Shower Door Keeps Swinging Open

Specifically you need to check the hinges handles and latches.

Shower door keeps swinging open.

Remove the hinge pins if the door still won t stay open. The bent pin should keep the door from swinging open on its own. Swinging door adjust the frame of the door by loosening all of the frame screws including the handle screws. On shower doors typically the rollers will be on a hanger bracket that has a few holes in it or a long angled slot.

If you have a door that swings all the way open every time you leave it slightly ajar the door frame isn t plumb. Hit the hinge pin with a hammer. Repeated opening and closing rough handling and humidity can cause swinging shower doors to sag. Depending on where you position the roller in these holes or slot will adjust the height of the door.

Shower door scrapes the bottom of the shower pan edge when opening and closing shower door is loose and needs tightening for the above shower door repairs the fix usually has to do with tightening up things. When a shower door sags it is nearly impossible to close it snugly if at all. Shim the door edge using a two by four and wood shims. Your shower will have these brackets or some other set up but which ever the case may be there will be a way to adjust the roller.

Latch the door and have a helper steady it while you work. To learn how to keep a door open shim the door and knock out the upper hinge pin. Angle the blade of a large flathead screwdriver against the tip of the hinge pin and tap the base of the screwdriver to push the pins upward and out. Typically this sagging occurs on the door s handle side.