How to stop a swinging door?

Colonel Claptrap

I have an internal wooden door between 2 rooms. When I open the door, it very gradually starts to swing closed again. It doesn't close fully but within 10 seconds will go from fully open to almost closed. There's no draft in either room, although one is colder than the other.

Every other door in the house remains in place when you open it.

It has 3 hinges, top middle and bottom. Each hinge has 8 screws, 4 in the door and 4 in the frame. I've tried loosening a screw here and there but it has no effect. Every screw was extremely tight when I took a look at it. None were loose.

Should I loosen all 8 bottom screws? Or maybe all top? How loose should I leave them?

Any ideas?

James 007

Take it off the hinges, cut it up and burn it

Ursummupet

Take off the hinges and hang onto them in case you decide to put another door up In the future.

tabby aspreme

If you have a level, put it against the frame on the hinge side , it is probably not plumb / vertical

decky1

mines the other way, won't stay closed, quare annoy'in .

the_pen_turner

door isn't hung plumb.

M.T.D

Closing the door will stop it swinging.
Swinging open or closed would not bother me it is doors that swing half way bug me.

Take one of the hinges off and beat it with a hammer, squeeze in a vice or other method of unpleasantness until it does not open and close freely, will stop the door moving on its own.

If door/door frame is only slightly out of true -
You could try packing the hinges (assuming you have enough clearance on lock side)
Unscrew the middle and bottom hinges from the door frame put two thicknesses of card (cornflake packet) behind bottom hinge and one piece behind middle hinge
or
Unscrew the top and bottom hinges from the door frame put a piece of card (cornflake packet) behind bottom hinge and chisel out thickness from behind top hinge

or move top hinge out on door frame and bottom hinge in (assuming you have enough clearance to doorstop).

Or a combination of packing and moving hinges.
BTW no warranty is given or implied with these suggestions

the_pen_turner

M.T.D wrote: »

Closing the door will stop it swinging.
Swinging open or closed would not bother me it is doors that swing half way bug me.

Take one of the hinges off and beat it with a hammer, squeeze in a vice or other method of unpleasantness until it does not open and close freely, will stop the door moving on its own.

If door/door frame is only slightly out of true -
You could try packing the hinges (assuming you have enough clearance on lock side)
Unscrew the middle and bottom hinges from the door frame put two thicknesses of card (cornflake packet) behind bottom hinge and one piece behind middle hinge
or
Unscrew the top and bottom hinges from the door frame put a piece of card (cornflake packet) behind bottom hinge and chisel out thickness from behind top hinge

or move top hinge out on door frame and bottom hinge in (assuming you have enough clearance to doorstop).

Or a combination of packing and moving hinges.
BTW no warranty is given or implied with these suggestions

fiddling with it that way will only work if its out of plumb in one plane ( door frame not square and plumb) the plume the other way is just as important. and harder to adjust like your doing. any changes will leave an unsightly gap.

BrokenArrows

If its such a slight swing that it takes 10 minutes to close then all it should take is to very slightly loosen the screws on the top or bottom hinge. The screws that go into the frame. You will need a bit of trial and error. And by very slight i mean a 1/4 turn or less.

Its likely that the hinge depth is slightly different between the top and bottom so that the hinge is pulling the door in one direction.

Colonel Claptrap

Cheers for all the help lads.
Spirit level is slighly off.
I'm going to ask the guy who installed it to take a look.