How To Fix A Interior Door Jamb
How to repair interior doors.
How to fix a interior door jamb. Pull the casing. Pry out the inside casing with a stiff putty knife then drive a 10d casing nail through the jamb and existing shim into the trimmer stud. Punch the nail slightly below the wood surface with a nail set then. Hopefully your not here because it happened to you.
If your door got kicked in due to a break in the most important thing is feeling secure again. You can usually fix a kick in door jamb by gluing it back together. Hold scrap wood block over the repair and use a hammer to tap the glued pieces tight to the jamb. This is really just another version of the hinge adjustment described above.
Insert the end of a putty knife between the loose casing on the doorknob side on the interior side of the door. Apply carpenter s glue to broken wood pieces and glue them back onto the jamb. Pull off any small splinters. A broken door frame doesn t require removal and replacement of the whole thing.
This video from bunnings will teach you how to remove a broken jamb and replace it. Draw in the jamb. By driving a long screw through the latch side of the jamb rather than the hinge side you can often draw in the jamb and give the door a little extra space. Carefully remove broken split pieces of wood from bottom of the side jamb.
Repeat to repair damage at the top of the side jamb.