My Glass Door Keeps Banging The Wall

How do i keep my hanging door decorations from banging on my door.

My glass door keeps banging the wall.

When it swings in it can hit the shower controls and my fear was breakage. This too will keep the door open and stop it hitting the wall. I ve placed them behind every door that opens onto a wall here in this house. To me an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure or in this case a pound of drywall repair mud.

I have french doors with a hole from the modern door latch. Closing the door takes no effort. Every morning when i was just going to b. Door stops and wall bumpers are a must if you want to keep your home looking beautiful.

It s like if someone stuck a giant glass wall between you and a place you wanted to go that normally is not blocked off. I want to install an antique vertical lock and latch glass knob door opener. Posted before as answer to another question but i think would work very well here if you were that way inclined with maybe a few variations. You wouldn t be able to recognize that there was a wall and would crash into it.

Check the gaskets to make sure that they are the correct thickness for your glass thickness. Just grab the door as you normally would as the magnet disengages. Door stops are like airbags for your walls. We carry a wide variety of door stops and wall bumpers in every finish and function.

Use denatured alcohol to clean the gaskets the glass and the part of the hinge plate that will touch the gasket. The fact is flies can t yet tell the difference between glass and an open window. There is nothing on the market for this. Close the door and hold a block of wood against the doorstop.

The most elegant fix. As i mentioned my favorite of the 3 ways to stop door from hitting wall is the stick on bump by far. This is a sturdy spring tipped with rubber that screws to the baseboard. If a new item in the enclosure recently triggered the glass surfing behavior the items should be put back to the way they were before the glass surfing started.

The magnet wall door stop consists of a short steel pole that screws on to the baseboard and a magnet that screws to the door itself. We just had a very expensive glass door installed in our shower and it swings in or out. When the wind blows they move and bang on my door. I had a similar problem in the 1970 s when i was working nights.

I took an all rubber door stop about 1 5 inches tall and used your technique to adhere it to the tile right next to the hinges. Then secure the door stop with 1 1 4 in. This may mean removing a new decoration from the tank or making sure a bearded dragon can t see a new reptile that was introduced into the home. Many hinges come with two sets of gaskets one for 3 8 or 10 mm and one for 1 2 or 12 mm.

Smack the wood until the door stop moves enough to touch the door. Nothing stands out worse than scratched or worn out spots right by the door from lack of protection.