Have an exterior 6-0x34 inch door installed for remodel project just over 1 year ago. All glass, dual pane. The damn thing wont stay adjusted, I bring the door vertical adjustment up using the square screw head on each hinge, then within 2 days the gap drops and the bottom of the door starts to jam again. I’m adjusting based on how the owners manual says to do it by starting at bottom hinge and working up, but it just drops back down in a few days. The horizontal seems to stay adjusted. Any ideas what is wrong ?
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Does the door drag all across the bottom or just on the latch end?
it drags across the bottom mostly near the hinge side. I can get it perfect by adjusting, then within a day the adjustment is lost and it's back to dragging.
I've never worked with hinges that adjust like that, but thought perhaps the top hinge side might not have had a long screw put into the framing-hence-raise it up and it pulls that top part of the jamb away and then the drag on the latch side.
The heavier adjustable hinges like they and Andersen have on their patio french doors are easy and hold-mainly because you have to loosen the hinge itself b/4 any raising or lowering is done-then you lock in position by tightening the hinge.
These appear to roll up/down on some kind of cam-have you pulled the hinge to see how it works? Maybe there's something goofy that is causing it not to grip tight enough.
Have you contacted Marvin about this?
thanks.
Edit: Is there an adjustable threshold? If so, you could back that down and maybe achieve a solution.............
Sure sounds like the hinge is mechanically slipping.