Wooden front door Warped!

short_frank

My wooden front door is warped with the bottom and top closing but I have to put pressure on the centre to close. It is only a year old and I really don't want to have to go through the bother of fighting to get it replaced. Is there any way of straigtening it?

Viking House

At the moment your door is belly out, you need to put the door in a belly in position for a few days by putting a clamp on it or by putting two pieces of wood at the top and the bottom where it meets the frame and closing it in the middle.
When your door straightens out seal it with varnish or paint, especially at the end grain at the bottom of the door.

GreeBo

If you can take it off, lay it warped side up on two blocks and weight it down in the middle until it warps back....

kadman

Part and parcel of using a natural element for your door. In the current warm climate we are enjoying, the outside face of the door is actually shrinking, and this is causing the warping at the moment. A couple of days rain , and it will probably return to its former state.

Depending on how well the door was weather proofed, will also affect its ability to move.

kadman

cormie

I've left 2 logs on a table top I'm making which is slightly warped over the long weekend. Hopefully it will be slightly flatter come Tuesday, what do yee reckon?

Wertz

It's scandalous the amount of hardwood doors that are fitted around the country without ever having any sealing coats applied to the endgrains, top and bottom...there might be 4 coats of stain/varnish/paint on the faces and sides but the part that absorbs the most moisture is as bare as the day the tree was felled.