you're wanting to strip years of paint off a door (assuming the door is "nice" and solid wood and you're wanting to take it back to bare wood), consider sending them off to be dipped.  There are plenty of places all over that offer a dipping service, and it can save you hours of work for not too much money.

Depends what your end goal is, of course, but worth bearing in mind.  Probably not worth it if you're just wanting to make good a small area of damage.

Well, I wouldn't recommend that. All of the doors in our house have been removed and stripped by a previous owner and they're all warped like bananas.

None of them close without serious effort, so they all stay open.