Great video, very helpful. After watching I filed down the strike plate opening, problem solved.

Thank for this! I have two doors like this in my house and they were driving me nuts. A quick grind down and they work perfectly. I appreciate you! 👍🏼

I didn't know Billy Bob Thorton moonlighted as Bldg Maintenance....Learn something new every day.✌😎

You are such a life safer. I have been worried for last 2 days the simple common sense to lift the door worked the trick for me. Million thanks!

A good trick if your hinges are pulling free (it's almost always the top hinge); get a hollow-wall/drywall anchor (the kind that looks like a metal cone with a really aggressive spiral thread on it) and sink that into one of the screw holes *behind* the top hinge leaf on the door frame (not the door itself). Make sure the anchor is driven in far enough that it's flush. Then just replace the hinge, and drive a screw right into that anchor. It gives a lot of extra holding force, and is a great fix if a screw hole has wallowed out.

Great. Now can you please come to my house and do this 😅

Thank u so much that's the best advice yet I seen on tube for doors that don't shut.

I’m at a newly constructed property and have dealt with this with probably half the units. I bought the Milwaukee m12 die grinder and those rotary bits are worth their weight in gold!

Ah!! I didn’t think about tightening the hinges 0:53 . Perfect! Thanks!

I had to grind down the latch in an exterior fire code door that divides the kitchen/garage. Because exterior doors have steel frames, they're trickier to adjust, and messing with the hinges usually isn't an option. I've learned to hate doors over the years, you'd think by now someone would've figured something out beyond the 3 hinge standard door, but over time doors are something that haven't evolved much. That being said, grinding down the bottom of the latch usually does the trick.

Wife sees me with my golf clubs ....little does she know I just fixed our door

Worked, thank you, saved hiring a handyman!

Those rotary tool bits work wonders but I bought a new DeWalt drill to accommodate the bit. I was able to shave all the metal plates. Fixed all my doors in a few hours. A handyman wanted $550.00 The drill costs $99.00 and bit is $5.00. I did have to replace the bit. I also used a bit for wood to even out the space. Thanks

They do make over sized strike plates , longer holes wise.

Thanks for the bit link. I just ordered two. Sucks you can't make your normal in unit videos anymore.

Why can't manufacturers just make a strike plate a little over sized to allow for expansion and contraction of wood doors!! It happens on every door in my house when it gets humid. So frustrating.

Loose hinge. Golf tee. Done! 🎉

Great thumbnail photo!

If the 4 inch screw doesn’t work I usually just get a longer screw. Works every time.

Thanks mate. All useful and sensible.

If you were to move the striker plate as mentioned at 2:35 , how would you fill up the old screw hole that will be very close to the new adjusted screw hole?

It's SO freaking annoying. I spent a lot of money to get a new garage door leading into the house, because I got locked out, was drunk, and kicked the door in, breaking the entire frame. I hired these clowns to come out to replace the door and frame. They did a crap job, and the door kept opening on its own, and my pets would go out in the garage, and run out when I'd come home from work, and open the big garage door. Called the two clowns back that installed the door, and they won't return my call. I had a handyman out, and he tried the things you did, and it still won't stay shut. So I just had a deadbolt installed, and the problem was solved.

I have the fast cap knuckle bender. Its kinda hard to remember how the door moves when you tweak the hinges on door or the other ones on the hinge itself...i usually just use my die grinder and bit to shave down like you did, or if latch wont reach strike plate i add a second strike plate😂

I wonder how many times you can use that rotary bit on the metal strike plates before it dulls out?

How about an oversized striker plate?

Noticed my voltage is still low at the door bell chime where I have pro power kit hooked up. Does it take a while for the lil battery to charge up to build back up the voltage.

Great video !!! thanks

That was a good job 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thank you

I've got one. What if the door latched before, then I took the entire door knob mechanism apart to lubricate it, then upon putting it all back together, the door will not latch now? It's like I need (or lost) about 1/8 of length on the bolt, to pass further through the striker plate, to catch. It caught before, why not now? What am I missing?

Do you do product reviews? Like for this video, have you ever used that product called Screw it again or that product that is like a rough aluminum foil you stick in a hole?

My door latches, but you always got to make sure it locks

Couldn't you use an electric screw driver with that bit to grind it down?

I usually just filed down the latch and done

Yah I don’t want to do this every season when my house moves

You look like Billy Bob Thornton.