michael803•6d agoProlific Poster

Old timer told me to always cut doors with the hinge side up. Called BS and tried it his way.

Helped a guy named Hank who's been framing since the 80s on a kitchen reno in Austin last month. He insisted I mark and cut all the prehung doors with the hinge side facing up or the jamb would bow. I thought he was just stuck in his ways so I did a few my normal way with the knob side up. Those doors I did my way all had a slight gap at the top corner when we hung them. Had to pull three of them back down and recut them. Anyone else run into this trick or did I just get lucky with an old pro?

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david_walker976d ago

Man thats wild, I had the exact same thing happen with an old carpenter named Mike.

val9746d ago

Idk about "the exact same thing" though. I mean, there's a lot of old carpenters named Mike out there so it's probably just a coincidence. Maybe it's just me but these stories always sound similar but the details never line up.

the_elizabeth6d ago

But don't you think that's exactly the problem though... you're looking for details to not match instead of noticing the pattern beneath them. I've heard three different versions of this same Mike story now, and every time it's about him showing up at dusk, fixing something that wasn't really broken, and leaving a wooden token behind. Sure the tokens are all different shapes and sizes but that's kinda the point, isn't it? The details shift but the core stays the same, which is what makes it creepy in the first place.