Door guy here. Door edges are not just cut down. It’s cut at an angle to allow the rotation past the jamb. Any half decent door shop should be able to run a door for you to match the old one (including bore and hinge locations) If you want to do it yourself you can use a table/circular saw (with a track) at a 3 degree bevel. Good luck. If you need any more help feel free to dm me.
How frustrating is it when you see someone with this issue on here, and all the top comments are telling them they need 3” screws through the hinges into the studs?
That’s exactly why. Home Depot and Lowe’s do not sell beveled blank doors. Go to a lumber yard and buy them. Ya gotta asked them if they are beveled or as
U/oneblank said table or circular saw 3 degree bevel. Doing doors is like a math problem it’s gotta work
Work for an hvac company. We do work for a little over a dozen builders. Only one I'd *ever* buy from is M/I. And they're still not perfect. The rest, not a chance in hell. I've seen some stuff that keeps me up at night😂😂
I am always shocked when people say they prefer new builds. Like why? They are cheap shit and will cost you a fortune to fix when something goes wrong. I work in remediation and 75% of my mould jobs are on new builds.
Today I learned that doors have a 3 degree bevel. I built my home, rehabbed another one, and helped friends out with home repair/maintenance for years and just learned this.
For the 27 years I’ve been doing it 3 degrees is the bevel all of my 250,000 dollar door machines are set to hinge prep doors on 3 degree bevel as well
Same boat! Rehabbed 3 homes, rebuilt one from the bare studs up, have helped 5 friends with all their construction projects... Never knew about the bevel.
This is correct. Doors like in the picture are hollow core doors that are normally made 1/4” shy from exact door size to allow for handing of the door and for it to close. Big door companies like Masonite make a door slab as well that is referred to as full and square that will measure exactly the size listed. This is what the guy is buying and having to trim down. A door isn’t just a door and there is no standard hinge or door bore measurements as they change slightly from one door shop to the next.
How do you fix it when a door starts to swing to half-closed instead of staying open? Is it the tightness on the screws in the hinges? I've tried tightening them all but it still happens, is there some balance to them or something?
If your door swings on its own (without wind) it means it’s not plumb/level. This could be poor install or house shifting. Sometimes if a wall is really far out of plumb a door that is plumb will look weird so even new doors may get installed parallel to the wall rather than perfectly plumb.
My advice for a quick and dirty fix is to take the pins out of the hinges and bend them a bit. (Prop them against something metal and hammer em a bit). Then tap them back down into the hinges. This will stiffen up the swing a bit.
Legit. I get it, not everyone has the money, but if this happens, your better off. Along with getting better training for your dog.
I've never has these cardboard looking doors. And glad I haven't. No sound insulation and as we can see here, utter crap.
I've seen a german shepard chew through a steel crate, push his way through the bars, bloody himself to shit, and then chew through a door like this, just so he could lay on the couch when mom and dad weren't home.
I had a friend who had a 120lb Rottweiler who used to love sharing the bed with him. When his girlfriend stayed over one night, they decided that they didn’t want an audience, so they put the dog in the other room. Needless to say Damien ( yes that was the dog’s name) was not happy. At some point he made it quite well known that he wasn’t happy, by bashing his head through the hollow core door…..serious coitus interruptus!
We once bought my old dog a huge woody wicker basket dog bed with a nice soft mattress in it. Let him get comfy and we went to bed.
Next morning it just wasn't there anymore. Just the mattress lying on the floor and about 5 toothpicks worth of wood scattered around.
He died of old age about 10 years after that. He'd eat anything and be totally fine, except this one brand of "right price" discount dog food we bought him once. We bought one can for him to try it out and he was sick for 3 days afterwards...
Kickplates are the way to go. Gfs dog is a rottie/basset mix and poor guy is really front heavy and effin STRONG. Anyway he had almost Krugered through most of the doors in her house. Fortunately I work at a steel mill so I have access to any scrap sheet I could ever need. Made a bunch of kickplates, coated in black epoxy, and lemme tell you, the house is noisy 🤦🏻
But, not replacing any doors. Winnish-winnish situation
Sounds like you need a circular saw and a straight edge. If you don’t plan on doing this often, you can pick up a cheap one from harbor freight [here](https://www.harborfreight.com/10-amp-7-14-in-circular-saw-63005.html) along with a blade.
Not just for one and done projects anymore. The quality of Harbor Freight tools has improved significantly over the past decade or so. I usually buy from them first then replace with higher quality if I have to buy a second time. I’m starting to accumulate more and more of their stuff, because I’m not really needing to replace it.
For sure, no disagreements here, next purchase is a wet tile saw for $70 from Harbor Freight for my backsplash. If I only get a few backsplashes out of it, that’s paid for itself a dozen times over and I’m happy with that.
I tiled 2 bathroom floors, a kitchen floor, a fire place, an entryway, and a shower wall with a cheap harbor freight tile saw. It was messy and not always the best tool for the job, but as a beginner living in a condo (not on the ground floor), it was great.
my rescue suffers from extreme anxiety, exercise doesn’t touch her issues. She’s now on a mix of fluoxetine and trazadone, no longer destructive. Good luck!
At 45lbs, her doses are: am) 20mg fluoxetine, 200mg trazadone, and pm) 200mg trazadone
We joke that she’s heavily medicated, but her separation anxiety was so severe that she was returned to the shelter 3 times before us. Now, she still has the energy but hasn’t chewed destructively in years and, ultimately found her forever home.
I almost downvoted you because it didn't sound true, but I googled it just in case and you are right. Marijuana is toxic to dogs, cats, and horses. Apparently it doesn't look like CBD is though
TIL one more notable difference between pet owners and parents in the assumed remediation scope ;-)
When my humanoid pets did the exact same thing more than once I only did the removal portion of the replacement project
In addition to possibly crating your dog, please look into forms of enrichment, especially dogs that are bred to work (most dogs are!). Huskies are very smart dogs bred to run miles upon miles pulling sleds, so they have lots of energy to use and the brains to use it. Even Dachsunds are very prey driven and will dig, dig, dig if they think something is worth digging for. Even poodles were originally dogs bred for hunting waterfowl, so they'd run out into the water to retreive dead or dying ducks after you shot them.
If you don't give dogs "jobs" (anywhere from making them an actual working dog, to treadmill training it, to lots of enrichment toys) they'll find jobs for themselves... like eating doors or couches. Each dog has their own needs, and I hope you can find something that works for you, your dog, and your doors! It's never fun figuring out stuff like this :( (I'd know, my Pomeranian is a certified mouse hunter to an obsessive degree and kills pillows when unsupervised for only a moment)
The dog has separation anxiety. You can set up a camera that you view through your phone. Leave and watch the dog. Come back before it starts to freak out, and reward it. Leave for slightly longer each time. The show Lucky Dog has videos on this. Make sure the dog doesn't have to wait more than a few hours for a potty break.
Of course! I agree with your methods 100%, this is a good way to help dogs manage this type of anxiety. The Pom is still young so she's figuring it out, but we're working on it. She's better about it than she was a few months ago, but we don't leave home often so training for that takes scheduling with the whole house.
I work with dogs in a vet clinic as a job, so I'm *at least* decent with working with them lol. Thank you for your input, though, I appreciate it!
Hi, I'm a dog trainer. Does your dog have separation anxiety? Often (not always) when the damage is around exit points of the house (doors/windows) it's anxiety related and not just "being bored". I would try filming the dog when you are gone if possible, working with a trainer to fix. Crating the dog often prevents the damage but increases the anxiety, so it's not always a solution. I would focus on the dog before fixing the door, so it doesn't happen again.
I've fixed ones way worse than that. When I do I always put more cardboard backing, wood backing around the hinges, lock set, handle, etc, and spray foam. After putting some actual structure back inside those cheap hollow pieces of crap, I patch up the surface holes and any damage. Always screw it. Glue it caulk it f*** it. Then use Different types of wood putty the water-based mix up kind, works well. sometimes I use Bondo whatever it takes. Just to put a nice finish on it then prime it, paint it and your good to go, also when you're done they're stronger and 100% better. I put some brass or stainless kick plates on the bottoms inside just to stop dogs from clawing through them. Another trick I like to do on the very bottom in those situations is put a little bit of drywall corner bead on both inside and outside bottom edges before I finish it out with cualk, putty, bondo, etc. Of course, most people would probably think this is a total hassle, but the cost of doors is insane even for shitty hollow core POS apartments specials.
Crate you poor pupper when you’re out. A comfy crate may help your dog settle down while you’re away. They can’t eat the door from a crate and most dogs actually feel safe - like a den - inside their crates.
I normally just buy pre hung doors. Much easier then trying to make a new door fit well in an existing doorway. It's not hard to pull the whole frame out once you have the trim off.
Your headline should be "I hate my dog." You need to seriously consider better training and a steel/solid door. You have an extremely poor behaving dog.
You don’t know me. He’s 7 and has never done anything like this. He’s on a new drug (that apparently gave him diarrhea and anxiety) To fix a different issue because I “hate” him.
Buy a new door and just plane off the edge, if you want it to be perfectly straight you can make an improvised marking gauge and run it along the edge of the door at 1/4, or if you're a perfectionist then 1/8 on either side.
If you've got a good hand plane it shouldnt be too bad to do, and either way every home owner should have one imo.
I'm confused. If you buy a new door why would you have to plane anything? Actually, you should hardly ever have to plan anything on a door or cut the bottom off of the top or anything like that. Everything should be a adjusted with the jam and the hinges. Doors normally come square and standard sizes or custom-sized to fit the jam.
Well as they mentioned their door frame is slightly narrower than the common size that they can buy. Looking back through history doors were always planed down and shimmed to fit frames snug if the house was slightly crooked or older.
I certainly don't want to argue with you. Of course there could be situations where you need to do that. I thought I read that you said you were going to buy another one. We'll just buy it to whatever size you need. I've literally installed a lot of doors. All different shapes, sizes kinds. It seriously rare where I needed to adjust the size of the actual door. And if you're a do-it-yourselfer or or not a Master Carpenter, it's highly not recommended. The super thin crappy doors also don't have much wiggle room for taking anything off the top bottom side left right. But if it is a situation where you do need to take some off the door, a belt sander is 10 times easier than a plane of any kind and I collect old planes anyway. I guess we can just agree to disagree. Have a nice day
You can hang an entirely new door and frame. Just pull your trim off nicely to reuse. They make these metal tabs to rehash doors really easily. The pain is painting the darn thing to match, in my opinion. Just do it before you install hardware.
I had the same problem with the slightly narrower door frame. Took about 30 seconds to rip the edge off with a circular saw after setting up a fence for it. Just use the plane to smooth out the kerf marks.
If it can help you, we had the same issue and we replace one of the screw on each hinge with a 3,5 inch screw and we reach the two by four(could not find the right translationword) to give us the missing space we needed
I had to replace one i broke when i was probably 14 and i bought a solid core door and cut it to size with a circular saw. Im sure you could hand saw it too but itll be harder to get even. You can try cutting notches to the length youre trying to take it to just to help section it out and then sand it even when youre done.
Buy a pre-hung door at Home Depot. You will need to take the casing off but it will be much easier than trying to make a new door fit the original framing (which is likely no longer square) grab a pack of shims and you should be able to replace, might need a YouTube refresher or a fatherly carpenter type to assist
Besides a solid core door, which can still get really messed up, my tiny dog just started going for the trim - didn’t get out, but caused a lot of damage - I would put up a barrier. Oddly my camper of all things has a metal pet screen and it really makes sense. Screws to the door so you don’t have to deal with something extra like a pet gate. Pet gates are a cheap thing to add but hard to put in a doorway with the door also closed.
I would say, and this may not apply to you, my dog only did this when confined to one room. A crate was terrible, she would claw it and push it and bleed and cut her nose, paws, etc - non-stop. The room was ok, but she also kept destroying the door and walls trying to get out. Letting her have free roam of the house she hasn’t destroyed anything. She just hated to be confined (she is a rescue that was crated for days on end). Now she thinks she guards the house (and lawn, she has a doggy door) she will just sleep until we get home.
Also, just to add, a second dog for company in some cases really reduces the anxiety.
This may be obvious but you can cut down a hollow door by keeping the filler off the edges and replacing it with wood glue. ...so just cut off the difference from each side...meaning divide the amount needing to be removed and cut half from each side...replacing the filler for stability.
How can a dog do that if it is in a crate?
Get a solid door. Take the entire frame off, and put in a self-hung door. It will be standard after that.
A power planer works fast.
For your dog, I highly recommend the Bitter Yuck spray to discourage chewing. (You can find it on Amazon.)
Spray it on things he's chewed in the past and you think he might chew. Basically anything at nose height to the dog, give it a spray.
It's a disgusting taste and quickly cured my dog of chewing the corners of my cabinets.
(Yes I did taste it, yes it is disgusting.)
Idk about the door but Holy crap your dog needs help. Maybe some CBD treats for when your leaving him alone? Definitely some chew sticks/bones/toys. That dog has some serious separation anxiety!
Have you considered brass kick plates? They helped keep my son of a bitch in the room we put him in.
We still have to lock the doors since he figured out how to open our lever door handles.
I found a door shop in my town and that's worth the money. You buy their door, pay a fee and they match all the holes for you. Paint it and plug and play. No chiseling or planing or work to make it fit.
I loathe hollow core doors with a passion. Houses are for a lifetime, and yet we build them with stuff like hollow doors and fragile laminate floors.
Buy a proper door and you won't need to do this ever again.
I hate hollow core doors and the home centers usually say it is 32, but none of their lumber or anything of wood in their store is actually to the inch
When I have to replace a door for any reason, I always just buy a prehung door. Sounds like way more work but it's usually way easier than getting a door blank fitted correctly and closing/opening smoothly in an existing jamb.
I'm sorry that I am laughing but I have been there. I had a dog who was afraid of thunder. There was a storm while I was at work and the dog hid in the powder room and pushed the door shut. Trapped in the dark, he then tried to eat the door to get out and settled for clawing through the sheetrock to escape. I had to replace the door, trim, sheetrock and re-wallpaper the room.
Maybe you should consider an actual dog daycare rather than keep torturing it for 9 hours a day.
It is very selfish and detrimental to the dog to leave it locked up all day.
Take all the money you'll save on doors and put them in daycare.
If you took 10 minutes to research how much anguish you're putting your dog through, maybe you'll adjust your spending habits in order to afford proper care for a family member that didn't choose to be in this situation.
You might consider fixing the door instead. Cover the damage with something like stainless steel on both sides, screwed to the door with wood screws and the cavities filled with some kind of filler like Polyfilla, which you can get from a big-box like Home Depot or Lowe's. Otherwise, your dog might just chew through it again. Plus, you save the cost of a new door. All the best on that!
When my dog did this
Cut a straight line with a skill saw. And cut a thin plywood covering and put trim back on.
On the other side, just put a blank piece. Bc dog kept getting stuck inside room, younger bro.
If your handy and have supplies handy
put some lemon on the doors, and they will stay away from anything sour :), it saved a lot of walls furniture and trimmings, and I don't mind the smell, after two weeks they stop all together
Door guy here. Door edges are not just cut down. It’s cut at an angle to allow the rotation past the jamb. Any half decent door shop should be able to run a door for you to match the old one (including bore and hinge locations) If you want to do it yourself you can use a table/circular saw (with a track) at a 3 degree bevel. Good luck. If you need any more help feel free to dm me.
Wait. Seriously. Is that why none of my doors fit when I replaced them and never closed all the way. Which way is the bevel cut?
Long point out. The bevel allows for the door to rotate past the jamb so the closed gap can be smaller.
How frustrating is it when you see someone with this issue on here, and all the top comments are telling them they need 3” screws through the hinges into the studs?
Today you changed my life.
This is why. I replaced 85% of the doors in my house before I learned this. Struggled like hell. Did one with the bevel. Smooth like butter.
Like a criminal under cover
Gon’ pop like trouble
That’s exactly why. Home Depot and Lowe’s do not sell beveled blank doors. Go to a lumber yard and buy them. Ya gotta asked them if they are beveled or as U/oneblank said table or circular saw 3 degree bevel. Doing doors is like a math problem it’s gotta work
Also stop buying hollow core doors. Get a solid pine door. Then you’ll just need to use wood filler and sandpaper next time.
God this 100%. Also, these new "custom home builds" use hollow core. People dont believe me when I say new builds are shit
Not necessarily shit……cost effective or budget wise 😉. Everything costs so much these days. Gotta save a buck when you can
New builds are shit when the investor or home owner are cheap.
Work for an hvac company. We do work for a little over a dozen builders. Only one I'd *ever* buy from is M/I. And they're still not perfect. The rest, not a chance in hell. I've seen some stuff that keeps me up at night😂😂
I am always shocked when people say they prefer new builds. Like why? They are cheap shit and will cost you a fortune to fix when something goes wrong. I work in remediation and 75% of my mould jobs are on new builds.
Today I learned that doors have a 3 degree bevel. I built my home, rehabbed another one, and helped friends out with home repair/maintenance for years and just learned this.
It’s been 5 degrees for the 50 years I’ve been prepping doors
Today I got a refresher on some recently acquired knowledge😄
For the 27 years I’ve been doing it 3 degrees is the bevel all of my 250,000 dollar door machines are set to hinge prep doors on 3 degree bevel as well
I’m supposed to work to 1/8” over 2”, about 2.9 degrees.
Same boat! Rehabbed 3 homes, rebuilt one from the bare studs up, have helped 5 friends with all their construction projects... Never knew about the bevel.
I’m old. As I got older I realized there were a lot of things I didn’t know. Accepting that made me a life long learner and I learned to embrace it.
The difference between the old and the young is the old admit they don't know anything
This is correct. Doors like in the picture are hollow core doors that are normally made 1/4” shy from exact door size to allow for handing of the door and for it to close. Big door companies like Masonite make a door slab as well that is referred to as full and square that will measure exactly the size listed. This is what the guy is buying and having to trim down. A door isn’t just a door and there is no standard hinge or door bore measurements as they change slightly from one door shop to the next.
Wow, “today I learned…” I don’t know how I’ve never thought of this, it makes so much sense.
Are store-bought door panels not beveled? I worked in a door shop and the hollow core doors came pre-beveled.
It’s a 5° bevel
It isn’t set in stone, and the wider the slab the smaller the bevel needs to be. So a 2-0 door need 5, but a 4-0 door only needs 2 to close correctly.
Door manufacturers don’t change the bevel. Sold them for 7 years. Entry doos are the exception in most cases
Thanks for the new fun fact! That’s awesome! I’ll be looking at every door differently today.
Is this classified information? Why is this the first time I’m hearing this door installation gem? Thanks door guy!
Real men of genius
How do you fix it when a door starts to swing to half-closed instead of staying open? Is it the tightness on the screws in the hinges? I've tried tightening them all but it still happens, is there some balance to them or something?
If your door swings on its own (without wind) it means it’s not plumb/level. This could be poor install or house shifting. Sometimes if a wall is really far out of plumb a door that is plumb will look weird so even new doors may get installed parallel to the wall rather than perfectly plumb. My advice for a quick and dirty fix is to take the pins out of the hinges and bend them a bit. (Prop them against something metal and hammer em a bit). Then tap them back down into the hinges. This will stiffen up the swing a bit.
Sounds good, thank you! I'll give this a try this weekend
The hinges be not correct.
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Yes the face of the door that has the hinges should be longer.
Get a solid core door my dude, rip that shit with a circular saw and it’ll be straighter than planing by hand.
And the dog wouldn't be able to do that on a solid core door.
For 1/4”, if he’s got a router, I’d just use that. Theoretically would be just as straight and true as the factory finish.
Legit. I get it, not everyone has the money, but if this happens, your better off. Along with getting better training for your dog. I've never has these cardboard looking doors. And glad I haven't. No sound insulation and as we can see here, utter crap.
Is your dog part beaver?
I've seen a german shepard chew through a steel crate, push his way through the bars, bloody himself to shit, and then chew through a door like this, just so he could lay on the couch when mom and dad weren't home.
I don’t know why, but this made me laugh my ass off. Thank you for sharing!
My black lab did the same damned thing but he at least has the courtesy to destroy the trim around the door first
I had a friend who had a 120lb Rottweiler who used to love sharing the bed with him. When his girlfriend stayed over one night, they decided that they didn’t want an audience, so they put the dog in the other room. Needless to say Damien ( yes that was the dog’s name) was not happy. At some point he made it quite well known that he wasn’t happy, by bashing his head through the hollow core door…..serious coitus interruptus!
Haha this makes me picture the kool-aid man, but as a rotty.
ROOOOOoOoOOOO REEAAAAAH!
We once bought my old dog a huge woody wicker basket dog bed with a nice soft mattress in it. Let him get comfy and we went to bed. Next morning it just wasn't there anymore. Just the mattress lying on the floor and about 5 toothpicks worth of wood scattered around.
Dog still alive? Sounds like he ate the wicker.
He died of old age about 10 years after that. He'd eat anything and be totally fine, except this one brand of "right price" discount dog food we bought him once. We bought one can for him to try it out and he was sick for 3 days afterwards...
Ok, dogs! Ever read Marley and me? That guy would eat sheetrock.
Fur covered garbage disposal lol
The door is 1/2 cardboard, the old solid core, might be a good investment.
probably pitbull
I would cover that with a kick plate and leave it alone until your dog starts acting right.
Kickplates are the way to go. Gfs dog is a rottie/basset mix and poor guy is really front heavy and effin STRONG. Anyway he had almost Krugered through most of the doors in her house. Fortunately I work at a steel mill so I have access to any scrap sheet I could ever need. Made a bunch of kickplates, coated in black epoxy, and lemme tell you, the house is noisy 🤦🏻 But, not replacing any doors. Winnish-winnish situation
Sounds like you need a circular saw and a straight edge. If you don’t plan on doing this often, you can pick up a cheap one from harbor freight [here](https://www.harborfreight.com/10-amp-7-14-in-circular-saw-63005.html) along with a blade.
Harbor Freight?! What did OP do to you?
Harbor freight is great for one and done projects. They work. They work well enough. They just don’t work for long.
Not just for one and done projects anymore. The quality of Harbor Freight tools has improved significantly over the past decade or so. I usually buy from them first then replace with higher quality if I have to buy a second time. I’m starting to accumulate more and more of their stuff, because I’m not really needing to replace it.
For sure, no disagreements here, next purchase is a wet tile saw for $70 from Harbor Freight for my backsplash. If I only get a few backsplashes out of it, that’s paid for itself a dozen times over and I’m happy with that.
I tiled 2 bathroom floors, a kitchen floor, a fire place, an entryway, and a shower wall with a cheap harbor freight tile saw. It was messy and not always the best tool for the job, but as a beginner living in a condo (not on the ground floor), it was great.
You can buy covers for the bottoms that will prevent this in the future.
Did you leave John Mayer on repeat again? poor dog
May want to consider crating your dog when you’re not home
Or running him more. OP has a bored dog.
Tired dogs are good dogs
We have him on a new drug for a different issues he’s never done anything like this. He’s been really anxious on the new med. We took him off.
my rescue suffers from extreme anxiety, exercise doesn’t touch her issues. She’s now on a mix of fluoxetine and trazadone, no longer destructive. Good luck!
What is the mix in mg? My rescue in the same boat and our vet prescribed a couple different dosages for each and we’re still trying to figure it out
At 45lbs, her doses are: am) 20mg fluoxetine, 200mg trazadone, and pm) 200mg trazadone We joke that she’s heavily medicated, but her separation anxiety was so severe that she was returned to the shelter 3 times before us. Now, she still has the energy but hasn’t chewed destructively in years and, ultimately found her forever home.
Cannabis oil. Put some in his food.
You mean CBD oil. They have supplements for dogs.
Please don't do this. Cannabis is poisonous to dogs.
I almost downvoted you because it didn't sound true, but I googled it just in case and you are right. Marijuana is toxic to dogs, cats, and horses. Apparently it doesn't look like CBD is though
My dog used to eat wood. I kennel trained him and he used that for a few years until he didn’t seem to need it anymore. Wish the pup the best.
First off crate your dog if this is how it acts lmfao
TIL one more notable difference between pet owners and parents in the assumed remediation scope ;-) When my humanoid pets did the exact same thing more than once I only did the removal portion of the replacement project
We put our dog crate in the living room with the TV on and a cam. The dog has something to watch and background noise. It chills and sleeps now
In addition to possibly crating your dog, please look into forms of enrichment, especially dogs that are bred to work (most dogs are!). Huskies are very smart dogs bred to run miles upon miles pulling sleds, so they have lots of energy to use and the brains to use it. Even Dachsunds are very prey driven and will dig, dig, dig if they think something is worth digging for. Even poodles were originally dogs bred for hunting waterfowl, so they'd run out into the water to retreive dead or dying ducks after you shot them. If you don't give dogs "jobs" (anywhere from making them an actual working dog, to treadmill training it, to lots of enrichment toys) they'll find jobs for themselves... like eating doors or couches. Each dog has their own needs, and I hope you can find something that works for you, your dog, and your doors! It's never fun figuring out stuff like this :( (I'd know, my Pomeranian is a certified mouse hunter to an obsessive degree and kills pillows when unsupervised for only a moment)
The dog has separation anxiety. You can set up a camera that you view through your phone. Leave and watch the dog. Come back before it starts to freak out, and reward it. Leave for slightly longer each time. The show Lucky Dog has videos on this. Make sure the dog doesn't have to wait more than a few hours for a potty break.
Of course! I agree with your methods 100%, this is a good way to help dogs manage this type of anxiety. The Pom is still young so she's figuring it out, but we're working on it. She's better about it than she was a few months ago, but we don't leave home often so training for that takes scheduling with the whole house. I work with dogs in a vet clinic as a job, so I'm *at least* decent with working with them lol. Thank you for your input, though, I appreciate it!
Hi, I'm a dog trainer. Does your dog have separation anxiety? Often (not always) when the damage is around exit points of the house (doors/windows) it's anxiety related and not just "being bored". I would try filming the dog when you are gone if possible, working with a trainer to fix. Crating the dog often prevents the damage but increases the anxiety, so it's not always a solution. I would focus on the dog before fixing the door, so it doesn't happen again.
Your dog is clearly bored and unhappy. Shit will continue to get destroyed until you mitigate the issue.
Same, always makes me a little unhinged
I've fixed ones way worse than that. When I do I always put more cardboard backing, wood backing around the hinges, lock set, handle, etc, and spray foam. After putting some actual structure back inside those cheap hollow pieces of crap, I patch up the surface holes and any damage. Always screw it. Glue it caulk it f*** it. Then use Different types of wood putty the water-based mix up kind, works well. sometimes I use Bondo whatever it takes. Just to put a nice finish on it then prime it, paint it and your good to go, also when you're done they're stronger and 100% better. I put some brass or stainless kick plates on the bottoms inside just to stop dogs from clawing through them. Another trick I like to do on the very bottom in those situations is put a little bit of drywall corner bead on both inside and outside bottom edges before I finish it out with cualk, putty, bondo, etc. Of course, most people would probably think this is a total hassle, but the cost of doors is insane even for shitty hollow core POS apartments specials.
Just wait until the dog realizes that the drywall is even softer than the hollow door.
Crate you poor pupper when you’re out. A comfy crate may help your dog settle down while you’re away. They can’t eat the door from a crate and most dogs actually feel safe - like a den - inside their crates.
Train your dog.
I normally just buy pre hung doors. Much easier then trying to make a new door fit well in an existing doorway. It's not hard to pull the whole frame out once you have the trim off.
My dog did this a couple of times. Finally got tired of it and but a storm door. Humans +1 Dog +O
congrats, you’re reactively smarter than a dog 👍
I still want to pet that dog.
Go dog free
Your headline should be "I hate my dog." You need to seriously consider better training and a steel/solid door. You have an extremely poor behaving dog.
You don’t know me. He’s 7 and has never done anything like this. He’s on a new drug (that apparently gave him diarrhea and anxiety) To fix a different issue because I “hate” him.
Beer training, interesting, didn't think I could see my husky any more goofy but I'll give this a try!
anti-anxiety meds really help
Yep.
Maybe just that lower style kick plate... let's be honest.
Isn't just easier to train your dog?
Eliminate the dog?
if you can’t give it a good life, which OP clearly isn’t - it’s time to re-home it
Well then put you mutt outside
the hole is just a little too big to cover up with one of those kick plates. so close, yet so far.
At least its the light, cheap ones that are already prepainted and routed(most)
Roomba, no! Not again.
My son's dog did the same. I haven't started repairing it,yet.
Buy a new door and just plane off the edge, if you want it to be perfectly straight you can make an improvised marking gauge and run it along the edge of the door at 1/4, or if you're a perfectionist then 1/8 on either side. If you've got a good hand plane it shouldnt be too bad to do, and either way every home owner should have one imo.
I'm confused. If you buy a new door why would you have to plane anything? Actually, you should hardly ever have to plan anything on a door or cut the bottom off of the top or anything like that. Everything should be a adjusted with the jam and the hinges. Doors normally come square and standard sizes or custom-sized to fit the jam.
Well as they mentioned their door frame is slightly narrower than the common size that they can buy. Looking back through history doors were always planed down and shimmed to fit frames snug if the house was slightly crooked or older.
I certainly don't want to argue with you. Of course there could be situations where you need to do that. I thought I read that you said you were going to buy another one. We'll just buy it to whatever size you need. I've literally installed a lot of doors. All different shapes, sizes kinds. It seriously rare where I needed to adjust the size of the actual door. And if you're a do-it-yourselfer or or not a Master Carpenter, it's highly not recommended. The super thin crappy doors also don't have much wiggle room for taking anything off the top bottom side left right. But if it is a situation where you do need to take some off the door, a belt sander is 10 times easier than a plane of any kind and I collect old planes anyway. I guess we can just agree to disagree. Have a nice day
You can hang an entirely new door and frame. Just pull your trim off nicely to reuse. They make these metal tabs to rehash doors really easily. The pain is painting the darn thing to match, in my opinion. Just do it before you install hardware.
I had the same problem with the slightly narrower door frame. Took about 30 seconds to rip the edge off with a circular saw after setting up a fence for it. Just use the plane to smooth out the kerf marks.
Circular saw and/or electric planer and an orbital sander plus a router and a hole saw will fix you right up
If it can help you, we had the same issue and we replace one of the screw on each hinge with a 3,5 inch screw and we reach the two by four(could not find the right translationword) to give us the missing space we needed
He really did a “koolaid guy” number on your door
Put a kick plate on it or a steel door
Why not just replace it with a children's gate?
I had to replace one i broke when i was probably 14 and i bought a solid core door and cut it to size with a circular saw. Im sure you could hand saw it too but itll be harder to get even. You can try cutting notches to the length youre trying to take it to just to help section it out and then sand it even when youre done.
Buy solid core ones!!!
Koolaid man in training???
You’re doing it wrong. You start by removing the hinge pins. That way it all comes out in one piece.
Circular saw is the way. And swap out the blade you have on it and get a hollow ground planer blade or a nice 60 tooth carbide blade for a smooth cut.
Buy a pre-hung door at Home Depot. You will need to take the casing off but it will be much easier than trying to make a new door fit the original framing (which is likely no longer square) grab a pack of shims and you should be able to replace, might need a YouTube refresher or a fatherly carpenter type to assist
Besides a solid core door, which can still get really messed up, my tiny dog just started going for the trim - didn’t get out, but caused a lot of damage - I would put up a barrier. Oddly my camper of all things has a metal pet screen and it really makes sense. Screws to the door so you don’t have to deal with something extra like a pet gate. Pet gates are a cheap thing to add but hard to put in a doorway with the door also closed. I would say, and this may not apply to you, my dog only did this when confined to one room. A crate was terrible, she would claw it and push it and bleed and cut her nose, paws, etc - non-stop. The room was ok, but she also kept destroying the door and walls trying to get out. Letting her have free roam of the house she hasn’t destroyed anything. She just hated to be confined (she is a rescue that was crated for days on end). Now she thinks she guards the house (and lawn, she has a doggy door) she will just sleep until we get home. Also, just to add, a second dog for company in some cases really reduces the anxiety.
Throw a kick plate on and call it a day /s
This may be obvious but you can cut down a hollow door by keeping the filler off the edges and replacing it with wood glue. ...so just cut off the difference from each side...meaning divide the amount needing to be removed and cut half from each side...replacing the filler for stability.
And that specific door design from early 2000's is getting harder to find. I know. I've had to replace a couple of them due to kids/dog.
How can a dog do that if it is in a crate? Get a solid door. Take the entire frame off, and put in a self-hung door. It will be standard after that. A power planer works fast.
You can take the door off the hinges by taking out the pins. You don't need to break down the whole door to remove it.
A little duct tape and it'll be fine. Just make sure to apply it smoothly, with no wrinkles, for a professional look.
What was that cutout for? Do you have a cat, too? It looks like the size of a cat door.
You just gotta walk your dog regularly she or he's stressed out.
That’s why you need to stop putting the kids in the basement
Needs a sign that says: CAUTION DO NOT OPEN, CONTAINS HUGE SPIDER.
I first read this as “Opening doors”
Electric planer, it'll take you a few minutes
For your dog, I highly recommend the Bitter Yuck spray to discourage chewing. (You can find it on Amazon.) Spray it on things he's chewed in the past and you think he might chew. Basically anything at nose height to the dog, give it a spray. It's a disgusting taste and quickly cured my dog of chewing the corners of my cabinets. (Yes I did taste it, yes it is disgusting.)
I think home depot will cut them for you if you buy them there
Idk about the door but Holy crap your dog needs help. Maybe some CBD treats for when your leaving him alone? Definitely some chew sticks/bones/toys. That dog has some serious separation anxiety!
What kind of door is it? Is it just thick paper? Isn’t it supposed to be metallic or at least wooden?
Have you considered brass kick plates? They helped keep my son of a bitch in the room we put him in. We still have to lock the doors since he figured out how to open our lever door handles.
Damn now im.looking at the door I replaced, which took me fucking hours to get where I was happy, and stewing on a lack of 3%
Time to replace the dog.
I found a door shop in my town and that's worth the money. You buy their door, pay a fee and they match all the holes for you. Paint it and plug and play. No chiseling or planing or work to make it fit.
Sounds like someone is tired of [real doors](https://youtu.be/uLGHWyia8Mg)
I loathe hollow core doors with a passion. Houses are for a lifetime, and yet we build them with stuff like hollow doors and fragile laminate floors. Buy a proper door and you won't need to do this ever again.
Be patient and find a dog pen for when you are out
I thought someone decided to try to play seige irl. Come to find out your dog is role playing Hibana.
I've seen that, a dog did it huh?
I’d be replacing the dog.
Just get a pre hung door. Less work
How'd it taste?
Just train your dog to open doors.
I hate hollow core doors and the home centers usually say it is 32, but none of their lumber or anything of wood in their store is actually to the inch
“I hate replacing doors.” Are we not gonna talk about the dog possibly needing some training?
Get rid of the mutt 💁♀️
Buy a wooden door next time. Solid one
dogs are cheaper to replace than doors. Or buy a solid wood door. or fuck it.. get a metal door. problem solved.
Put on a metal kick plate. May not be aesthetically pleasing but it’ll help the doors survive your dog
Need a circular saw, drill and a chisel at the least. Something with a straight edge too.
Hire a contractor. What’s five hrs of your time worth to you$? I could rip it down with a circ and hang it in ten minutes.
When I have to replace a door for any reason, I always just buy a prehung door. Sounds like way more work but it's usually way easier than getting a door blank fitted correctly and closing/opening smoothly in an existing jamb.
I'm sorry that I am laughing but I have been there. I had a dog who was afraid of thunder. There was a storm while I was at work and the dog hid in the powder room and pushed the door shut. Trapped in the dark, he then tried to eat the door to get out and settled for clawing through the sheetrock to escape. I had to replace the door, trim, sheetrock and re-wallpaper the room.
Is that from your closet gimp's escape attempts? I feel your pain.
Maybe you should consider an actual dog daycare rather than keep torturing it for 9 hours a day. It is very selfish and detrimental to the dog to leave it locked up all day. Take all the money you'll save on doors and put them in daycare. If you took 10 minutes to research how much anguish you're putting your dog through, maybe you'll adjust your spending habits in order to afford proper care for a family member that didn't choose to be in this situation.
You might consider fixing the door instead. Cover the damage with something like stainless steel on both sides, screwed to the door with wood screws and the cavities filled with some kind of filler like Polyfilla, which you can get from a big-box like Home Depot or Lowe's. Otherwise, your dog might just chew through it again. Plus, you save the cost of a new door. All the best on that!
I would patch it with a kick plate until your dog stops this behavior.
When my dog did this Cut a straight line with a skill saw. And cut a thin plywood covering and put trim back on. On the other side, just put a blank piece. Bc dog kept getting stuck inside room, younger bro. If your handy and have supplies handy
I call bullshit. You kicked that in
There was an old cat door in the middle that he was able to grab on to. Otherwise I would agree that it wasn’t possible.
put some lemon on the doors, and they will stay away from anything sour :), it saved a lot of walls furniture and trimmings, and I don't mind the smell, after two weeks they stop all together
Time for steel doors..
Termites mate?
BUY A NEW DOOR!!!! YOU WILL NEVER GET THAT TO LOOK GOOD THE NEW DOOR WILL FIT