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PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:48 pm 
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I do not hear clicking sound after i close the door and it gets easily open not just by pulling effortlessly but even from wind:



I was able to shut it successfully but only by putting efforts to close it properly. The problem is little askewed frame:



Cannot recall but i remember i had to do something with door when i moved in and since then i had that problem. I believe that metallic part which is supposed to enter that frame cannot fit into it properly because frame is not in proper shape and needs to be straightened. But should i attempt to straighten it with hammer or simply disassemble and buy a new frame?

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check the location off the bolt to the keep on the frame
close the door till the bolt hits the side off the framed draw a line along the top and bottom off the bolt onto the frame

open the door and check both lines are over the hole in the plate and not below it

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The latch doesn't appear to be protruding from the door.

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big-all wrote:
check the location off the bolt to the keep on the frame
close the door till the bolt hits the side off the framed draw a line along the top and bottom off the bolt onto the frame

open the door and check both lines are over the hole in the plate and not below it




Okay, i think i remember why i did this. Initially it was similar problem. The bolt was farther from frame and could not fully enter it which made door not close properly (here we go again). That is why relative bent it, but as you can see, it now hardly enters into frame at all:

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Seems to me that i should bend only the region where bolt enters and all the rest make straight, but how to do this?

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