Interior Door Suddenly Now Scraping Floor

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Interior door suddenly now scraping floor.

A dragging corner makes a door difficult to open and close. First check that everything is square. Houses settle over time which often causes a door to sag inside its frame. First run a piece of paper at the bottom of door to identify where is sticky.

Doors bind and scrape for several reasons but it s frequently due to loose hinges or slight movement in the building which throws door openings slightly out of square. Be careful not to cut the door too deep or too far. It sounds like perhaps the door frame is leaning in towards the bathroom or perhaps the bathroom floor slopes up a bit. Use a pencil or a label to mark where you need to sand down.

Sandpaper can be used for small rubbing problems while the belt sander or circular saw are ideal for more extreme door sticking issues. The dragging door corner can scrape the floor or threshold. Assuming the hinge screws are tight it may be that the only way to permanently fix the problkem is by rebuilding the door frame and or fix the slope in the floor.