My shed door is warped can anybody help

[francesbean]

Over the winter my shed door has warped (Double door summer house type) One door won't shut properly. Its the one that closes second (ie on top of the other with a little lip thingy) I think it has got wet during the winter and swelled up. Can't shut it completely. Any of you handypersons out there know what I should do to help it to shut?

francesbean

[Matt94]

you could always plane the door down (the one that closes first)!

[Newton]

What's the warp factor captain.....is she breakin up?

[Aberdeenplotter]

Frances,

buy a new door. Seriously though warping can be an irreversible process but I would try drilling a few holes through each door in a straight line across the worst warped part. I'd put a bolt through a baton at the back through each hole, also through another baton at the front, then add a big washer over each bolt, apply a nut and tighten up. Thereafter, keep your fingers crossed and leave the whole thing for a couple of weeks. It may work and it may not when you remove the nuts bolts and batons

[Potstubsdustbins]

If you can put up with it for couple of weeks then do so it may well have just swollen not warped. In which case it will dry out and be OK. If this happens make sure you waterproof it before it gets wet again.

Colin

[donnakebab]

Oh to be a man!

[Aberdeenplotter]

Oh to be a man!

It's not all it's cracked up to be Donna

[Aberdeenplotter]

just as another thought, place a 6" concrete block on the ground between the middle of the warped door and the base of the shed. lean another concrete block against the edge of the door so that it puts pressure on the door and holds it firmly against the first concrete block. Then lean another concrete block against that one for good measure to apply even more pressure

[bearded bloke]

If swollen rater than warped,what Colin said ^^^^

[Aberdeenplotter]

or instead of the two outside concrete blocks borrow a sash clamp, turn the end so it connects with the fixed door and hook the other end onto the other door and then tighten the clamp so that is firmly under pressure. Release after a few weeks.

I'm assuming that because the OP says warped that the door is in fact warped.

[taff]

if it's properly warped, you'll need new doors. If it's just swollen, as above

[francesbean]

Thank you everyone who has replied, im going to check the warp factor vs swollen today.

Can't see how I can plane it (thought of that) as its got a little lip down the side where it closes against the other door. As for the bolts, battens and concrete blocks - blimey I find it difficult to find a screwdriver on the occassions I need one!

Cheers all

francesbean

[taff]

it's more likely to be swollen, you might be able to remove the lip and plane down, but if you plane it, don't do it too much because when it dries out, you might be left with a gap.
If you can, I'd leave it as it is, then seal it when it's completely dry again.

[vegnut]

As was said before, if left alone it may well return to its original state. My gate does this but in reverse, during the winter it closes ok and as soon as the summer arrives and it dries out it warps.

[Matt94]

i meant plane down the doot that doesnt have a lip - but as the others have said, it might be just swollen - leave it until summer, so that it dries out and iff its still swollem plane it down