How To Fix a Door That Won't Latch- It's Simpler Than You Think!

This is the easiest way to fix a door that won't latch!

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[drock]

Been in my house for 5 years. That door has annoyed me the whole time. Just fixed it. Thank you!

[SuperKenndog]

Virtual beer for this man. Saved me a return trip to Home Depot. Only took 2 minutes. Salute

[RosaleinRed]

These are the first DIY videos I’ve ever watched that I actually felt like I could do, and then went and did! Thank you so much for this! I just went and did this to two doors in our house. Really enjoying your videos and your humor😄

[liz]

As a 50 something y/o female, I cannot tell you how helpful your videos are helping me to rectify the many issues I am having in my new older home! Thanks, I Love them!!!

[TrollArtist]

Finally fixed my door today, thank you for the tips. For anyone who doesn’t want to go buy a dremel, I cut a strip of sand paper and tightly wrapped it vertically around a chisel then ducked taped the ends so it stayed put. Worked perfectly for me and fixed the latch.

[lashedsuns]

I knew it was going to be a Dremel fix!

I just fixed the door not closing and then it stopped latching. I'll be picking up the bit at ACE this afternoon.

Thank you, sir!

[billyvision]

Thanks! Your video is 2 years old but it just help me to fix two doors that wouldn’t latch. Bought the Dremel and was fixed in 5 minutes.
THANK YOU!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[edbaldow]

Thanks for sharing such simple but life saving info at the same time. I was even considering changing lock. Problem solved in less than 3 min!

[andreastevenson]

Thank you thank you from the bottom of this 67year old heart. Great fix

[blondon]

It worked! I tried bending the hinge first, and that kind of helped, but filing down the strike plate did the trick. That door hasn't closed in years. Thanks!!

[JayThomasofficial]

perfect tutorial .. not a moment wasted and all good easy to follow entertaining info

[jnuiejo]

Great fix. You saved me money from hiring someone to do this. The family is super happy that they don’t have to lift the door up to latch it now.

[andyarkley]

Thanks so much! This worked! I was about ready to pull the plate off and then saw this video. 🙏

[mikefoodee]

If manufacturers made the strike plates with oblong holes they can easily be adjusted.

[vaqueros]

I tried some crazy stuff to fix mine and then found this video. Fixed it in two minutes. Thank you!

[heerujanweja]

Very useful, used a drill and had this done in under 5 mins. Thank you !

[tksnzge]

It was very cool to me to find you doing this. While I don't do repair work for others anymore, I thought thinking this up was such a life saver so again, too cool to see you doing the same thing lol

[lindagarten]

So glad I found your channel, you have helped me with so many issues in my home, thank you!

[meganwoehl]

Thank you. This didn't completely solve our problem but it made enough of a difference that our door can finally latch without just being pushed back open. It was just all of a sudden one day that our door no longer latched, right around the time the temperature started rising. We found we could get it to latch if we slammed it with all our might, but even then sometimes we would have to slam it 4 or 5 times to finally get it to latch. We didn't have a drimmel so we used a drill bit and ground a little from the bottom away...now we can close it, give it a slight lift, and it latches. We'll probably grind more away once we have a carbide bit, but for now at least we can sleep at night. So thank you for this video. Hopefully we won't be living in this place much longer. We've learned to not even call maintenance anymore as they either ignore the problems or make them worse.

[fishtexas]

Great video! Fixed in under 30 minutes using Dremel and a metal bit that came with the kit! Glad I found your video! Thank you so much