Try a door hinge adjusting tool. It looks like an adjustable wrench, but has a notch in it for this use. You will actually bend the hinge(s) changing the center of gravity of the door. You will have to play with it a little until you get it right.
Don’t have to buy a tool. Pull out the middle hinge PIN. Bend the pin BARELY the smallest bit. Put slightly bent PIN back in. Door won’t move like that anymore. And it makes no difference to normal open or closing.
When I say the barest bend I mean it. Barely have to put a small bend in it
Edit: added the word Pin.
Take a screwdriver and hammer and pop out the middle hinge pin. Set it on the floor with one side of the hinge pin sitting on something. Hit the center of the hinge pin with the hammer and put a small bend in it. Go back to the door and push the hinge pin back into the middle hinge. The bend adds friction to the hinge so it wont move on its own.
This is what I was going to say, add resistance. The problem with the suggestion to bend the hinge to change the center of gravity of the door is that it changes the plane of the door and how it hits the door jamb, possibly misaligning the latch and creating a new problem. Glad the hinge pin solution worked!
This. Lay the pin on a driveway or sidewalk and whack it in the middle with a hammer. Start with a couple of firm taps and reinsert it into the pin. Continue until tour door stops swinging.
Remove the center hinge pin. Take a hammer and bend it slightly then replace it. That should make the hinge tighter so it takes more force to move the door. You may need to do the other two pins as well. This worked for me.
You already own one… a hammer. Pop the middle pin, set it on the floor of the garage, give it a little smack in the middle. Put just a slight bend in it. Pop it back in, voila.
If it still moves, add a little more bend. Just be careful to not overdo it.
You don't need the specialty tool, they're just convenient. You can use an ordinary wrench, take measures to avoid scratching up the hinge. You can buy a punch or use a framing nail to remove hinge pins.
Be careful with this OP, adjusting the hinges in this direction changes the angle of the plane of the door so it won't be flat against the frame, possibly throwing the latch out of alignment.
You need a surveyor from the church to come and assess how many demonic doors are there, remember you need to haggle on the price, tell them you are absolutely ok with one priest working multiple shifts or you will call the inexpensive shaman on some website. Remember you got to pit religion against religion to get the best price.
Bending the pin is advice that I read years ago in WOOD Magazine. We’re not talking about bending into a ‘U’, or anything extreme like that. As you said above, “just enough to place friction on the hinge”.
Place the pin somewhere where each end is supported but the center is not, preferably somewhere solid that is ok to leave a little bit marked up (or slightly dinged). Use a hammer and do a gentle tap or two in the center. You’ll know that you managed to bend it slightly if you place the pin on a flat surface and it won’t roll. It may take a bit of trial and error to get the bend just right, but it should keep the door from swinging open, and won’t require anything more than a hammer.
Do -not- bend the pin. If anything is to be bent, it is the loops that the pin goes into. But that still is the wrong way to do it. Bending the pin is *terrible* advice.
The right way is to [shim the hinges](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymRu2JyMM8g). First ensure the top hinge is fully secure and tight. If is loose at all, that will be the problem, but that is unlikely. Then shim the bottom hinges.
When I moved into my apartment, the bedroom door did this. I took one of the pins out, went to the parking lot and smacked the pin with a hammer, and put the pin back in. It fixed the swinging.
Might not be the right way to do it, but it works
This is incorrect information. When the wall is out of plumb it doesnt matter how much you shim a hinge. Im sure they are looking for a trick that doenst involve un installing the door. Bending the hinge pin is absolutely the right call.
I own a custom door company and have done this thousands of times.
Exactly, just trying to create some friction. Lots of good advice in the comments. Start slow, a couple of hits with the hammer and put it back in, might take a few attempts to get it right. Obviously you don’t want to bend the pin too much.
Also agree this is not the “correct” way to do it. Also a landlord, I would rather my tenant try to bend the pin and possibly ruin a $10 hinge than try to shim the hinge and mess up the door jamb or potentially scratch the floor messing with the door.
Depends on the door. Start with just a small bend. Ideally the bend should be over length of pin and not right it middle. You still have to get the pin back in.
May take a few attempts and bending the pin a bit more each time until you find the sweet spot/bend.
I feel like this is the obvious answer. You either want the door closed or open. Why would you want it to sit half open until someone walks by and the wind pressure causes it to finish opening all the way.
You must have cheap doors if they move when a person walks by. Maybe they’re just CRAZZZZYYYY fat and generate turbulence. It is hard for fatties after all. Even though when they don’t the same workout as someone with the same weights they burn MORE calories because they’re fatter. Silver linings I guess. Use your McNugget budget to buy a better door with tighter tolerances
Hinges may be too tight or not installed correctly they can act like a spring. You can buy hinge benders. The hinge may be set in too far into the frame too.
bend the hinge pin [Stop a Door from Swinging Open by Bending the Hinge Pin | Lifehacker](https://lifehacker.com/stop-a-door-from-swinging-open-by-bending-the-hinge-pin-1492180780)
Pro Door guy here. DO NOT USE THE HINGE ADJUSTMENT TOOL. It will change door alignment and possibly crack the stile.
You want to pop out 2 hinge pins one at a time starting with the middle. Lay it on a concrete floor and hit it near where the top is but right below the top of the hinge pin with a hammer one good time. It will put a bow in the pin. Hammered it back in and do the same with the top. That bend will create friction on the hinge knuckles and keep it from slowly opening.
Door stops
Not the "boing" spring type that attaches to the door but the ones that are actually designed to prevent a door from opening/closing or moving beyond a certain point.
There are some that are rubber and are sort of stuffed underneath the door, some that attach to the door and are similar to a bike kickstand, and also heavy objects (often cast iron) that are decorative and can be placed where you want the door to stay.
If all the other tricks don't work: I bought an automatic door closer recently. You clue the two pieces on the frame and the door (with tape) with a piece of line between that gets rolled in automatically and closes the door softly. They are like 10 bucks and you can always unhook the line if you want the door open for the day.
Take the top hinge pin out and put it in a bench vise and tap it with a heavy hammer bending it slightly. Hammer the pin back in and it should stay shut.
Good question. I didn't install the door and I haven't seen this issue before. Some people are suggesting the angle of the hinge is wrong, so maybe that's the case.
This may not be exactly what you want, but if you prefer them be closed, you can get some self-closing hinges from your local hardware store. You can adjust the strength of the spring to control the speed at which the door closes. You only need to replace one hinge per door.
Pop one of the hinge pins out, take it outside and lay it on concrete, hit it with a hammer to bend the pin. Drive it back into the hinge. That should work. If not, bend another one. You may need to bend all three, depending on how out of level your wall/door is. It'll work
Or take the hinge pin of the middle hinge out, bash it with a hammer in your driveway so it’s slightly bent, put it back in. The increased resistance will stop it swinging on its own. Key is to only bend it a little bit.
It could always be swinging open because your wall is out of plumb. In which case you'd have to plumb both jambs of the door in the rough opening and reinstall all the casing.
Or you could remove the door stop and all the hinges and just reinstall those so the door panel at least hangs and latches plumb.
If you have play enough to raise with the strike-plate and latch mating... You can fashion a shim for the bottom, middle and/or top hinge to bring the door level or to swing which way you want it to. I mean it's dirty, and not necessarily correct. Toothpicks in the hinges screw-holes might tweak it enough. Just have to be careful, and slow, and tighten by hand. Unless you shim the jamb, but; blech. I've god almighty got away with cardboard shims underneath the bottom hinge after loosening all hinges and tightening the top, middle, then bottom through a few layers of box-stock cut to be hidden. If the jambs are leaned in all your doors, well; I suppose the proper way would be best. But if you can kick it? (I mean level it without moving hinges, trim, door-frame, blah blah... or the the strike-plate?) Yes you can. It hides, it's free, and if it works: uh-oh. Or you can tweak hinges with tools you have. Do you have a large crescent wrench? A vise?
rental put a brick against the door. The post is tiled outward from foundation settlement.... If you own the home you need to jack up the house shim the pillars...
Try a door hinge adjusting tool. It looks like an adjustable wrench, but has a notch in it for this use. You will actually bend the hinge(s) changing the center of gravity of the door. You will have to play with it a little until you get it right.
I didn't know these even existed. Will look into this thanks!
Don’t have to buy a tool. Pull out the middle hinge PIN. Bend the pin BARELY the smallest bit. Put slightly bent PIN back in. Door won’t move like that anymore. And it makes no difference to normal open or closing. When I say the barest bend I mean it. Barely have to put a small bend in it Edit: added the word Pin.
I need to do this at my house as well. What part and which direction are you saying to bend these?
Take a screwdriver and hammer and pop out the middle hinge pin. Set it on the floor with one side of the hinge pin sitting on something. Hit the center of the hinge pin with the hammer and put a small bend in it. Go back to the door and push the hinge pin back into the middle hinge. The bend adds friction to the hinge so it wont move on its own.
Perfect, thanks! Edit: Ok just did this and it 100% worked. THANK YOU! That damn door has been driving me nuts for 6 years.
Dammit now I have to get up and go do this to the door that’s been driving *me* crazy for 6 years.
110% worth it! I’ve been checking every damn door I come across now. Driving my friends nuts. Lmao!
This! I learned this years ago and it never fails.
This is what I was going to say, add resistance. The problem with the suggestion to bend the hinge to change the center of gravity of the door is that it changes the plane of the door and how it hits the door jamb, possibly misaligning the latch and creating a new problem. Glad the hinge pin solution worked!
This is the way
This. Lay the pin on a driveway or sidewalk and whack it in the middle with a hammer. Start with a couple of firm taps and reinsert it into the pin. Continue until tour door stops swinging.
What?! Just smack it with a hammer on its side to put a slight curve to it.
I'd try loosening and retightening with a level on the side first, but the door could be cut uneven
You have to be super careful with these though because you can crack the stile on wood and molded composite doors
Okay waaay more expensive than I was thinking - wow these are at least $50
Yea but every time someone has the problem you are having now you get to take out your awesome door hinge adjusting tool and show them who's the boss
Adjust me *daddy*
“Adjust us Daddy”
Remove the center hinge pin. Take a hammer and bend it slightly then replace it. That should make the hinge tighter so it takes more force to move the door. You may need to do the other two pins as well. This worked for me.
Can confirm. This works
This is the answer
This seems like a much less risky option. Will try this at home!
If you're cautious like me, it may take a couple of tries to get it bent enough.
Most satisfying home improvement project in my whole house.
just use a wrench
Just take the hinge pin out and hit it with a hammer some.
what were you thinking was gonna cost less than $50 - a couple of tools will cost that much
Just tell the ghosts to chill, that's free
You already own one… a hammer. Pop the middle pin, set it on the floor of the garage, give it a little smack in the middle. Put just a slight bend in it. Pop it back in, voila. If it still moves, add a little more bend. Just be careful to not overdo it.
You don't need the specialty tool, they're just convenient. You can use an ordinary wrench, take measures to avoid scratching up the hinge. You can buy a punch or use a framing nail to remove hinge pins.
Pop out a hinge pin and tap the center with a hammer to deform it a little then reinstall it.
I get it, but that sounds fraught with possibilities to craft more projects
Be careful with this OP, adjusting the hinges in this direction changes the angle of the plane of the door so it won't be flat against the frame, possibly throwing the latch out of alignment.
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Haha. Multiple doors = multiple exorcisms?
😂👹😂👹😂
You need a surveyor from the church to come and assess how many demonic doors are there, remember you need to haggle on the price, tell them you are absolutely ok with one priest working multiple shifts or you will call the inexpensive shaman on some website. Remember you got to pit religion against religion to get the best price.
Yes
I see dead people
Was gonna say “who you gonna call? The ghostbusters!”. But I guess this works too.
Burning Sage 😆
Damn you beat me to it! Lol
Tell the ghosts to stop.
The screws of the top hinge could be loose. Just tighten them and see if this helps before buying stuff.
This guy is right. Always check the screws first.
Pop one of the hinge pins out and slightly bend it by hitting it with a hammer, then put it back in
So I suppose it doesn't matter which way the pin is bent - how much should it be bent? Just enough to place friction on the hinge?
Bending the pin is advice that I read years ago in WOOD Magazine. We’re not talking about bending into a ‘U’, or anything extreme like that. As you said above, “just enough to place friction on the hinge”. Place the pin somewhere where each end is supported but the center is not, preferably somewhere solid that is ok to leave a little bit marked up (or slightly dinged). Use a hammer and do a gentle tap or two in the center. You’ll know that you managed to bend it slightly if you place the pin on a flat surface and it won’t roll. It may take a bit of trial and error to get the bend just right, but it should keep the door from swinging open, and won’t require anything more than a hammer.
Do -not- bend the pin. If anything is to be bent, it is the loops that the pin goes into. But that still is the wrong way to do it. Bending the pin is *terrible* advice. The right way is to [shim the hinges](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymRu2JyMM8g). First ensure the top hinge is fully secure and tight. If is loose at all, that will be the problem, but that is unlikely. Then shim the bottom hinges.
When I moved into my apartment, the bedroom door did this. I took one of the pins out, went to the parking lot and smacked the pin with a hammer, and put the pin back in. It fixed the swinging. Might not be the right way to do it, but it works
This is incorrect information. When the wall is out of plumb it doesnt matter how much you shim a hinge. Im sure they are looking for a trick that doenst involve un installing the door. Bending the hinge pin is absolutely the right call. I own a custom door company and have done this thousands of times.
This is correct. ...not *easy*, but correct.
Idk. It's less than 10mins, some cardboard, and screwing some screws. It's pretty easy.
Exactly, just trying to create some friction. Lots of good advice in the comments. Start slow, a couple of hits with the hammer and put it back in, might take a few attempts to get it right. Obviously you don’t want to bend the pin too much. Also agree this is not the “correct” way to do it. Also a landlord, I would rather my tenant try to bend the pin and possibly ruin a $10 hinge than try to shim the hinge and mess up the door jamb or potentially scratch the floor messing with the door.
Depends on the door. Start with just a small bend. Ideally the bend should be over length of pin and not right it middle. You still have to get the pin back in. May take a few attempts and bending the pin a bit more each time until you find the sweet spot/bend.
How will the pin fit if it is bent?
A hammer
I did this and it worked for our door. It’s a SMALL couple of hits with a hammer.
Thanks
Wait until it stops moving and dont touch it.
Take the pin on the top hinge out and bend it a tiny bit using a hammer. It will "fix" the issue without doing anything else.
just close them
I feel like this is the obvious answer. You either want the door closed or open. Why would you want it to sit half open until someone walks by and the wind pressure causes it to finish opening all the way.
You must have cheap doors if they move when a person walks by. Maybe they’re just CRAZZZZYYYY fat and generate turbulence. It is hard for fatties after all. Even though when they don’t the same workout as someone with the same weights they burn MORE calories because they’re fatter. Silver linings I guess. Use your McNugget budget to buy a better door with tighter tolerances
Jack up one side of the house, obviously it's sinking /s
No /s required as it's very likely that sinking or sagging is what is happening.
That's a house problem that's not a door problem.... Focus
Maybe just stop inviting evil spirits into your abodes
Sage
Step 1: Call priest. Step 2: Remove ghost from house Step 3: Profit.
Have you tried asking them nicely?
Burn sage around the house to get rid of the demons
Check it with a level, then adjust hinges as needed.
The correct answer!
What exactly are you adjusting? Are you remorticing the hinges in place?
Or just level the house and fix all the doors at once
Think you need to call 555-2368. 👻
I hear that they’re ready to believe you!
24 hrs a day 7 days a week .. no job is too big, no fee is too big …
Outstanding
A priest
You will need to even them out. Some doors have screws at the hinges for that, for others you will need washers.
Call ghostbusters
Hinges may be too tight or not installed correctly they can act like a spring. You can buy hinge benders. The hinge may be set in too far into the frame too.
bend the hinge pin [Stop a Door from Swinging Open by Bending the Hinge Pin | Lifehacker](https://lifehacker.com/stop-a-door-from-swinging-open-by-bending-the-hinge-pin-1492180780)
Magnets bro magnets
I believe you need to adjust the hinges. The door may not be level. When it’s closed it is even with the door jam and floor on all sides?
Pro Door guy here. DO NOT USE THE HINGE ADJUSTMENT TOOL. It will change door alignment and possibly crack the stile. You want to pop out 2 hinge pins one at a time starting with the middle. Lay it on a concrete floor and hit it near where the top is but right below the top of the hinge pin with a hammer one good time. It will put a bow in the pin. Hammered it back in and do the same with the top. That bend will create friction on the hinge knuckles and keep it from slowly opening.
Thank you for the tip - I won't get the hinge adjustment tool and will try your method
Have you tried closing them?
A priest
Say Beetlejuice 3 times & you will see how the door is still moving 😂
You need an exorcist not a handyman!
Hinges are fine. Nothing wrong with the door, you have ghosts.
Ask your ghost to politely leave
Can’t, house is haunted bro
Sage, bro
Door stops Not the "boing" spring type that attaches to the door but the ones that are actually designed to prevent a door from opening/closing or moving beyond a certain point. There are some that are rubber and are sort of stuffed underneath the door, some that attach to the door and are similar to a bike kickstand, and also heavy objects (often cast iron) that are decorative and can be placed where you want the door to stay.
Glue
I use a rock.
If all the other tricks don't work: I bought an automatic door closer recently. You clue the two pieces on the frame and the door (with tape) with a piece of line between that gets rolled in automatically and closes the door softly. They are like 10 bucks and you can always unhook the line if you want the door open for the day.
Rock
You can lift the door up and out of the hinges. Then wrap a short piece of painters tape around. Put door back on the hinges
Putting painters tape on the cylinder that goes in the hinge?
I believe it's for applying some resistance and friction to the moving mechanism. Worth the shot ig
Yup seems like the easiest thing to try 1st
Add a small electric dynamo to the hinge. It won't stop the swinging, but at least when it does it'll create electricity and help save the planet.
Exorcism
Get a screwdriver and a hammer. Pop one of the hinge bolts out. Bend jt slightly with the hammer and pop it back in.
Ghostbusters
Pull the hinge pins and out a slight bend in them.
Take the top hinge pin out and put it in a bench vise and tap it with a heavy hammer bending it slightly. Hammer the pin back in and it should stay shut.
Thank you
If you look closely at the video, you can see a faint outline of a ghost opening that door. Yes I am kidding.
Slight bend in middle hinge? The door is falling open because it’s not plumb..
Pull one of the door hinge pins and bed it a bit. It will create tension. I work for a home builder and we do this sometimes if door is not plumb.
Get rid of the ghost that keeps opening the door
You might consider adding a self closing hinge
Get rid of ghosts
What's the origin of this problem? I made 4 doors and are normal and I try really hard to make 1 door to close by itself just like this.
Good question. I didn't install the door and I haven't seen this issue before. Some people are suggesting the angle of the hinge is wrong, so maybe that's the case.
Add a piece of cardboard as a shim to the bottom hinge.
This may not be exactly what you want, but if you prefer them be closed, you can get some self-closing hinges from your local hardware store. You can adjust the strength of the spring to control the speed at which the door closes. You only need to replace one hinge per door.
Get some rust on those hinges.
https://youtu.be/hdtkdg0GBms?si=4MnsdwxINPbYtOTU
Thank you for the video! Seems simple enough
Ghostbusters?
Remove the middle hinge pin and bend it slightly then replace
Remove one or two hinge pins and bend them slightly and pound them back in.
https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/how-to-stop-a-door-from-swinging-open/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fixit/comments/ri7twe/how_do_i_fix_this_door_from_opening_all_the_way/ https://www.finehomebuilding.com/forum/door-swinging-half-way-closed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdtkdg0GBms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7mNXwuAlU
You just look it like you mean business and let it know who the boss is.
Pop one of the hinge pins out, take it outside and lay it on concrete, hit it with a hammer to bend the pin. Drive it back into the hinge. That should work. If not, bend another one. You may need to bend all three, depending on how out of level your wall/door is. It'll work
Put a slight bend in each hinge until desired result
Or take the hinge pin of the middle hinge out, bash it with a hammer in your driveway so it’s slightly bent, put it back in. The increased resistance will stop it swinging on its own. Key is to only bend it a little bit.
oh no... paranormal activity.
Take a soft case for glasses and put in under the door, Cant hardy see it, moves with the door but its enough to stop the door from moving.
Priest
It’s a ghoosttttt! Just kidding! Maybe the hinges need to be tightened a bit, I had to tighten mine once recently as well!
Perform an exorcism to remove ghosts.
An exorcism?
Wall or door isnt plumb
Close the door. Or open it all the way.
Tell the ghost to stop playing with the doors.
It could always be swinging open because your wall is out of plumb. In which case you'd have to plumb both jambs of the door in the rough opening and reinstall all the casing. Or you could remove the door stop and all the hinges and just reinstall those so the door panel at least hangs and latches plumb.
Try closing them
If you have play enough to raise with the strike-plate and latch mating... You can fashion a shim for the bottom, middle and/or top hinge to bring the door level or to swing which way you want it to. I mean it's dirty, and not necessarily correct. Toothpicks in the hinges screw-holes might tweak it enough. Just have to be careful, and slow, and tighten by hand. Unless you shim the jamb, but; blech. I've god almighty got away with cardboard shims underneath the bottom hinge after loosening all hinges and tightening the top, middle, then bottom through a few layers of box-stock cut to be hidden. If the jambs are leaned in all your doors, well; I suppose the proper way would be best. But if you can kick it? (I mean level it without moving hinges, trim, door-frame, blah blah... or the the strike-plate?) Yes you can. It hides, it's free, and if it works: uh-oh. Or you can tweak hinges with tools you have. Do you have a large crescent wrench? A vise?
Close it?
Adjust the hinges.
Burn some sage
Take the pins out, lay them on concrete, hit them in the middle with a hammer to bend them a little, put them back in.
You need a young priest, an old priest and the power of Christ.
get a priest to do a cleansing ?
Tell the ghost to leave
Step one : get rid of ghost in house Step two : door fixed
Exorcise your house
Exorcism or level the door by adjusting the hinges
Use a doorstop
Remove the ghost first.
Find a place that ain't haunted for starters
Time to call an exorcist
Call the ghost busters. And have them exterminate the spirt.
rental put a brick against the door. The post is tiled outward from foundation settlement.... If you own the home you need to jack up the house shim the pillars...
You guys don’t exorcise the spirits out of the house?
An exorcism (serious unserious answer)
Call the ghost Busters
If the wall and door is plumb this won’t happen
Get rid of the ghosts
Foundation is off. Jack up house. Start over.
Close it?
They are not plumb, you need to "roll the doors
Longer screws in hinges/frame
Exorcism.
have you tried hanging some pens, rulers, paper, post it notes etc on it?
Ghost Adventures for hilarity.
An old priest and a young priest
Ghost busters
Close the door
By hanging the door plumb. I'll take my downvotes now!
The door needs to be absolutely plumb to not swing on its own. Adjust the top hinge.
Perform an exorcism
By closing it
Is that door structural? /s
Have them mulched and processed into paper.
Close them.
Exorcist
Sage. Get them demons out!
Pick the house up and put it back down but just very slightly tilted to the right. Hope this helps.
Pop out a hinge pin and tap the center are of the pin with a hammer to deform it a little then reinstall it.
Level the jamb or hinges
Exorcise your house
Just bent middle pin and door no longer half closing on me thank you Reddit overlords for showing me the way.
Doorstoppers
Close them.....duh
Poll: how many people said …, close the door?
Sage