The hardware store could not find a suitable bracket. The golden weight saved the day

Hello, friends.

You, of course, already know about my love for non-standard constructive solutions. I am sincerely convinced that each of them has its own practical meaning.

Today I will tell you how a golden pound weight helped me out. You will learn how to put door stops and why incorrect installation can ruin your, perhaps not the cheapest, door.

Where did all the fuss begin?

I needed a door stop for the balcony door. It opens at me towards the balcony. There is nothing behind the door that the sash could rest against. Someday a chair will appear there, but so far it is far away, and the door is already breaking the slope at every opening.

It is not possible to install a standard stop-pin there. I will not go into details. Believe me, it won't work. I saw only one solution.

The only possible option

A folding stop would help me out. A bracket with a hinged leg is installed on the door itself. These are often installed on the front door of cafes and restaurants. Well, you get the idea.

Unfortunately, the store only had thin-leg brackets. This doesn't suit me. Linoleum will die very quickly. We needed a stop with a large rubber knob at the end of the leg. And this, alas, was not.

Then one thought came to mind: I have a weight in my garage. Isn't it an emphasis? Try to move it... And it is not necessary to fix it to the floor. This is exactly what I need. It remains to work on the appearance.

When it came to painting, for some reason I remembered the words of Panikovsky from The Golden Calf: "saw, Shura, a weight, saw - it is golden." No sooner said than done.

Why standard stops break doors

Everything is great if you put the door stop correctly. But many put on as one friend advised me. You, he says, just screw the rubber knob onto the slope. It will absorb shock when opening. Would you do that too?

The rubber absorbs shocks, of course. But the door will fly off its hinges in a week. Imagine what this looks like in terms of the leverage rule. The loops have a load that is multiples of that for which they are designed.

I agree, with the emphasis on the slope, the situation is greatly exaggerated. But at every step there are cases when people put a limiter in the middle of the door leaf, or even a third of the width of the leaf (from the hinges). And then they complain:

- Something the loops began to loosen.

- The doors sagged.

- The gaps between the canvas and the box have gone.

- Probably, the doors are bad.

These are not crappy doors, and the load on them is pretty much exceeded. The reason for this is often the limiter.

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