I used to think door hanger adjustments were a waste of time...

For the first few years in this trade, I honestly thought adjusting door hangers was a total scam. Like, I figured if the doors were closing, you were done, right? Then I got a callback on a job at a 6-story office building downtown about 4 months after I finished it. The doors were making this awful grinding noise and the customer was furious. I spent 2 hours digging into it, and finally realized the hanger brackets had shifted maybe half an inch over time. I tightened them up and aligned everything with a drop gauge, and the noise vanished. Now I take the extra 10 minutes to set hangers dead nuts on every install. Has anyone else found a trick for keeping those brackets from creeping after a few months?

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lewis.troy17d ago

Man that grinding sound is a nightmare, I've been there. One thing I don't see people talk about is using a dab of threadlocker blue on the bracket bolts before you torque them down. I started doing that a few years back and my callbacks for creeping hangers dropped to almost zero.

lopez.simon17d ago

Wait, is that actually a thing? I saw a video from some old timer in a basement shop who swore by threadlocker on hanger brackets but figured he was just stuck in his ways. I always just wing it with a dab of anti-seize for the rust factor, never thought about the creeping issue. Might have to try that blue stuff next time I replace a hanger, especially since I already get tired of chasing down those little shifts.

parkera2217d ago

Yeah, that "stuck in his ways" comment got a laugh out of me. I'm pretty sure I'm the old timer in someone else's basement shop video at this point, just with a lot more sawdust in my pockets. All joking aside, the blue threadlocker trick has saved my back on a few callbacks that would've involved crawling around an attic in July, which is about as fun as it sounds. That anti-seize you're using is probably helping with corrosion but it's basically giving those bolts a slip n slide, so giving the blue stuff a shot might save you a headache or two.